Those blues are calling again andFrasierwill answer the call as a sequel has been announced on Paramount+.Kelsey Grammeris also set to return as the lovably pretentious psychiatrist.
Deadline reportsthat the series revival has been greenlit by the streaming service, and will likely be given a ten-episode order. The show will see Frasier Crane relocate to a new city, where he’ll be surrounded by a new cast of characters; hisFrasierco-stars are not expected to be regulars, but may guest-star. The situation is akin to the transition betweenCheersandFrasier, where Crane departed to a new city. TheFrasierrevival has been in the works for some time;Grammer floated a rebootwith CBS back in 2018, and itresurfaced early last yearbefore finally being greenlit.
Haughty psychiatrist Frasier Crane first appeared on the third-season premiere of NBC’sCheersin 1984, where he served as a romantic rival to Sam Malone (Ted Danson) for the affections of Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). Grammer remained as part of the show’s cast of Boston barflies even after Long’s departure, and Frasier was eventually married off to icy psychiatrist Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth), with whom he had a son, Frederick. AfterCheersended in 1993, he was given his own spinoff,Frasier, where a newly-divorced Frasier relocated to his hometown of Seattle, reuniting with his brother Niles (David Hyde-Pierce), his father Martin (the lateJohn Mahoney), and Martin’s live-in caretaker, Daphne (Jane Leeves). There, he pursued a career as a call-in radio psychiatrist, assisted by his producer Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin). Most of Grammer’s Cheers co-stars eventually guest-starred on the spinoff including Neuwirth who reprised her role as Lilith.
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LikeCheers,Frasierwas a hit, and ran for eleven seasons, ending in 2004. Grammer’s twenty years of playing Crane tied him withJames ArnessonGunsmokefor the longest continuous time playing a character on prime-time American television; the record has since been broken by the cast ofThe SimpsonsandMariska HargitayonLaw and Order: Special Victims Unit.
Veteran sitcom writer-producersChris Harris(How I Met Your Mother,The Great Indoors,Acapulco) andJoe Cristalli(Life in Pieces,Perfect Harmony,Maggie) will executive produce the revival series with Grammer,Tom RussoandJordan McMahon. The series will be produced by CBS Studios in association with Grammer’s Grammnet NH Productions.
Stay tuned to Collider for future updates; much like Frasier Crane, we’re listening.
