"I cried, so I'm happy": Frasier is back!
Frasier fans prepare as tossed salad and scrambled eggs are back on the menu, with the long anticipated sequel officially going ahead.
Frasier ran for 263 episodes between 1993-2004 and won 37 Emmy awards making it one of the most successful sitcoms in television history. In February 2021 it was announced that a sequel was in the making, with Kelsey Grammar returning to the title role and serving as an executive producer.
It was been reported that a single series had been greenlit by US streaming platform Paramount+, rumoured to be 10 episodes long.
The new series will see Frasier Crane in the next phase of life, in a new city following up from the final episode of the original, which saw Frasier give up a promising new job in San Francisco to move to Chicago.
The rest of the cast will reportedly feature mostly new characters, with members of the original cast (including David Hyde Pierce’s Niles, Jane Leeves’ Daphne and Peri Gilpin’s Roz) making guest appearances.
John Mahoney, who played Frasier and Niles’ father Martin, died in 2018 and Moose the dog, who played Eddie, Martin’s pet jack russell, died in 2006.
Earlier this year Hyde Pierce (Niles) said he had not yet heard many details about the sequel.
Actress Jane Leeves has suggested she will not be part of the revival, revealing that she remains committed to her role in medical drama The Resident. “I have no idea, but I won’t be leaving The Resident to do that if it happens,” she said. However, Grammer has been pursuing the sequel for years.
Not much has been revealed, but Grammer has proposed that an older Frasier Crane could be a professor or back in private psychiatry practice. He also suggested the story would be “something that puts him at odds with his brother again” and explore his relationship with his now adult son, Frederick.
In July, it was confirmed that they were “in the final stages of the final script for the first episode” for the sequel series, adding: “I’ve had a couple of runs through it, and I cried, so I’m happy.”
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