THE WRAP UP
Is Frasier back on air?; Johnny’s lawsuit; Luke Perry mourned
We’ve had a reboot of Will & Grace and Roseanne, but is a Frasier revival on cards?
Star of the show Kelsey Grammer has confirmed that a group of writers are currently in talks about the project. Frasier ran for 11 seasons from 1993 to 2004 and focused on Kelsey’s
Cheers character, psychiatrist Frasier Crane, who left Boston to work as a radio advice host in Seattle.
“The first principle is that it is a different story, basically,” Kelsey (64) says. “The same group of characters, but in a different setting. Something has changed in their lives. Certainly John Mahoney died over a year ago and we would probably deal with that a little bit, with Dad being gone.”
He adds that Frasier may no longer be dishing out advice on the radio. “He might be an art dealer, he might be a professor. We don’t know yet.”
The star says he was picked as a regular on Cheers and to be the star of Frasier because the writers noticed something odd about him.
“They explained I made things funny that they didn’t think were funny. In fact, they were trying to write things that weren’t funny to see if I could make them funny,” he tells.
“It became a challenge in the writers’ room to come up with something they thought I couldn’t pull off. But I could still make these things funny, and they said, ‘We ought to keep him around.’”