The “Frasier” sequel will return to the place all of it began: Boston. That metropolis, in any case, was the setting for “Cheers,” the sequence that first launched the character of Frasier Crane, carried out by Kelsey Grammer, in 1984. The hit NBC spin-off “Frasier” moved the character to Seattle; in its finale, the Frasier made the quick decision to fly to Chicago to chase a love curiosity, fairly than head to San Francisco, the place a model new TV job awaited.
Nevertheless as Paramount+ confirmed on Wednesday morning, the model new mannequin of “Frasier” will observe the character “throughout the subsequent chapter of his life as he returns to Boston, Mass., with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge and an earlier dream or two to lastly fulfill.”
The first episode is about to be taped this Friday in entrance of a reside studio viewers in Los Angeles. TV helming legend James Burrows will direct the first two episodes of the model new sequence. Burrows might be baked into the current’s DNA: He’s one among many co-creators, exec producers and directos of “Cheers,” and as well as directed the distinctive “Frasier” pilot, “The Good Son,” in 1993. (He continued to direct plenty of episodes of that current’s first plenty of seasons.)
Burrows, in any case, directed practically all of “Cheers” episodes, along with 1984 episode of “Cheers,” the Season 3 premiere “Rebound,” which first launched Frasier to the world.
Kelsey Grammer, James Burrows in 2001 at an event for the Paley Coronary heart — then typically known as the Museum of TV & Radio.
Ron Galella Assortment by means of Getty
Burrows has gained 10 Emmys and 5 Directors Guild of America Awards, and along with “Cheers” and “Frasier” might be recognized for his work on sitcoms along with “Will & Grace,” “Buddies,” “Wings,” “Night time time Court docket docket,” “Taxi,” “Costly John” and others.
Grammer as Frasier returns to Boston with a model new strong: Jack Cutmore-Scott as Frasier’s son, Freddy; Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s earlier college buddy turned faculty professor, Alan; Toks Olagundoye as Alan’s colleague and head of the faculty psychology division, Olivia; Jess Salguerio as Freddy’s roommate, Eve; and Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew, David.
Grammer will authorities produce along with writers Chris Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”) and Joe Cristalli (“Life In Objects”); totally different EPs embrace Tom Russo and Jordan McMahon. The model new “Frasier” comes from CBS Studios along with Grammer’s Grammnet NH Productions.
Proper right here’s a teaser for the return of “Frasier”:
