For the final couple months, we haven’t heard the blues a’callin’ tossed salad and scrambled eggs. In January, Paramount+ cancelled the Frasier revival after simply two seasons, reportedly as a result of the present “couldn’t break by means of in a significant manner.” As of proper now, the brand new Frasier can nonetheless be streamed with a Paramount+ subscription, however it was additionally stated on the time that CBS Studios deliberate to buy the present to different retailers. Now Frasier Crane himself, Kelsey Grammer, has shared why he’s “very optimistic” we’ll see Frasier Season 3 elsewhere sooner or later, and he additionally talked about that it might embrace a long-awaited Cheers reunion.
Why Kelsey Grammer Believes Frasier Season 3 Will Occur
As Grammer, who beforehand starred in Cheers and the unique Frasier (two of the very best sitcoms of all time) sees it, there’s a “higher residence” for the Frasier revival, claiming that the powers-that-be at Paramount+ “didn’t actually promote or spend a lot time on it.” As he elaborated in his interview with The New York Publish:
The guy that labored at Paramount Plus after we first offered the present there left, and so it form of fell into their laps, the subsequent administration, with out having any actual acutely aware and what to do with it. So I believe they gave it form of a great strive, however they weren’t significantly passionate concerning the undertaking.
Frasier premiered on Paramount+ on October 12, 2023, almost twenty years after its predecessor completed its 11-season run. Kelsey Grammer was accompanied by all-new faces in the principle forged, however of us like Peri Gilpin, Bebe Neuwirth and Harriet Sansom Harris did reprise their roles from the unique collection in visitor or recurring capacities. In the end, Frasier did not get sufficient consideration at Paramount+, however Grammer is assured will transfer someplace the place it’ll have a greater platform to shine on. In his phrases:
We’ll find yourself someplace the place individuals are enthusiastic about it. Pay attention, it’s received an enormous viewers, a giant following, and if individuals know the place to search out it, I believe they are going to.
Though CBS has been dominated out as a brand new residence for Frasier, the opposite finest streaming companies are presumably viable choices. Ideally we’ll be taught within the subsequent a number of months if a deal is labored out, as a result of if 2025 concludes and there’s no information, that nearly definitely received’t bode properly. If Frasier does return, apparently Season 3 might see Kelsey Grammer being paired onscreen with somebody he spent quite a lot of time with in the course of the Cheers days.
Kelsey Grammer And Ted Danson Have One thing Cooking
Again in October, Ted Danson, who performed Sam Malone on Cheers, apologized to Grammer for the decades-old argument that they had when the latter appeared on the The place Everyone Is aware of Your Identify podcast, which Danson hosts with Woody Boyd actor Woody Harrelson. Grammer later clarified that it wasn’t a real argument, simply Danson’s dissatisfaction together with his work ethic once they had been making Cheers. Regardless, these two are again to being good standing with each other, and now they’re speaking about teaming up for a undertaking. As Grammer put it:
Ted and I’d go to really one thing collectively. We’ve been speaking a few couple concepts. Possibly on ‘Frasier.’ We don’t know.
Earlier than Frasier Season 2 premiered, showrunners Chris Harris and Joe Cristali instructed me that had “a number of toeholds into some tales” involving Cheers characters reuniting with Frasier Crane. Kelsey Grammer had additionally expressed particular curiosity in having Ted Danson and Shelley Lengthy, who performed Diane Chambers, return. On this newest interview, Grammer stated “there’s definitely nonetheless some fields to be mined there” earlier than one thing may be labored out earlier than Frasier and Sam catch up, however he nonetheless sees the connection between these characters as “related.”
Evidently Kelsey Grammer and Ted Danson can be working collectively once more whether or not it’s for Frasier or not, however I definitely hope a Cheers crossover may be organized if Season 3 occurs. Simply don’t count on them to go to the Cheers bar, as Grammer reminded us that director James Burrow has all the time stated, “No, that bar doesn’t exist anymore.”