Properly, people, Frasier has left the constructing… the Paramount+ constructing, that’s. Midway into January, and two months after the Kelsey Grammer-led revival completed its second season, it’s been reported that the streamer is not going to be bringing the sitcom again for Season 3. Nevertheless, I’m hoping this doesn’t really spell the tip of the brand new Frasier, as a result of if nothing else, I would like the present to get at the very least another season for an enormous purpose: giving followers the long-discussed Cheers reunion.
Deadline shared the information of Frasier’s cancellation tonight, writing that the sequence “couldn’t break via in a significant means” on Paramount+, though the primary two seasons will stay accessible for these with a Paramount+ subscription to stream. Nevertheless, the outlet additionally talked about that CBS Studios “stays dedicated to the sequence and plans to buy it to different retailers.” Whereas CBS gained’t be a type of locations since there’s no house for Frasier on the channel and there’s already a “improvement slate set,” Prime Video and Hulu have been instructed as new houses, notably as a result of they each have the unique Frasier.
Whereas the Frasier revival doesn’t rank almost as excessive for me as its predecessor, which ran on NBC from 1993 to 2004 and is taken into account among the best sitcoms of all time, I’ve loved it for what it was: telling the following chapter of Frasier Crane’s life again in his previous Boston, Massachusetts stomping grounds. I additionally haven’t minded spending time with primarily new faces within the revival, although it has been good to reunite with acquainted ones alongside the best way. This has ranged from Peri Gilpin’s Roz Doyle getting an expanded function in Season 2 following her visitor look within the Season 1 finale, to when Frasier and his son Freddy returned to Seattle and frolicked with KACL’s Bulldog and Gil.
However as I simply talked about, the brand new Frasier is ready in Boston, the identical metropolis the place Cheers, the TV present that launched the world to Frasier Crane, occurred. Now, it’d already been mentioned quite a few occasions that the revival wouldn’t revisit Cheers the bar, and I used to be comfortable with that. What wasn’t off the desk was bringing again different Cheers alums. Kelsey Grammer expressed curiosity in having Ted Danson and Shelley Lengthy respectively reprise Sam Malone and Diane Chambers, and Frasier showrunners Chris Harris and Joe Cristali informed me they’d “at the very least a couple of toeholds” into some Cheers-centric tales.
I by no means anticipated the Frasier revival to run anyplace close to so long as the unique Frasier, however it will be a mistake to finish the present now with out delivering the Cheers crossover that’s been teased. Should you’re going to place Frasier Crane again in Boston, he ought to at the very least have the ability to spend time with a number of the pals he made there within the ‘80s, particularly if we’re speaking about Sam and Diane. Even when the brand new Frasier solely will get another season, that’s wonderful as long as one episode delves again into the Cheers nook of this universe. It was clearly within the playing cards, so let’s deal them, so to talk.
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