Kelsey Grammer is seen clutching a Frasier script and confirms reboot IS in the works

Frasier Crane.

Pompous Madcap or Deadbeat Dad?

You decide!

No Martin-Eddie, no point.

😂😂

Desperate.

That show on FOX is horrible.

Oh, no.

Kelsey, cantcha do something else?

There is no greater fan of FRASIER than me, and this project needs to be shelved.

The actors are far too old now, and whatever Grammer and the current crop of writers decide the characters have done in the last 15 years won't satisfy viewers who had their own ideas.

And Grammer's remark about Frasier having had 6 other kids in the interim is alarming. Frasier was 50 when the show ended. The idea that he - like Grammer - played Johnny Appleseed into his dotage is revolting and untrue to the character.

He didn't raise the first one!

[quote] And Grammer's remark about Frasier having had 6 other kids in the interim is alarming. Frasier was 50 when the show ended. The idea that he - like Grammer - played Johnny Appleseed into his dotage is revolting and untrue to the character.

I'm not certain that is true. Frasier Crane competed with Jerry Seinfeld for having the higher number of red hot chicks as unlikely lovers. Why would Frasier stop? LOTS of seed to spread around there.

[quote] Dr. Frasier Crane dated and/or slept with around 57 women through the 11 seasons the program ran on NBC. Additionally, it’s estimated that Jerry Seinfeld (you know, the other most popular sitcom star of the 90s) dated and/or slept with 73 different partners throughout the show’s tenure. Those numbers are preposterous if not downright gaudy.

I watched my first episode and love it.

Niles and Frasier are wrestling in a hotel room and Frasier plucks one of Niles’ chest hairs, LOL.

It has just a good a chance as Will and Grace had. And that show (love it or hate it) hit the ground running and is still going strong. Frazier and Niles and Daphne (not sure if they would be back but the actors very well could sign on) are just older. Everyone gets older. Martin might have died "on the show" too. He was getting up there. Eddie would have died. In short, I think it is simply a matter of if anyone wants to see Frazier in his 60's now. And if the writing is top notch. And whether the show could snag a younger viewer fanbase who were too young for the first go-round.

It could be targeted on Netflix to the Grace and Frankie age group. Bring back the main three plus Laura Linney.

I think this could work if:

- It was kept to 10-13 episodes

- It focused on Frederick, introduced a young character or two to be in Frederick's orbit

- Had Frasier podcasting or somehow bring in the new broadcasting methods, with a producer who would push him into that...maybe Roz would be there too.

- Niles and Daphne would be welcome visitors but shouldn't be in every episode.

- Joe Keenan has to be involved somehow.

I didn't pay much attention to Frasier. On Seinfeld. Jerry had a lot of dates but he didn't fuck every one of them by any means. A lot of them were one offs because Jerry was too shallow.

That said, no thanks to more Frasier.

Frasier needs some diversity.

Are you suggesting a black Daphne? R15

Why do I feel like the only person really eager for a Frasier reboot is Kelsey Grammer?

If there's no Nile and Daphne, there's no point.

I'd also need to see the old Crane condo because that's irreplaceable.

Lilith will show up and the show will take off.

Difficult without Martin. Their relationship was so integral to the show. Also, no mention is made of Niles and Daphne but needless to say, if they aren't on board this reboot should not happen. And lastly, if this is going to focus heavily on Frasier's relationship with Freddie, then the casting of Freddie is paramount. That awful kid who played him on the show should NOT do it. He had no charisma whatsoever.

That hot guy who played Murphy Brown’s son is available

r10

Niles : My God, I'm having a flashback! You're climbing in my crib and jumping on me!

Frasier : You stole my mommy!

Maybe Niles and Frasier reunite for Martin's funeral and it goes from there. Surely it's a given it won't happen without David Hyde Pierce.

And if Frederick is 30 (and a cop? Or another intellectual aesthete? ) there is no shortage of actors who can be cast.

The quality all depends on the writers and showrunners. There's a big boomer audience who will eat this up.

I am rewatching the series now. They could focus on Fredrick, as long as they recast, he is hideous. Also: Alice (Roz's kid), and David, Niles/Daphne's kid born in the finale.

Frederick was a goth who went to computer camp.

"Why do I feel like the only person really eager for a Frasier reboot is Kelsey Grammer?"

There is new scenery to be chewed.

Kelsey Grammer is seen clutching a Frasier script and confirms reboot IS in the works

Camille Donatacci-Grammer-Rich-Husband has just fainted.

R24 Thank you for mentioning Alice.

The writing is everything here. But I also need Roz on full time. Peri Gilpin is terrific.

Kelsey just received damning reviews in the English National Opera's yearly staged musical. He was The Man Of La Mancha and was accused not sufficiently quixotic in reviews.

Fraser should be more like the Martin Crane character and Frederick be a very successful professional. Good looking, grounded, and successful with women. Base the show in LA, with Fraser teaching at a private college. Frederick could come to live with him. Roz and her grown up daughter run a mother and daughter actor’s agency. Roz’s daughter is a carbon copy of Roz. Niles is a consultant on a very successful but campy Psychiatrist show based on both his a Fraser’s life. Daphne works at the college as well as a counsellor having gone back to school now that the kids are grown and studying abroad. They come together to help Fraser who has had some depression and substance issues since Martin’s death. Episode 1 Frederick buys Fraser a dog!

This will not end in laughs.

If Jean Smart shows up, count me in!

[quote] Episode 1 Frederick buys Fraser a dog!

I like that but every new show on the air seems to be about zombies. Zombie-hunter Frasier will probably be chasing undead Lilith to various exotic locales week by week.

r29 Frasier will still be arch and refined but will cringe at Frederick's (a tech guy?) beard and his dive bar hangout and single-speed bicycle.

I'm sure woody will make a guest appearance.

R34 because?

(R29) has the best ideas, bravo, it should start out with Freddy buying Frasier a big dog. Even though Freddy was not athletic and allergic to the outdoors, I think he should be a former NFL kicker now running a sports agency with bulldog and Bebe. Love Dan Butler and Harriet Samson Lewis. And, Jean Smart. Good television.

r36 Yes, he has great ideas

Frasier worked best as an ensemble. I've seen a few episodes in reruns, and Kelsey is best when reined in by others.

Episodes focusing on him and trying to date are cringeworthy now.

Jean Smart was great in the screechy shrew character.

If they have to reboot this, Wendie Malick should reprise her role and become part of Frasier's core family, given her time with Martin.

((r37) oh my my hostile little queeniac. What did I say that rated an oh my, you nasty little faux grammarian. Or Grammerian, pun intended, you luddite.

John Mahoney made the show work. It's hard to see what the heart of a reboot would be. Frasier can't be a Marty -- his constant preening and flouncing are essential to his character.

Frederick would have to be like Marty for the chemistry to work--although a fussy older dad and hip young son is hardly breaking new territory.

Without John Mahoney, I don't think the show will work. The chemistry of a cast is a delicate balance.

Do the cast even like each other? Given how unbearable it must have been to work with Grammer at the height of his substance abuse. I get a feeling it's going to be like the Arrested Development reboot with no one that enthusiastic and some of them only turning up for 30 seconds of contractual screen time.

Oh God, I wish the AD reboot never happened. I pretend it didn't and just watch the first three seasons.

Wasn’t the “oh my” in the ‘posted by’ slot above actually a Frasier catch-phrase?

This is a horrible idea, but if I'm honest, as long as they involve Harriet Sansom-Harris, I will watch.

Bebe was the best. If there's more Bebe, the show will work.

Not much love for Roz on this thread but I thought she was great. Never once nominated for an Emmy as far as I can remember. A shame.

Crusty the GOPig Douche should stick to chewing scenery in regional theatre.

He's a hardcore Rethug and his presence in the new X-Men is painful enough.

loved bebe...the epi about her quitting smoking was hilarious. the whole show was pants peeing funny....i was not such a "Martin is/was a god" fan......at all. i just keep seeing him in Suspect..... the hot and foamy epi: TooFunny. I think Niles and Fraiser's back and forth made the show.....

i think i watched ONE epi of the new/old will and grace and that was it for me.....i love megan mull-whatever the fuck her name is but her voice is just torture...... will and grace, Murphy brown, now this? No thanks.

R36 Love it. Was a big fan of the Bebe and Bulldog characters. Making Frederick a complete opposite of Frasier is a must. It will make Frasier sarcastic and a bit curmudgeonly.

Roz Flambé.....

How surprising he goes back to the well again. That's because Frasier Crane is more famous than Kelsey Grammer.

Huge fan of Martin here and not sure if it could work without him. He wasn’t just different than Niles and Frasier, he was often wiser, and that drove them nuts.

Plus, I think I’d be constantly waiting for Martin to enter and it would sadden me.

Roz behaved exactly like most gay men in her personal life and for that alone she should be a gay icon.

I always thought she would be a blast as a friend.

Roz was great and is essential. Bebe would be great to have back. Of course Bulldog as well. Love the idea of Malick being around, then we'd have both her and Jane Leeves. But again, it's the casting of Freddie that's essential. That kid who played him was so unlikeable. This time it needs to be someone very charismatic.

Roz was a great character for the first five or six seasons of the show, but then they ran out of things for her to do. In the last season of the show, Roz has no character arc and does almost nothing of consequence; she is used only for sad exposition.

Personally I thought the young man who portrayed Frederick did just fine as child actors go.

Watched one episode and never again as David Hyde Pierce was so gay there was no way in hell he could play a straight character.

Unpopular opinion - I loathed Jane Leeves.

I was wondering when the flouncing, hissy fit having, foot stomping queen would come in screaming about how "evil" Kelsey is and along comes r47. Using name calling really doesn't fit you, try some therapy.

oh gosh. Not again.

Ooh, pissy little R59 has had her delicate sensibilities soiled by a comment! Heaven forfend, the poor little Rethug-supporting pantywaist cannot abide a disparaging word for her favorite Trump-loving thespian!

Although your post is so grammatically inept, you're not worth replying to, you slithering cunt crumb, nevertheless, R59, you've painting a clearly autobiographical portrait of your hyphen-inept prissy self. Back to your Eldergays for Trump posts, missy.

R59's dearly beloved Kelsey (who shall not be bismearched under HER watch!) on Trump:

“In terms of policy, I don’t have a lot of problems with what he’s doing,” he said of the president.

“He’s a bit of a brat, I guess you could say, and that is astounding for people, especially who come from the more liberal side of politics — they’re used to being the brats and so they’ve just never had anybody come back at them the same way,” Mr. Grammer explained. “We’ve witnessed in American politics the same basic language since Ronald Reagan has been attached to every conservative president, but this is the first guy that ever fires back and so it’s really unpleasant.

“I’m not aware of taking a [career] hit for it but now, certainly passions run high, and certainly he has touched on an extraordinarily passionate response," Grammer said. "I don't know if it's as serious or horrible as everybody wants it to be."

KELSEY GRAMMER SPOTTED HOLDING A 'FRASIER' SCRIPT SPARKS REBOOT RUMORS

The journalist pressed the 64-year-old further and said, "I was wondering whether you thought the sort of, many people believe this sort of fabric is being disrupted."

"Well, I think fabric being disrupted is a good thing," he said. "I don’t think Washington didn't do us any favors for the last 50, 60 years, I think they’ve all been sort of the same party, the same bunch of clowns, the same bunch of really unpleasant people."

The "Frasier" star continued to express how he doesn't believe politicians help "anybody but themselves."

Praise be! R59's Trumpian Savior!

[quote]Although your post is so grammatically inept, you're not worth replying to, you slithering cunt crumb, nevertheless, R59, you've painting a clearly autobiographical portrait of

I love irony.

#metoo will end up derailing this.

R63 Remember this?

R63 And this?

He's a victim! A victim! The poor thing.

R57, Frasier’s character was just as effeminate and prissy and Kelsey’s straight in real life.

R57 is seen clutching her pearls and confirms her rehab IS in the works.

Grammer’s a professional victim. The world is out to get him. Remember how whiny he got when the Frasier finale didn’t get the same level of media attention as the Friends finale? He claimed it was all NBC’s fault for not promoting them equally. Sorry, Kelsey, but viewers just weren’t as invested in your romances of the week as they were in Ross and Rachel. Unfair maybe but the public wants what it wants.

R13 Frederick should look good with his shirt off.

R 79. Not true. I remember an interview with John Mahoney where he said that Kelsey is absolutely nothing like Frasier.

I can’t get over how many members of Grammer’s family were murdered or died in freak accidents.

[quote]R 79. Not true.

Are you posting from the future?

Can you give us the winning Megaball numbers?

Someone get the fainting couch and smelling salts for r61, she done snapped. Poor dear. LOL.

R59 here, I'm neither a trump supporter nor do I watch Fox News. How sad a world r61 must live in if it can't conveniently pigeonhole people for its convenience.

I don't know, how many years can one play the same character? Frasier had a long run, it was played out by the end. It could work if they focus on the kids, but Daphne and Nile should not be on every ep. The original show went down hill when they got together. Absolutely no chemistry and they were insufferable together.

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[quote]but Daphne and Nile should not be on every ep. The original show went down hill when they got together. Absolutely no chemistry and they were insufferable together.

God yes!

Or do to Daphne what they did to Maris, make her unseen. Niles (alone) is integral.

R78 is permanently perched on this thread and no others, which is odd enough. To have to proclaim his non-Trumpian stance proves otherwise.

An easily offended snit who can't abide chiding of a Rethuglicunt actor, the poor thing still can't afford to buy a hyphen.

Prisspot R78/R59 is the one who needs smelling salts, R77, you ninny.

Niles and Daphne should be divorced but still pining for each other, to recreate the original dynamic.

And Frederick should be interested in Roz' daughter.

R72 Friends was also a bigger hit and a pop culture phenomenon in a way that Frasier was not.

Fun thread with fun ideas tossed around.

[quote]I don't know, how many years can one play the same character?

Hold my beer...

[quote]Fun thread with fun ideas tossed around.

Like salad and scrambled eggs?

I think it could work, because even when the characters were young, they were kind of old. He could still be doing a radio show. Maybe Frederick is a lazy, unmotivated man. (You know what they say about psychiatrists' kids. He had two psychiatrist parents.) Lilith might be a helicopter parent hovering over her millennial son like he's a toddler. She and Frasier would still argue like cats and dogs about their son.

Niles and Daphne could have a kid who would be about 14 now.

But Frazier can't live alone in that huge apartment. At the end of the first episode, he says goodnight to everyone at the station, goes home, opens the door, and there is Roz. Or Lilith. Or...Diane? For this to work, it has to be someone who gets along with Frazier but does NOT get along with Niles. And they're still forced to interact because of the family connection.

I'd rather see a Cheers reboot. If those people were still spending all day in a bar after 20 years, that would be sad...but hilarious, too.

I wish they'd tried to spin off Diane with her own series. Shelley's at least as funny as Kelsey.

[quote]Like salad and scrambled eggs?

Ewwww. Who the hell would want that as a....ohhhhhhh.

I would love a Diane/Sam series. I always felt robbed that they didn't get together at the end.

R83, please, no. That was all for nothing, when they did get together they ruined the show. Not every show needs leads to get together; Niles and Daphne were a huge mistake. If they do the show I could take Niles, but without Daphne.

IIt's a revival, not a reboot. A reboot is when they press the reset button (i.e. the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man films were a reboot of the ones with Tobey Maguire).

Frasier is one of those rare shows that stayed enjoyable throughout its run. It did go downhill somewhat when they got Niles and Daphne together, because Niles's unrequited passion for her was a great running gag, but even then there were still a lot of funny moments. I would rather they left it in the past than potentially tarnished it.

No offense to Jane Leeves, but Daphne should be killed off.

No, r93, too dark. We’d already be dealing with Martin’s death. It’s supposed to be a comedy.

Just do a backstory about why we don’t see her. Send her back to the fat farm or something.

Send her to England to deal with sick mom or something. (Just don’t bring the annoying family back here!)

Have her run off. In the beginning Daphne was this new age chick. They really changed her character after the first few seasons. Have her revert to type and run off leaving Niles behind.

What's Laura Linney up to? Isn't that who he was off to surprise and be with in the finale?

Frasier and his son need to be polar opposites, politically and otherwise. That's the mistake they made with Murphy Brown, her son was liberal also, he should have been conservative to create friction.

Wendie Malick needs to be living with Niles or Frasier, perhaps they promised Martin they would take care of her.

Nile and Daphne divorced, son gay. Bring in Craig Ferguson to be Daphne's boyfriend, he was her boyfriend on Hot in Cleveland.

Roz settled down and married, called back to work on Frasier's new podcast or daytime tv talk show.

R82 after learning that whole wide world doesn't revolve around its way of thinking. Sad.

Love Trigglypuff!!!!!

Frasier was largely a deadbeat dad.

Gaylord/Freddie should have issues.

Little Lud should have been brought on as a guest star.

[quote]Frasier and his son need to be polar opposites, politically and otherwise.

The problem with that is the show would focus on Frasier vs. the boring "typical Millennial snowflake." Grammer couldn't help himself and would wallow in lazy right-wing stereotypes, and it would end up being "Last Man Standing" but with more jokes about gewurztraminer.

[quote]gewurztraminer

Gesundheit

The grown-up Frederick was one of the ad guys on the last seasons of Mad Men. Worked I think for Peggy

Please don’t mention Last Man Standing ever again.

....

What reboot hasn’t been awful?

Joe Keenan better be at the helm.

I can't bring myself to watch it now that dear John Mahoney is gone. I only tolerated the horrible Kelsey Grammer so I could see Mahoney,Peri Gilpin and Harriet Sansom Harris in action.

I agree with the poster who gave a shout-out to Jean Smart above. One of the most underused in underappreciated, comic actresses in America.

Cut Daphne.

Make Frasier's son not a snowflake, but some tech nerd type who doesn't like opera.

I like that they're allowing the character to evolve, again.

Reboots fail when they, essentially, dig up Mary and Ted Baxter's corpses, put them in the same job and on the same sets, with the actors just being 25 years older than the last time you saw them. Nostalgia, when it is this literal, is depressing.

And that's the way so many of these reboots play: completely safe and worthless.

[quote]Have her run off. In the beginning Daphne was this new age chick. They really changed her character after the first few seasons. Have her revert to type and run off leaving Niles behind.

Run off with a woman. There's something on-the-nose but perfect about the scenario. It would be a funny reference to the ending of the 80s neo noir To Live and Die In LA.

They'd probably fear the crazed fangirls and never do it (I can't believe there were Nilse/Daphe shippers, but whatever).

Making Daphne into the new, almost, Lilith would be an interesting concept.

I thought forfor sure it was going to read, seen clutching a handbag.........Grammer always struck me as on the downlow. Whatever he is he is a complete piece of shit. I never watched frasier or anything he has ever been in and cant stand him.

Boy you sure showed everyone r113. Keep it up you one man parade of all things virtuous.

I don’t think this is happening, I think he’s just getting started early on choosing the best kind of Christmas tree.

Apparently he learned nothing from the Murphy Brown remake fiasco.

I don't want to see some dopey douche nozzle who looks good shirtless as Frederick on as a weekly co-star. I hate shows that put so much focus on the adult kids of the star to play off of. It's always atrociously dull. Remember Happy Family (2003} with John Larroquette, Christine Baranski? He can pop in sometimes but he should be weird and schizophrenic.

Episode 1: Stewie (Niles) Crane is dragged kicking and screaming out of the closet once and FOR ALL!

Is made to publicly admit he has never had even the slightest passing interest in Daphne Moon.

I think it will be better than the Murphy Brown Fiasco because it won't have a political angle like that one Frasier was anti-politics thank goodness.

I think it will be more like Grace And Frankie, dealing with dating in advanced age.

Who wants to see this shit? I'd rather have a Cheers reboot...without Kelsey's annoying Republican ass.

Let it die. I loved Frasier, but I can't get over Grammar's Trump-ian victim act.

I loved the original Frasier but that KG not only was a Trump supporter but still is....I don't think I can ever watch him in anything. Simply KG's continuing support says of him that he is a pig about women, a racist, anti American, anti democracy, someone who hates the poor and wants to see people without healthcare or even food. I can't look at someone like that.

Sadly there arent enough sophisticated intelligent Americans left to get the gist of the humor . 2 Broke Girls. Need I say more ?

[quote]Sadly there arent enough sophisticated intelligent Americans left to get the gist of the humor .

Yeah, watching a show starring an unfunny Trump-loving cunt makes a person REALLY intelligent!

I think he was holding up Two Broke Girls as an example of the unsophisticated audiences of today, r125, not endorsing it.

Frasier was a great show, whatever psycho Kelsey’s politics are.

Too bad there's a show called Second Act because the show could easily be called Third Act.

There's enough production infrastructure in Chicago to base the show there. Bring back Bebe Neuwirth. They can lament the fact that their son used his intellect to become something non intellectual. Frasier would be a grandfather by now. And probably a professor which would allow him to pontificate the way he did on his radio show.

It was boring and stuffy and unfunny. Old people humor.

Wasn't Two Broke Girls cancelled?

It - may - be happening.

Bring back Kelsey, David Hype Pierce, Laura Linney, Peri Gilpin and Frederick.

Frasier doesn't need Jane Leeves.

I hope that there is a reboot, so that the media will finally expose what a disgusting deplorable Grammer is.

His strippers, booze, coke, the world's unluckiest family history this side of the Kennedys, awful ex-wife, friend of Dubya, and Fox News watching have already been exposed.