Television audiences first met Frasier Crane on the hit sitcom “Cheers” before the character moved to Seattle for his own spin-off series.
With the reboot of the sitcom around the corner, “Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer is explaining why his character is headed back to Massachusetts.
On a recent appearance on “Today,” Grammer told hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager that his character is returning to Boston to “put himself back in a place where he didn’t feel like he had quite made it, where he left with his tail between his legs a bit.”
Grammer continued, sharing that his character “wants to feel like he’s conquered it again. He had such high hopes for Boston in his life. Fell in love, fell in love again, got divorced, had a child... There’s a lot going on in his life now. It’s pointing him back home.”
Two episodes of the “Frasier” reboot have already been shot, revealed Grammer. Though a premiere date has not been set yet for the Paramount+ series, don’t expect a full cast reunion.
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John Mahoney, who played the Frasier family patriarch Martin, died in 2018. “We have to honor the fact that John Mahoney died and that Martin is no longer with us. We'll be dealing with that for sure,” Grammer told People in November.
Grammer also shared that David Hyde Pierce, who played Niles Crane on the series, will not be returning. “David basically decided he wasn’t really interested in repeating the performance of Niles,” said Grammer, noting that it “took us to a new place, which was what we originally wanted to do anyway, which was a ‘Frasier’ third act. It’s an entirely new life for him.”
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