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Kelsey Grammer with Kevin Daniels, Jimmy Dunn and Jack Cutmore-Scott in the series ‘Frasier’ for Paramount+.
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The resurgence of frasier It’s going to have a second season.
Paramount+ has renewed the comedy, starring Kelsey Grammer reprising her grumpy character first introduced on the NBC series. Health – for another round.
“Kelsey made a triumphant return as one of the most iconic and beloved characters on television,” said Jeff Grossman, executive vice president of programming at Paramount+. “The new series presented fraiser to a whole new generation while also reminding fans of Kelsey’s truly timeless portrayal of Dr. Crane. “We are very excited to see what the creative team and magnificent cast deliver for season two.”
Grammer added: “frasier “It is a love story and I am very happy that we are allowed to continue it.”
The series follows Crane “in the next chapter of his life after returning to Boston to face new challenges, forge new relationships and, hopefully, finally fulfill an old dream or two”, and also stars Jack Cutmore-Scott ( like Frasier’s son). Freddy), Nicholas Lyndhurst, Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro and Anders Keith.
The first season also featured guest appearances from the cast of the original series, such as Bebe Neuwirth and Peri Gilpin.
Reviews of the first season were decidedly mixed from critics and fans, but Grammer previously expressed confidence that the show would return.
“I think we have a home at Paramount+ for the next few years and we certainly have a few ideas about it,” Grammer said. The Hollywood Reporter after the end. “But where our future is, of course, we’re going to explore the relationship between father and son, and that’s natural. Then you get the other characters involved as well… You gain that right after the first few episodes, when you allow the audience to just get acquainted with the new people that are there and understand the basis of the show.”
He continued: “The basis of the show is the father-son relationship, but also Frasier’s new friendship, Frasier’s new life, his third or fourth act, possibly. That’s what we’re discovering. We’ve discovered that he’s probably a little bit more mature, maybe still a little bit the same kind of crazy, but he’s grown up a little bit: for him to have been static, for us to have started over on the same program from 30 years ago. (when the show started) going back to the same story would have been ridiculous. For a man to go through 30 years of his life and not age would have been ridiculous and he would not have become wiser in any way. “We thought it was important to give him some sort of new clothes.”
During his final press rounds, a few days after the SAG-AFTRA strike ended, a BBC interviewer reclaimed Paramount+ publicists interrupted an interview when Grammer spoke about his support for Donald Trump. Paramount+ has not commented.