Paramount+ has confirmed the second season of Frasier, so when the blues come knocking, Frasier will be there to help. Also returning is Kelsey Grammer, who plays the lovably pompous doctor. According to Deadline’s reporting, the streaming service has approved the relaunch of the series, and it will likely be handed a ten-episode order. As the show’s title suggests, Frasier Crane will move to a new city and meet a whole new set of folks there; his Frasier co-stars are not slated to be series regulars but may make occasional cameo appearances. This reminds me of when Crane moved to a new city at the end of Cheers and at the beginning of Frasier.
Although Grammer first discussed a Frasier relaunch with CBS in 2018, the idea did not gain traction until early in 2018 when it was officially greenlit. Frasier Crane, the conceited psychiatrist who competed with Sam Malone (Ted Danson) for the attention of Diane Chambers on NBC’s Cheers, made his debut in the 1984 third-season opener (Shelley Long). Even after Long left, Grammer continued to appear on the programme as one of the Boston barflies. Eventually, Frasier wed the cold psychiatrist Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth), and the two had a son named Frederick. His own spinoff, Frasier, premiered in 1994 after Cheers concluded in 1993 and followed him as a recently divorced man who moved back to Seattle to be closer to his brother Niles (David Hyde-Pierce), father Martin (the late John Mahoney), and father’s live-in nanny, Daphne (Jane Leeves).
There, with the help of Roz Doyle, his producer, he became a call-in radio psychiatrist (Peri Gilpin). Neuwirth, who had previously played Lilith on Cheers, returned for many appearances as a guest performer on the spinoff. Similar to Cheers’ success, Frasier aired for eleven seasons before being cancelled in 2004. The twenty years that Grammer played Crane on prime-time American television made him tied for the record with James Arness of Gunsmoke; the record has since been broken by the cast of The Simpsons and Mariska Hargitay of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Grammer, Tom Russo, and Jordan McMahon serve as executive producers for the revived series with veteran comedy writers and producers Chris Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Joe Cristalli (Life in Pieces, Perfect Harmony, Maggie). CBS Studios and Grammnet NH Productions, headed by Grammer, will collaborate on the project.