The eagerly anticipated Frasier revival may start filming this fall, according to Kelsey Grammer. Last February, ViacomCBS gave the Paramount+ series the go-ahead.
In a sneak peek video from his Monday appearance on The Talk, Grammer revealed,” Shooting? There were some conversations about October, maybe a little later. I don’t know. There are a couple of other things coming up. We’ve developed a couple of other projects that look like they’re going to shoot first.” Grammer also said that “they’re in the final stages of the final script for the first episode of the Frasier reboot and it looks pretty good. I’ve had a couple of runs through it, and I cried, so you know, I’m happy.”
The actor claimed that the success of the revival was largely due to the performance of the title role by himself. “The key ingredient for the Frasier reboot is actually Frasier, honestly. It was always called (Frasier), so it’s me, the key is me,” Grammer said. Grammer gave some hints last summer about where the revival will take up after the end of the first series in 2004.
He claimed in an interview with WNBC New York that the character, who relocated to Seattle from Boston for the first season, will eventually wind up in another new location. “He thinks he’s gonna go off and do one thing, and sure enough, his life takes him in another direction. And he ends up rich beyond his dreams.”
What about David Hyde Pierce, Jane Leeves, and Peri Gilpin, Frasier’s surviving co-stars, given that John Mahoney, who played Frasier’s father, passed away in 2018? Grammer claimed to have “reached out to everyone,” but none had responded as of yet, according to WNBC. Grammer stated, “We intend to deal with that some in the first episode.” Mahoney’s Martin Crane appears in 263 episodes of Frasier.
Writers Chris Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Joe Cristalli (Life in Pieces) will executive produce the new version of Frasier alongside Kelsey Grammer, Tom Russo, and Jordan McMahon. In collaboration with Grammnet Productions, CBS Studios will produce the television show.