Reviving “Frasier” was a no-brainer. But it took a lot of thought to bring back the vaunted sitcom — which in 11 seasons on NBC won 37 Emmys, more than any other in its genre, by the time it signed off in 2004 — nearly two decades later. “The idea was to put him in a new world and discover he still had some of the same issues but had matured some,” Kelsey Grammer, who himself won four out of 10 Emmy nominations for playing the highly cultured, easily agitated psychiatrist Frasier Crane, says of the Paramount+ continuation that began last year and is now shooting its second season old-school style: with three cameras in front of a live audience.
“He was a little wiser, a little more mellow, successful in some ways that Frasier hadn’t been previously.” The new iteration sees Frasier returning to Boston — where the character had been introduced on the earlier hit sitcom “Cheers” — to teach at Harvard following a lucrative if ultimately ludicrous career as a radio and TV host. No other characters from the Seattle-set first “Frasier” were regulars in Season 1 of the reboot, though ex-wife Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) and radio producer Roz (Peri Gilpin) made guest appearances.
(Entertainment Weekly recently reported that Gilpin’s role is expanding in the second season, and although there are no plans to get drinks at Cheers, Grammer told The Envelope he’d like to see Frasier close things with Shelley Long’s Diane.) Television A writer who identifies a.
