After two decades, the character Dr. Frasier Crane returns in a new sitcom, “Frasier,” for Paramount+. The show sees Kelsey Grammer's Crane return to Boston, which is where viewers first met the character on “Cheers.” The writers behind the show use restraint, referencing the original series sparingly and taking it easy on the Frasier-speak. This Frasier wants to repair his relationship with his son Freddy, who is now grown and works as a firefighter. He also gets a job as a professor at Harvard
‘Frasier’ returns to TV but you don’t need to be a superfan of the original to laugh at its jokesThis image released by Paramount+ shows Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane, left, Jess Salgueiro as Eve, center, and Jack Cutmore-Scott as Freddy in a scene from “Frasier.” This image released by Paramount+ shows Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane, left, and Jack Cutmore-Scott as Freddy in a scene from “Frasier.
At this point, “Frasier” had been off the air for 10 years, but Cristalli used it as “an outlet to practice writing because I was such a super fan and I just loved the style of joke-telling, so I would work on it.”Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 15-21A few years later, Cristalli read that Grammer was interested in reviving the character. He had his agent send a sample script and examples from his “Frasier”-centric Twitter feed to Grammer’s team.
They also reference the original series sparingly and smartly — which is an act of restraint that Cristalli said Harris helped him to understand. The show is a throwback in that it’s a multi-cam comedy taped in front of a live audience. Most comedies these days are single-cam and filmed without an audience.
“It’s such a comfort because he didn’t have to do the show,” said Cristalli. “He didn’t have to help out. But he read the scripts, he was in the auditioning process, he was pitching jokes and genuinely laughing and enjoying himself. It just made everybody more relaxed because it’s a lot of pressure to bring back something this iconic.”“What I tell them is, ‘When we rehearse, Kelsey is at 50%.
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