Frasier Crane will once again be looking for a new home.
Paramount+ says it won’t go ahead with a third season of Frasier, its revival of the Must See TV-era NBC comedy starring Kelsey Grammer. The news comes two months after the show’s second season concluded.
CBS Studios, which produces the show, says it will look to find a new home for Frasier, which follows Dr. Frasier Crane (Grammer) as he returns to Boston and takes a teaching post at Harvard in order to forge a better relationship with his now-adult son Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott). Nicholas Lyndhurst, Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salguiero and Anders Keith also star; Frasier alumni Peri Gilpin, Bebe Neuwirth, Harriet Sansom Harris, Dan Butler and Edward Hibbert have made guest appearances.
The first rumblings of a Frasier revival came in early 2021; Paramount+ gave it a series order in October 2022, and it premiered a year later. As is usually the case with streaming platforms, Paramount+ didn’t publicly disclose viewing figures for Frasier.
“The first season for every show is about finding the characters and realizing, ‘Oh, we thought this character was here, but it’s actually over there.’ Or, ‘we thought that these two had a sniping relationship, but it’s one of mutual respect,’” co-showrunner Chris Harris told The Hollywood Reporter as season two wrapped. “Our show was not one of the few shows that came out of the gate knowing exactly what every character was, like the original Frasier. But for the most part, that first season, we feel good about having found where the center of the show is. And here we got to dive in more.”
Joe Cristalli is co-showrunner alongside Harris; they executive produce with Grammer (via his Grammnet NH Productions), Tom Russo and Jordan McMahon.
The two seasons of the Frasier revival, as well as the original series, will remain on Paramount+.
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