Kelsey Grammer Shares Secrets and ways of the Frasier Revival — and Why David Hyde Pierce Is rarely any longer in actuality Returning

Dr. Frasier Crane is coming support to a conceal come you… and almost right this moment!

In a novel interview with PEOPLE, Kelsey Grammer opens up about the upcoming revival of the beloved demonstrate Frasier, which ran on NBC from 1993-2004. (The demonstrate turned into originally a breeze-off of Cheers, the place Grammer also performed Frasier Crane from 1984-1993.)

“We starting up rehearsals in February,” Grammer, 67, confirms of the Paramount+ demonstrate. “We delight in been engaged on it honestly for approximately six or seven years.”

“It has been on the gradual burner,” he continues. “We had been appreciate, right here is no longer any longer a faulty thought. Perchance right here’s a factual suggestion!”

Soundless, he says he and the producers animated went backward and forward on the explain — as smartly as who can even approach support.

“For a whereas we had been going to try and produce support the entire forged, the entire legacy forged,” Grammer says, referring the demonstrate’s predominant stars which incorporated David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin, Jane Leeves, and John Mahoney, who died in 2018.

David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer on the house of Frasier.
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On the other hand, after Hyde Pierce bowed out, Grammer says they’d to rethink things.

“David in most cases decided he wasn’t in actuality tantalizing about repeating the performance of Niles,” Grammer says of his onscreen brother. (After Frasier, Hyde Pierce went on to thrill in a thriving theater occupation and currently starred as Julia Childs’ husband Paul in the HBO Max sequence Julia.)

Grammer says the casting construction truly ended up knowing. “In a in actuality laughable capacity, it correct took us to a novel location, which turned into what we originally wished to terminate anyway, which turned into a Fraser third act,” he explains. “It’s a wholly unique existence for him.”

Within the long-established sequence, which received a total of 37 Emmys at some stage in or no longer it’s 11-season bustle, Grammer performed Frasier, a radio psychiatrist and an uptight intellectual residing in Seattle along with his equally fussy brother and their blue collar father. The actor received four Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes and a Camouflage Actors Guild Award for the feature.

Within the revival, fans will search Frasier residing in a wholly unique metropolis alone.

“He’s our daring little soldier that continues on in existence, finding unique challenges and a novel admire and unique folk and a novel metropolis and stuff appreciate that,” Grammer says. “I’m in actuality very brooding about it, and we’ll surely continuously honor the previous. We now must honor the truth that John Mahoney died and that Martin is no longer any longer with us. We are going to be coping with that for definite.”

The long-established forged of Frasier delight in an even time one other Emmy fetch.
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He provides that they’ll also show the absence of the assorted folk from his previous, including Niles, Roz and Daphne.

“We are going to surely be responsive about the truth that there turned into a brother and such,” says Grammer. “However the unique world for Frasier is one of as much as date friendships — and some unique twists and turns he did no longer know had been calm in there.”

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Closing summer season, Grammer — who is currently starring in the Lifetime holiday movie The 12 Days of Christmas Eve along with his daughter Spencer Grammer (out Nov. 26) — unfolded about studying the predominant script for the imprint unique Frasier, and he acknowledged he entirely cherished it.

“I’ve had a couple runs by arrangement of it, and I cried,” he acknowledged at the time. “So , I’m joyful.”