Paramount+ is making way for more tossed salads and scrambled eggs, with Frasier season 2 set to arrive in September.
The rebooted Frasier – starring, of course, Kelsey Grammer – has been successful enough that a second season has been greenlit by its studio.
According to Deadline, Paramount+ has now confirmed that the second season will premiere with the first two episodes on the 19th September, with the rest following weekly.
The second season will see Frasier revisit his radio roots when he pays a visit to KACL station in Seattle. Reprising their roles from the original series are Dan Butler as Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe, Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton and Harriet Sansom Harris as Frasier’s agent, Bebe Glazer.
Gilpin will reprise the role of Roz, with Greer Grammer is set to play Roz’s daughter Alice. New guest stars include Rachel Bloom, Yvette Nicole Brown, Patricia Heaton and Amy Sedaris.
Frasier is undoubtably one of the most beloved American sitcoms of all time. Spun-off from Cheers, itself an 11 season American institution, Frasier had some of the wittiest writing on television, elevated by the magnificent casting of David Hyde Pierce as Frasier’s equally fastidious brother Niles.
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Along with the much missed John Mahoney as their Dad Martin, Jane Leeves as housekeeper Daphne Moon and Peri Gilpin as acerbic producer Roz Doyle, over 11 seasons the show became embedded in American culture.
Talks of a reboot had been going on for years before it finally went into production for Paramount+ in 2022 under the stewardship of writers Chris Harris and Joe Cristalli.
It saw Frasier move back to Boston in order to spend more time with his son Freddy, played by Jack Cutmore-Scott.
Hyde Pierce declined to return as Niles, so the role Frasier’s intellectual sparring partner was taken by Nicholas Lyndhurst as his old university friend Alan, who lectures at the University where Frasier ends up getting a job. Toks Olagundoye plays Olivia, head of the university’s psychology department. The cast is completed by Jess Salgueiro as Eve, Freddy’s roommate, and Anders Keith as David, Frasier’s nephew.
Season one also featured guest appearances from original series cast, including Bebe Neuwirth as Frasier’s icy ex wife Lilith and the return of Gilpin as Roz.
