Paramount+ has cancelled the revived version of Frasier after two series. The show is now being shopped to other networks.
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.
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.
According to Deadline, Paramount+ has decided not to move forward with a third series. One of the reasons given is that the show ācould not break through in a major way on Paramount+ā.
However, the creative team are shopping the show to other networks. There may yet be a future for the show.
Talks of a Frasier 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. The show featured several guest appearances from members of the original cast, including Gilpin as Roz, Bebe Neuwirth as Frasier’s icy ex wife Lilith, Dan Butler as Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe, Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton and Harriet Samsom Harris as Frasierās former agent Bebe.
You can watch all episodes of both the original Frasier and the reboot on Paramount+.