Frasier Getting His Personal Sitcom Wasn’t The Latest Plan For Submit-I appreciate it Kelsey Grammer

When “Cheers” after all ended nearest 11 seasons in 1992, it introduced in nearly 100 million audience for the sequence finale. In alternative phrases, the display’s recognition can’t be overstated. Even President Invoice Clinton asked a cameo look within the ultimate episode — regardless that he in the long run stood the manufacturers up. So, taking a liked persona from an much more liked sequence and giving him his personal display turns out love it would were a no brainer.

However, because the Self-importance Honest oral historical past of “Frasier” displays, issues didn’t slightly paintings that manner. It seems that, ahead of the tip of “Cheers,” Kelsey Grammer had signed a do business in with Paramount to assemble a fresh sequence, and enlisted writer-producers David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee to assistance assemble it. The trio had in the past helped assemble the nature of Frasier himself and appeared completely positioned to give a contribution to no matter Grammer’s fresh display used to be getting to be. Oddly enough quantity, on the other hand, era Angell, Casey, and Lee would proceed directly to co-create “Frasier,” their preliminary concept for Grammer’s solo sequence had nice-looking a lot not anything to do with Dr. Crane in any respect. As Casey instructed Self-importance Honest:

“We created this high-brow, eccentric multi-millionaire publisher, a Malcolm Forbes–type, who gets into a motorcycle accident that paralyzes him from the waist down and forces him to run his empire from his Manhattan penthouse bedroom with the help of a Rosie Perez–type live-in nurse.”

Feels like a move between “Rear Window” and “The Upside.” What would that also be like? Neatly, thank you partly to then-Paramount TV President John Pike, we’ll by no means know.