‘Frasier’ Canceled: Fans Share Mixed Reactions to Paramount+ Revival’s End
Frasier fans hear the blues a-callin’: The Paramount+ comedy, a revival of the ’90s-era NBC sitcom of the same name, has been canceled.
“Noooooooo,” bemoaned and X user after the cancellation was announced on Friday, January 17. “I thought this show was a ton of fun and really enjoyable.”
As another said that the series had improved in its second season. “Sucks,” they posted. “The second season was so much better than the first one.”
And another fan argued that this is why TV classics shouldn’t be rebooted. “Paramount yet again revives a beloved older series, just to kill it with little fanfare, essentially killing the original show’s legacy,” they said. “Let’s just not to begin with maybe?”
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Other fans weren’t sorry the new Frasier got the boot.
“Good writing makes all the difference in a series, and this reboot didn’t have it,” one viewer observed. “The main issue is, the humor is no longer witty, just basic sitcom banality. Also, Frasier no longer has tangible connections to those around him, other than Freddie. The entire setup is flawed.”
And another was more blunt in their response. “Awful platform. Series unwatchable,” they wrote. “Good riddance.”
Though Paramount+ opted not to order a third season of the new Frasier, producer CBS Studios plans to shop the revival to other outlets, according to Deadline. Broadcast sibling CBS isn’t an option, since it’s programming slate is full, but Prime Video and Hulu might be contenders since they both stream the original Frasier.
Variety, meanwhile, imagines a world in which NBC, the home of the original Frasier, rescues the revival in an effort to rebuild its Must-See TV comedy block.
Lead star Kelsey Grammer told Variety in 2023 he wanted “another 100 episodes at least” of the revival. “There’s enough groundwork laid between these human beings; they are wonderful characters. I want to see where they go. And I want to see what happens to Frasier.”
The new Frasier starred Grammer as psychiatrist Frasier Crane as he leaves Seattle to return to Boston, where the character made his debut on Cheers. There, Frasier embarks as a third act while moving in with his son, Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott).
Developed by writers Chris Harris and Joe Cristalli, the series also starred Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s old college friend Alan Cornwall, Toks Olagundoye as Harvard psychology department chair Olivia Finch, Jess Salgueiro as Frasier and Freddy’s neighbor Eve, and Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew David Crane. Original Frasier stars, like Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith), Peri Gilpin (Roz), and Harriet Sansom Harris (Bebe), made guest appearances throughout the two seasons. The creators wanted more Cheers folk to appear in a possible Season 3.
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I enjoyed the reboot and thought the second season was much better than the first. I was looking forward to an even better third season. I'm sorry to see it go.
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When CBS showed the first two eps, I remember enjoying them though not as much as the originals. If it continues, I may eventually watch the whole run on DVD...
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I am quite disappointed at this news. I believe the reboot would have succeeded had it been placed on the CBS broadcast schedule. I loved it and the characters especially season 2. The reboot does not detract from the original, it simply continued the Frasier fun. I had hoped that more original cast members would make appearances. CBS seems to make too many poor decisions when it comes to comedy. Cancelling the Frasier reboot is just another one.
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Exactly right!
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No, of course it’s not as good as the original, which is one of the best sitcoms of all time. But there is so little comedy on tv anymore and it did make me genuinely lol. I enjoyed the characters. I hope it continues; we all need all the laughs we can get these days.
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Im a serious fan of the original show of Frasier and have many respects to all the cast .
I get annoyed hearing people say "it's not the same Frasier wheres Daphne where's Niles?"
It's like dude we know what happened with Niles and Daphne we're following Frasier and Frasier's life.
The new series has great potential there's amazing new characters as well as very appreciated Throwbacks and original characters making appearances too.
People need to calm down and appreciate the show for what it is and it has great potential and I feel like it could really succeed if people gave it a fair chance
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roflmao ain,t karma a bitch?
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Frasier did not need a reboot. The original 11 seasons are classics. This reboot was awful.
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It is actually not a reboot but a continuation of Frasier's story. We are looking at at a much older Frasier. Maybe they should of just called the series a different name.
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Broadcast the Frasier reboot on anything but Paramount. Any live TV channel, Netflix, Hulu, Max, Prime Video services people watch. When the Good Wife was cancelled and the reboot went to Paramount instead of a real channel it died because no lone watched it.
Comedians make jokes about Paramount's audience. No one wants to subscribe to an expensive service for something like one popular program. Too many other choices out there.
Frasier is great!
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I see rumors that cbs/paramount + is cancelling the reboot of Frasier.
If this is true you are absolutely insane
The original show won many awards and was very successful.
This reboot is absolutely marvelous and has the potential to succeed as well.
I had actually only had subscribed to paramount+ FOR Frasier almost 3-4 years ago once I saw it was being worked on.
Please realize what you are deciding before an opportunity is missed.
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I'll be sorry to see it go But it's very hard to replace or continue something that was Irreplaceable. I think people were comparing the 2 shows past and present and it's like comparing apples and oranges and it can't be done.
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Kelsey Grammer who plays Frasier can more than handle it it is not to be compared to the original it is just to continuation of Frasiers life Kelsey Grammer has been playing Frasier the character since cheers more than 20 years he IS FRASIER 2nd season top notch by the way
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I’m not surprised I have watched some of the episodes but honestly don’t care for it. It lacks everything that the original series had. I felt the story was mostly boring with lackluster writing and I could tell how the episode was going to go from the first minute or two down to how it would end. Most of the characters weren’t really that interesting either with the only returning character I saw was Roz. In my opinion this series could’ve been saved by changing 2 things. First don’t have him become a professor at the college but have him purchase a radio station either one that was dying or an abandoned one that was going to be torn down. Then you could have him continue being a radio host with Roz or possibly that doesn’t work and they decide to turn the station into a podcasting studio and his radio show becomes a podcast. I think that would have worked to show how the industry has changed since the show began. The second is a simple one, have more returning characters then just Roz. Not having David Hyde Pierce return as Niles really hurt the show. The chemistry between them was way better then him and the British guy who I can’t remember his name and don’t care enough to look him up. I would like to see the show continue but it would need to change a lot for me to get into it. My wife liked it though so this is a bummer for her!
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The reboot really missed the family chemistry between Frasier, Niles and their father. The reboot had frasier with no other stand out characters. Boston wasn’t really shown unlike in the original, where you could actually see outside fraiser’s condo and they would take the story outside on the streets of Seattle. And the actor choices for Freddie and Nile’s son were awful. Neither one was funny. Sure you can blame the writing but damn neither one has good comedic timing, delivery or even the slightest idea about physical comedy. It’s supposed to be a comedy. It wasn’t funny one bit.
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They were hamstrung by David Hyde Pierce not coming back even though it's set in Seattle - they were INSEPARABLE brothers, now it's weird they are not always in contact ... S1, the writing was me'h but it was bad casting, NO ONE on that series outside of Kelsey could tell a joke or make a line funny. Maybe the worst supporting cast ever. By a few eps in, they realized they need to brig in the old cast as guest stars because we liked the characters and they could make even an average joke funny. Most likely it was Paramount being cheap, let's low ball the rest of the cast and what you get are random background actors. Paramount is the Walmart of streaming.
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It was great seeing Frazier and catching up...but the reboot had to many holes to fill in the back story of the new characters and the Freddie/Frazier connection never was....
Watch the original and enjoy ...just don't worry about the reboot.
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What do I think? I think that there are haters at Paramount+ who don’t like Kelsey Grammer’s point of view. I’m confident that CBS will pick up the new Fraiser.
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I'm currently rewatching the original series and I must say that I enjoyed parts of the reboot but found it unnecessary. I think being canceled blows as it won't get a proper send-off but I'm not super bent outta shape about it.
Loved the cast, props to them but shoehorning his "old college friend" in there just didn't work for me. Bringing og characters back was nice but felt premature. Roz made sense, they were clearly close by the end of the show but as funny as bulldog and chesty are it was such a stretch to make up a reason to bring em on.
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