Kelsey Grammer Thinks Canceled ‘Frasier’ Revival Deserves ‘Better Home’ After Lack of Promotion

Kelsey Grammer is hopeful that Frasier will be revived again — but he isn’t interested in bringing the show back on Paramount+.

“There’s a better home for it,” Grammer, 70, told The New York Post on Thursday, March 6. “I think they gave it sort of a good try, but they weren’t particularly passionate about the project. I mean, obviously, they didn’t really promote or spend much time on it.”

Grammer didn’t rule out another return, adding, “We’ll end up somewhere where people are passionate about it … Listen, it’s got a huge audience, a big following, and if people know where to find it, I think they will.”

The original Frasier series, which aired from 1993 to 2004, served as a spinoff of the hit sitcom Cheers. It followed psychiatrist Frasier Crane (Grammer) as he returned to his hometown of Seattle as a radio show host while reconnecting with his family.

Paramount+ revived the show in 2023 with stars Grammer, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro and Anders Keith. Grammer told Variety at the time that he wanted a “sillier” version of the famous sitcom.

“There’s enough groundwork laid between these human beings,” he said about hoping to do “another 100 episodes” at least. “They are wonderful characters. I want to see where they go. And I want to see what happens to Frasier.”

The revival was ultimately canceled earlier this year. Despite Frasier not returning to Paramount+, Grammer wants a future installment to feature his former Cheers costar Ted Danson.

“Ted and I might actually visit something together, we’ve been talking about it,” Grammer teased. “A couple ideas, maybe on Frasier. We don’t know, but there is still certainly something, some fields to be mined there, in terms of that relationship, as long as it’s still a relevant relationship it’s still relevant for the show.”

The duo costarred on Cheers before reuniting on Frasier. A potential collaboration between Grammer and Danson, 77, wouldn’t feature Cheers, with Grammer adding on Thursday, “[It] will not come back, [cocreator] Jimmy Burrows has always said, ‘No, that bar doesn’t exist anymore.’”

Grammer also addressed his fallout with Danson, which they discussed on Danson’s “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” podcast late last year.

“It got a little blown out of proportion. It really wasn’t an argument. It was at a time in my life when I was actually going through a lot of self-doubt, self-loathing, honestly,” Grammer explained at the time. “It was when I was drinking a lot. Ted had just come up and said, ‘You know, I’m kind of mad at you that sometimes you don’t show up ready to go.’”

He added: “Maybe what happened for Ted was, he stepped away from what might have been a better friendship. Maybe he had to protect himself.”

Fraiser is currently streaming on Paramount+.