‘Frasier’ revival canceled at Paramount+ after 2 seasons

Frasier Crane is looking for a new practice.

The Frasier revival will not move forward on Paramount+, Entertainment Weekly has learned, but CBS Studios will shop it to other networks. 

Starring Kelsey Grammer as his beloved Cheers psychiatrist, the new iteration of the series launched in 2023 with 10 episodes and found Frasier moving from Seattle to Boston to bond with his son Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott). The series’ writers opted to surround Frasier with a new cast — including Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro, and Anders Keith — while stars of the original series like David Hyde Pierce and Jane Leeves never appeared on the show.

Though she was absent for most of the revival’s first season, Peri Gilpin reprised her Frasier character, Roz Doyle, in the season 1 finale and guest-starred in five episodes of season 2. 

Additionally, Bebe Neuwirth reprised her Emmy-winning role as Dr. Lilith Sternin — Frasier’s ex-wife, who appeared on both Cheers and the original Frasier — in episode 7 of season 1. She did not return for the second season. 

Other notable guest stars across Frasier‘s 20-episode revival included Yvette Nicole Brown, June Diane Raphael, Rachel Bloom, and Amy Sedaris.

The original Frasier ran for 11 seasons on NBC, from 1993 to 2004. It won 37 Primetime Emmy Awards and was among the most-watched sitcoms of the 1990s.

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Gilpin reflected on returning to play Roz in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “I just loved getting to do it,” the actress said in 2023. “It was a fantasy come true to play that part again and to go back into that world.”

She also noted the poignance of returning to the Frasier world without John Mahoney, who played Crane’s dad, Martin Crane, and died in 2018.

“There’s bittersweet things because it makes me so sad when I think about John. I miss him,” she said. “They go back to John every chance they can and they refer back. They refer back to Cheers. They refer back to our first Frasier, and I feel like we’re kind of a part of it. It felt very comfortable there, and wonderful, and it was really funny. It’s like a comfort when you watch it. You’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, I get to see this again. It’s new, it’s fresh, but I am getting the same feelings I got from watching it the first time.'”