Plate up the tossed salads and scrambled eggs: Frasier is returning to the building again after 19 years away, and three new images have landed ahead of the sitcom’s return. There’s a good one of Frasier back at his piano – a piano which he’ll presumably have hauled all the way from Seattle back to Boston, where the reboot takes place and where Frasier first appeared in Cheers – and looking very much like he’s about to slam out some smooth jazz. A second introduces a couple of new characters: Jack Cutmore-Scot playing Frasier’s often-mentioned son Freddy, and The Boys’ Jess Salgueiro as Freddy’s flatmate Eve.
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Then there’s the one which has piqued the interest of people in the UK most. Frasier sits around in a bar with Toks Olagundoye’s Olivia, another new character who’s running an Ivy League university’s psychiatry department, and a very tweedy-looking Nicholas Lyndhurst. Lyndhurst plays Alan Cornwall, one of Frasier’s old buddies from college who’s now moved up in the world to become a professor himself. Looks like they let him keep a few bits and pieces from the set of Goodnight Sweetheart, too.
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What to expect? The official blurb promises “new challenges to face, new relationships to forge, and an old dream or two to finally fulfil” – so maybe he’ll finally get to match that half-court Hail Mary that Niles drained that one time – while the tiny sting at the end of a new teaser is even less specific. “No more callers,” it says. “All new hang-ups.”
The Frasier revival will stream on Paramount+ from 12 October.