Frasier has returned to television — and luckily for fans of the original series, he hasn't changed at all.
"Fraiser is back ... and he's basically the same," says the trailer for the revival of the hit NBC series set to debut on Paramount+, which sees the witty therapist attempting to improve the relationship with his son, Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott).
The official trailer shows Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is back with all his pretentiousness, somehow made charming, perhaps because of the supporting characters who never shy from bringing him down a peg. And while Frasier may be the same, there are some notable differences in what has been described as the "third act" of the series. For starters, he's in a new city, back home in Boston, after the original show saw him transplanted to Seattle. The supporting characters are different as well, though it's clear from the brief look we've been given that their role as challengers to Frasier's grandiosity remains intact.
"What is about the city of Boston that leads me to forego the more sophisticated temptation of the fermented grape?" he asks his new pals over a mug of beer. "Sitting here with a cold brew in my hand, I feel amalgamated with the hoi palloi."
"You are the classic everyman," quips Alan Cornwall (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst), Frasier's friend from college who is now a professor.
Joining Grammer and Lyndhurst is Jack Cutmore-Scott as Frederick "Freddy" Crane, Frasier's son, who was played by Trevor Einhorn in the original show; Anders Keith as David Crane, Frasier's nephew who was born in the original series finale and is the son of Niles and Daphne; Jess Salgueiro as Eve, Freddy's roommate; and Toks Olagundoye as Olivia, the head of an Ivy League university psych department.
The sitcom is set to premiere October 12 on Paramount+.
