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Kelsey Grammer wants Frasier co-stars back for reboot

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Photo credit: Bill Reitzel/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

From Digital Spy

Don't worry Frasier fanatics, any possible reboot won't be Niles-less.

Kelsey Grammer is currently working with the show's production company CBS Television Studios on a pseudo-reboot of the classic sitcom that would see Dr. Frasier Crane relocating from Seattle to a new city.

The project is still in its early stages, but Grammer has assured TheWrap that he has spoken with several of his former co-stars about being a part of the new show.

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Photo credit: Chris Haston/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

"I let them know if there were to be such a thing, I would want them all to still be in there," he said.

Grammer is presumably referring to original Frasier mainstays David Hyde Pierce (aka Niles), Jane Leeves (Daphne Moon) and Peri Gilpin (Roz Doyle). Sadly, Frasier's on-screen dad John Mahoney passed away earlier this year.

At the TCA press tour on Thursday (August 2), Grammer reaffirmed that he'll only move forward with the project if the right pitch comes along, considering the logistical issues that it would take to get it on the air.

"The only thing going for it is that he was a great, memorable character. It was a great show," he said.

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Photo credit: NBC

The original Frasier series aired on NBC, but was produced by CBS Television Studios.

Last summer, NBC chairman Robert Greenblatt told reporters that he'd had "conversations" with series co-creator David Lee about a revival, although nothing came of it at the time.


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