Euphoria executive producer Ron Leshem flew into Spain this week and recalled how Hollywood had initially turned down the HBO hit over concerns about teenage lead characters.
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Frasier – check it out above.Led by showrunners Chris Harris and Joe Cristalli, the revival series sees Kelsey Grammer return as Frasier, alongside Jack Cutmore Scott as Frasier’s son Freddy, Nicholas Lyndhurst as university professor Alan and Toks Olagundoye as Alan’s colleague, Olivia.Other cast members include Jess Salgueiro as Freddy’s roommate Eve and Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew David.Ahead of the show’s premiere on October 12 in the US, a behind-the-scenes look at the series will be released on October 6 on Paramount+. The half-hour special, Frasier: Inside The Series, is hosted by Kevin Frazier and features interviews with the cast and creators behind the revival.A synopsis for the series reads: “Dr.
Frasier Crane begins the next chapter of his life in Boston and has new challenges to face, new relationships to forge, and an old dream or two to finally fulfill.”As revealed by Cheers co-creator James Burrows, the pilot episode will feature a tribute to John Mahoney, who died at the age of 77 in 2018. The actor played Frasier’s father Martin Crane in all eleven seasons of the original show from 1993 to 2004.“It’s a wonderful scene at the end of the show,” Burrows, who directs the first two episodes of the reboot, told Entertainment Weekly.
“It’s about two-and-a-half, three minutes without any laughs. You’ve got to be brave to do that.”Grammer also serves as an executive producer on the series, alongside Tom Russo and Jordan McMahon.Frasier’s first two episodes premiere October 12 in the US and October 13 in the UK on Paramount+.
Euphoria executive producer Ron Leshem flew into Spain this week and recalled how Hollywood had initially turned down the HBO hit over concerns about teenage lead characters.
Jessica Chastain is being honored!
EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has promoted Lamar Chase to SVP, Current Programming. Reporting to EVP Current Programming Marie Jacobson, who heads the indie studio’s current scripted series department, Chase will continue to work alongside Morgana Cabrera-Rosenberg who was promoted to SVP, Current Programming in March.
The BBC’s royal correspondent who was famously described by the King as an “awful” man, is retiring after nearly five decades with the corporation. Veteran broadcaster Nicholas Witchell, who has covered the royal family since 1998, will retire next year after joining the broadcaster as a graduate news trainee in 1976. In 2005, the then Prince of Wales, was caught on a microphone making remarks about Nicholas, who had asked a question about the royal’s upcoming nuptials to Camilla Parker Bowles during a photoshoot in the Swiss Alps.
Frasier writer Joe Keenan has addressed an apparent plot hole that has long irked many fans.The comedy series is due to return to screens this month after nearly two decades off air, with Kelsey Grammer back as therapist Frasier Crane.One point that many viewers have questioned over the years is how the character became so wealthy on a local radio presenter’s salary, notably given his lavish apartment, and taste for expensive sherry and designer suits.“The question has come up,” Keenan told Metro, before explaining: “We think Frasier made a lot of money in private practice in Boston, and he has investments. What we imagined to be the salary of a local radio personality was perhaps a little bit inflated.”He further noted of Frasier’s brother Niles’s lifestyle: “On the other hand, when you looked at Niles and his house with Maris, this baronial mansion that Niles lived in, Frasier’s apartment didn’t seem all that…“In addition to it, we’ve lived on that set, and it wasn’t that big when you actually stepped onto [it].
Paramount+ has released two key art images for the upcoming sequel to the Emmy-winning comedy series Frasier, which debuts Oct. 12. Both posters feature the title character front and center. In fact, the sequel’s star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer, who is reprising his signature character as Frasier Crane, is the only cast member from the sequel pictured.
English actress Stephanie Leonidas is making her Hallmark Channel debut while playing Amy in the new film A Very Venice Romance and you might be curious to learn more about her personal life!
Masterpiece is offering a sneak peek of All Creatures Great and Small, which returns January 7, 2024.
Kate Middleton tapped into her mother side and had some fun with a young girl during a sensory class in Sittingbourne, England on Wednesday (September 27).
Naman Ramachandran A first trailer has been unveiled for Indonesian filmmaker Yosep Anggi Noen’s “24 Hours With Gaspar.” The film will world premiere at the Busan Film Festival where it is in the prestigious Jiseok competition. Set in 2032 and based on the novel of the same name by Indonesian author Sabda Armandio, the film follows Gaspar, a private detective with 24 hours to live, who finds clues about the mysterious disappearance of Kirana, his childhood friend.
NME about how the situation is “as dire as it can be” with more than one grassroots venue closing in the UK every week.Last week NME reported that the UK stood to lose 10 per cent of its grassroots music venues in 2023, as calls grew louder for the “major leagues” of the music industry and larger venues to do more to pay into the ecosystem and save them.Now, the MVT has doubled down on that call as well as shared an open letter to demand that the UK Government extends business rate relief for its members after 78 music venues closed their doors over the last 12 months, with many more set to follow.“Between us finishing our report at Friday at 5pm and coming back at 10am on Monday morning, two more venues closed,” MVT CEO Mark Davyd told NME, paying tribute to Jimmy’s in Liverpool and The Brass in Hastings, which both announced their closure on Saturday (September 23) and Sunday (September 24) respectively.A post shared by Jimmy's (@jimmys)Davyd continued: “Our report shows that we’ve gone from 960 venues in October of last year to 835 that are actually operating. That’s 125 less and a 15.7 per cent decline.
Kelsey Parker has broken her silence on her boyfriend’s jail history, saying "everyone has a past". The 32 year old mum-of-two was left heartbroken last year after her husband, The Wanted star Tom Parker, tragically passed away from brain cancer, aged just 33. Kelsey is now in a relationship with 39-year-old Sean, who is an electrician.
Jessica Chastain is clearly taking sides amid the messy divorce and custody battle that is brewing between former couple Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas.
Gavin Newsom said in an interview today that he has been “deeply involved with talking” to both sides of the long-running Writers Guild strike and “we’re going to be meeting again later this week.”
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce probably knew he would get a lot of kidding when he revealed that he tried to give Taylor Swift a friendship braclet with his phone number on it when he attended her Kansas City concert.
Paramount+’s “Frasier” revival, airing on the streamer come Oct. 12 with the first two episodes. A teaser for the new series dropped today and features the “X-Men: The Last Stand” actor, 68, stepping into the shoes of his longtime character once again.Grammer has played Frasier in the hit NBC sitcom “Cheers” from 1984 until 1993.He then had his own eponymous spin-off show that was broadcasted on the network from ’93 until 2004.And almost 20 years later, the stiff and pretentious Dr.
Frasier is back!
Dr. Frasier Crane, the master of sophisticated sass, is returning triumphantly to the small screen.
Michaela Zee Frasier is back! Paramount+ has released the official trailer for the “Frasier” revival, starring Kelsey Grammer as the titular psychiatrist once again. Per the official description, “the new series follows Frasier Crane (Grammer) in the next chapter of his life as he returns to Boston with new challenges to face, new relationships to forge and an old dream or two to finally fulfill. Frasier has re-entered the building!” In addition to Grammer, the cast includes Jack Cutmore-Scott as Frasier’s son Freddy; Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s old college buddy turned university professor Alan; Toks Olagundoye as Olivia, Alan’s colleague and head of the university’s psychology department; Jess Salgueiro as Freddy’s roommate Eve; and Anders Keith as Frasier’s nephew David.
Only Fools and Horses icon Nicholas Lyndhurst looks completely different in the new Frasier reboot. He is set to appear as a new character in a reboot of US comedy Frasier, where he will join the show's original star Kelsey Grammer as his old college friend-turned-university professor Alan Cornwall.The actor, 62, is making his return to the small screen for the reboot of popular comedy series just years after the death of his son Archie in 2020 following a brain haemorrhage. But Nicholas is already a household name thanks to his illustrious TV career and is best known for playing Rodney Trotter in the legendary sitcom, Only Fools and Horses.