Ever since it was revealed that Paramount+’s Frasier revival would be set in Boston, there’s been speculation about whether the new show will ever show Dr. Frasier Crane revisiting Cheers, his old watering hole. While the new Frasier’s premiere episode did see Kelsey Grammer’s title character admitting he used to spend too much time “at a certain bar” back in the day, that’s been the extent of referencing the show that paved the way for the original Frasier spinoff. Now Grammer has shared his reasoning for why the Cheers bar won’t appear in the revival, and I have mixed feelings about this.
With just a few episodes left to go until the Frasier revival’s first season concludes, Grammer spoke with Variety about his work on the new show Paramount+ subscribers can easily stream. Interviewer Michael Scheider brought up how director James Burrows, who co-created Cheers, helmed many episodes of the original Frasier and returned to direct the revival’s first two episodes, believes that the new series should never show the Cheers bar again. Grammer agrees with this, saying:
