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Frasier Crane returns to Beantown in the first season of the Frasier TV show on Paramount+? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Frasier is cancelled or renewed for season two. Paramount+ and other streaming platforms, however, collect their own data. If you’ve been watching this TV series, we’d love to know how you feel about the first season episodes of Frasier here. *Status Update Below.
A Paramount+ comedy series, the Frasier TV show is a follow-up to the original 1993-2004 sitcom. In this new series, former radio show host and psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (Grammer) has just wrapped up a successful stint hosting his own television show and 20 years in Chicago. His long-term relationship has also come to an end. On his way to Paris to work on his next book, he stops in Boston to check in on his firefighter and distant son, Freddy (Cutmore-Scott). He first catches up with his old college friend, Alan Cornwall (Lyndhurst), a psychology professor at Harvard. He meets Alan’s department head, Olivia Finch (Olagundoye), who thinks it would work to her advantage to hire Frasier for a teaching position. Frasier’s socially awkward nephew, David Crane (Keith), is a student in the department thanks to a recommendation from Alan. Frasier surprises Freddy at his apartment and once Freddy’s roommate Eve (Salgueiro) arrives, it’s clear that the two are hiding something. After a night of misdirection, Frasier wants to continue to reconnect with his son so he decides to relocate to Boston, take the job at Harvard, and maybe even fulfill an old dream or two.
What do you think? Which season one episodes of the Frasier TV series do you rate as wonderful, terrible, or somewhere between? Do you think Frasier on Paramount+ should be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Don’t forget to vote, and share your thoughts below.
*2/23/24 update: Frasier has been renewed for a second season on Paramout+.
The premise of the series is just not plausible. Frasier was a radio Shrink in Seattle and then a TV shrink in Chicago. Retired and very wealthy, travels to Paris with a stop in Boston to connect with his son who quit Harvard to become a firefighter. Instead of traveling to Paris, he gets an offer from Harvard to be a professor. It’s not plausible that Harvard University would offer a TV shrink a professor job, it’s like Dr, Phil getting a professor job at Harvard. The rest of the show is overacted and the setting is cheap looking. The… Read more »
I am a big fan of the original Frasier. What is missing? Frasier now dresses like a slob. Where is the nice suites?? If the original Frasier saw the new, he would be all over him for dressing so poorly! The next thing is the lack of intellectual jabs for those who are not up to snuff.
This household was a huge fan of the original FRASIER series. Love Kelsey Grammer. We did enjoy the new series beginning, although we are sad the original cast won’t be on. The writers from the original show were so great! We hope the writing does better after these two episodes. Falls a little flat, needs to step up to the plate. The new cast is just okay. The other fire fighters in the bar are great! We are sad that this will be put on pay TV as we will NOT be watching it! Please bring this to free CBS… Read more »
Watched episode 1 & 2. Not exactly what I was expecting. Canned laughter is annoying, and I don’t like Freddy’s character at all. Frasier’s old college friend is okay, but he’s not like Nile’s…he’s too jaded and not very likable. Nile’s son, David, is written as a stupid bumbling moron who is not adorable or endearing, just annoying. Overall, less enjoyable than I was expecting. I’ll watch a few more episodes simply because I was a huge fan of the original series, so I want to give this one a fair chance. I’m a Kelsey Grammar fan, and he does… Read more »