‘Frasier’ revival canceled at Paramount+ after 2 seasons

Frasier Crane is looking for a new practice.

The Phrases revival will not go forward on Paramount+, Weekly entertainment has learned, but CBS Studios will shop it to other networks.

Starring Kelsey Grammer as his lover Bowl psychiatrist, the new iteration of the series launched in 2023 with 10 episodes and found Frasier moving from Seattle to Boston to bond with his son Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott). The show’s writers chose to surround Frasier with a new cast – including Toks Olagundoye, Jess Salgueiro and Anders Keith – while stars from the original series such as David Hyde Pierce and Jane Leeves never appeared on the show.

Although she was absent from most of the revival’s first season, Peri Gilpin reprized her Frasier character, Roz Doyle, in the Season 1 finale and guest starred in five episodes of Season 2.

In addition, Bebe Neuwirth reprized her Emmy-winning role as Dr. Lilith Sternin – Frasier’s ex-wife, who appeared on both Bowl and the original Phrases — in episode 7 of season 1. She did not return in the second season.

Other notable guest stars across Phrases‘s 20-episode revival included Yvette Nicole Brown, June Diane Raphael, Rachel Bloom and Amy Sedaris.

The original Phrases ran for 11 seasons on NBC, from 1993 to 2004. It won 37 Primetime Emmy Awards and was among the most-watched sitcoms of the 1990s.

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Gilpin reflected on returning to play Roz in an interview with Weekly entertainment. “I just loved getting to do it,” the actress said in 2023. “It was a fantasy come true to play that role again and get back into that world.”

She also noted that it was embarrassing to return to Phrases world without John Mahoney, who played Crane’s father, Martin Crane, and died in 2018.

“There are bittersweet things because it makes me so sad when I think about John. I miss him,” she said. “They go back to John every chance they can and they refer back. They refer back to Bowl. They refer back to our first frasier, and I feel that we are part of it. It felt very comfortable there, and wonderful, and it was really fun. It’s like a comfort when you see it. You say, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to see this again. It’s new, it’s fresh, but I get the same feelings I got from watching it the first time.”