You watched it in syndication, correct?Ĭristalli: Yeah, it was a little bit before my time. Joe, you didn’t watch it when it was on air. For a long time, it was just like, “Oh God, I hope he picks us.” Then a couple of years went by and he picked us, a couple more years went by the show finally started getting up. We wrote the pitch together, we wrote the pilot together and then Kelsey heard, I don’t know, 30 pitches, and we were one he heard. ( Laughs.) But it wasn’t like I was doing all the work and Chris was just sitting there for clout. Yeah, I’m played by Clint Eastwood.Ĭristalli: I’m Michael Cera. My agent was like, “Yeah, well, they’re not going to do it with you, but do you know anybody that’s done this a while and knows what they’re doing?” So I called Chris.Ĭhris Harris: Bring in the old guy. I went and met with them, and before I even got back to my car, I had an email from one of the guys at Grammnet saying, “Yeah, we can’t give you Frasier. At the time, I was a staff writer on Life in Pieces, or maybe a story editor. I sent that Twitter feed to my agent and she was like, “Okay.” She sent it to Grammnet and they met with me. I thought it’d be fun.īut then Kelsey came out in the news and said he wants to do a revival of the show. I wasn’t doing just the Twitter as a parody. It wasn’t a very big following - I had like 2,000 followers. And I did it for three years and nobody really cared. Joe Cristalli: Years after it ended, I started a Twitter feed called Frasier For Hire, which my joke was I want to get hired on Frasier. How did you two get on Kelsey Grammar’s radar? But there’s one blast from the past they will always welcome.įrasier‘s series finale aired in May 2004. Co-creators Cristalli and Harris talk to THR below about why there’s next to nothing of the original that will appear in the new series. Frasier’s fresh start begins.Īlthough Crane is back in Beantown, he will not be visiting a bar where everyone knows his name. Before the night is over, Crane says yes to Boston, Harvard and being a better father to Freddy. The evening Crane is prepared to have “a deep dive about their relationship,” the dinner unexpectedly welcomes Cornwall, Freddy’s friend/roommate Eve (Jess Salgueiro) his nephew David (Anders Keith), Daphne and Nile’s son and Harvard psychiatry department head Olivia Finch (Toks Olagundoye), who’s overtly trying to convince Crane to join the Ivy League as a lecturer. A conversation with an old Oxford buddy and fellow psychiatrist Alan Cornwall (Nicholas Lyndhurst) led him to the truth he’s been avoiding: He needs a new connection with son. As he tries making amends, the gap between them widens. Crane (Grammer) returns to Boston for an extended layover and unannounced visit to his estranged son Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott), who’s skipped his Harvard academics for a less-illustrious career as a firefighter. 'Abbott Elementary' Bosses on Pulling Off That Season 3 Premiere Cameo and Vetting Guest Star Requests: "Sometimes It's Very Hard to Resist"
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