Frasier star Kelsey Grammer returns in first trailer for Paramount+ revival series… as the debonair psychiatrist reunites with his grown son in Boston

Kelsey Grammer is back as his most iconic character in the first official trailer for his new revival of Frasier.

The Paramount+ series, which finds the eponymous psychiatrist relocated in Boston after leaving his home in Seattle, charts his attempts to restart his relationship with his grown son Frederick ‘Freddy’ Crane (Jack Cutmore-Scott).

Along the way, Grammer, 68, gets in plenty of jokes about Frasier’s hoity-toity mannerisms while hanging out with his similarly educated pals at a bar.

Although the new Frasier is ostensibly a revival of the popular 1990s and 2000s series of the same name, it features few of the original cast members aside from its star.

Missing from the new ensemble are John Mahoney, who played Frasier’s father and died in 2018, David Hyde Pierce, who costarred as Frasier’s brother Niles, and Jane Leeves, who played Niles’ future wife Daphne. 

Reunited and it feels so good! Along the way he attempts to restart his relationship with his grown son Freddy Crane (Jack Cutmore-Scott)

Frasier, who was first introduced to audiences on the massively popular sitcom Cheers before getting his own spin-off series, shares his son Freddy with his ex-wife Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth).

The mother–son duo had originally lived in Boston during the original show’s timeline, though Neuwirth and the original Frederick actor Trevor Einhorn made guest appearances on the series.

By the time of Frasier’s East Coast move, Freddy is now all grown up and living with his roommate Eve (Jess Salgueiro).

Frasier highlights his new location in the opening lines of the trailer, while also alluding to his history as a bar regular on Cheers.

‘What is it about the city of Boston that leads me to forego the more sophisticated temptation of the fermented grape?’ he says haughtily as he holds a mug of beer.

‘Sitting here with a cold brew in my hand, I feel amalgamated with the hoi polloi,’ he declares proudly.

‘You are the classic everyman,’ jokes his friend Alan Cornwall. Nicholas Lyndhurst plays Alan, a college friend of Frasier’s who is now a professor in Boston.

Relocated: Frasier highlights his new location in the opening lines. ‘What is it about the city of Boston that leads me to forego the more sophisticated temptation of the fermented grape?’ he says haughtily

Having a laugh: ‘Sitting here with a cold brew in my hand, I feel amalgamated with the hoi polloi,’ he declares proudly. ‘You are the classic everyman,’ jokes his friend Alan Cornwall in reply