Do people really want to watch this? “Frasier Revival Is Attempting to Woo Back the Original Cast.” It’s not that I want to keep Kelsey Grammer from working (it might keep him from making projects like MONEY PLANE!*); it’s just that I don’t know if people really do watch these things.
I’m legitimately curious about that, in fact. What TV show revival was successful enough to spark imitators? The only one I can think of was the Roseanne one, and the way that that whole thing blew up kind of obscures whether the show would have survived. Other than that, I’m drawing a blank.
Moe Lane
*Hey, you never know.
I have two general comments.
1. Frasier was a revival – of classic American tv and short film comedy. Dick van Dyke, Carol Burnett, old Warner Bros cartoons. Not original, but executed with precision and love. It was great work.
2. My millennial sons are huge fans, with no encouragement from their parents at all. There’s a fresh market.
I hope they pull it off.
New Leave it to Beaver? No
Munsters Today? No
Munsters (again – with Eddie Izzard pre-tits!)? not even out of pilot.
Odd Couple? Three seasons, but….no
New Love Boat with sad, bald Robert Urich? No.
New Murphy Brown? nononono
CSI and Law & Order have shown franchising works, but true revivals need to stay on the stage and off the screen.
Battlestar Galactica. I remember a *lot* of people being doubtful about that project.