Frasier Stars, EPs Talk Season 2’s Return to Seattle, the Moment That Got Kelsey Grammer Emotional

Frasier is back in his Seattle radio booth — and yes, he’s listening.

Kelsey Grammer’s titular shrink went back to his old KACL stomping grounds this week on the Paramount+ revival, accompanied by his producer pal Roz and reuniting with former colleagues Bulldog (Dan Butler) and Gil Chesterton (Edward Hibbert). And for the episode, Frasier recreated the radio set from the original series down to the last microphone cord… even though Grammer himself wasn’t moved to tears by the results.

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“Everybody else” was awed by stepping back onto the radio set, Grammer tells TVLine in the video above, but “I was just like, ‘Yeah, it’s a set. What’s the problem?’ So many people coming up going, ‘Oh my God, to see this place again…’ I’m like, ‘It’s not the same place! It’s a set!'” He does admit, though, to getting emotional when he said Frasier’s signature line once again: “When I did sit down in the chair and say, you know, ‘Hello, Seattle. This is Dr. Frasier Crane. I’m listening’… that got me.”

The recreated set was all the work of production designer Glenda Rovello and her team, executive producer Joe Cristalli raves: “They didn’t have blueprints. They just watched the show, and she just recreated it, which is crazy… It felt like they just pulled them out of storage.”

But Frasier didn’t go back to Seattle just to say hi to some old friends. He wanted to show his son Freddy “what his life was then,” EP Chris Harris explains. “I think Frasier was looking for a little bit of maybe like justification… ‘Maybe you understand why I was in Seattle, versus being there with you.'” He also notes that the visit made Roz — who’s still working at KACL — reevaluate things as well, leading to “a little bit of a conversation about: What do you want at that stage of life? And a little bit of reflection there.”

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