Joe Keenan returns for the final season of <i>Frasier</i> (8604)

Writer-producers Joe Keenan and Christopher Lloyd, who guided Frasier through most of its successful years, will return as executive producers for the sitcom's 11th and final season, reports Variety. The two will share showrunner duties with Frasier's current executive producer, Dan O'Shannon. Keenan and Lloyd have also signed a new two-year, seven-figure production and development deal with Paramount Network Television to create, develop, and executive-produce projects after Frasier's departure. The openly gay Keenan has numerous credits as both a TV producer (Bram & Alice) and author (Blue Heaven).