CONTACTAbout UsCAREER OPPORTUNITIESADVERTISE WITH USPRIVACY POLICYPRIVACY PREFERENCESTERMS OF USELEGAL NOTICE
© 2025 Pride Publishing Inc.
All Rights reserved
All Rights reserved
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.
After some brief talk of keeping the show going for a 12th season next fall, NBC said Monday that its five-time Emmy-winning comedy Frasier will call it quits in May. This was widely assumed to be its last season, but in recent months Kelsey Grammer, who has portrayed the high-strung psychologist Frasier Crane for 20 years since the character originated on Cheers, had said he was open to continuing. "The finances would not have worked for another season," said NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks. Frasier won the Emmy for best comedy for five straight years, from 1994 to 1998. Its exit means that NBC will go into next season without both of the popular urbane comedies that have defined it as a network for the past decade. The last episode of Friends will also air in May. Frasier lost popularity as it aged, but it remained a mainstay on Tuesday nights for NBC, averaging 11.1 million viewers a week. The network has tried, and failed, to develop other long-lasting hit comedies. The show's ratings slide has continued despite a critical revival this season when the original writing team of Christopher Lloyd and out scribe Joe Keenan returned after being gone for three years. "It will end on a high note," Marks said. NBC was paying Paramount, the show's producers, an estimated $5.2 million per show licensing fee. As with most long-running shows, costs were mounting and there was discussion of Grammer taking a pay cut to continue another season. This season marked two milestones important to Grammer: His 20-year run playing Frasier Crane--a character introduced during the third season of Cheers--ties James Arness of Gunsmoke for the longest stretch an actor has played a single character in prime time. Frasier will also have lasted 11 seasons, the same duration as Cheers.
From our Sponsors
Most Popular
31 Period Films of Lesbians and Bi Women in Love That Will Take You Back
December 09 2024 1:00 PM
18 of the most batsh*t things N.C. Republican governor candidate Mark Robinson has said
October 30 2024 11:06 AM
True
After 20 years, and after tonight, Obama will no longer be the Democrats' top star
August 20 2024 12:28 PM
Trump ally Laura Loomer goes after Lindsey Graham: ‘We all know you’re gay’
September 13 2024 2:28 PM
Melania Trump cashed six-figure check to speak to gay Republicans at Mar-a-Lago
August 16 2024 5:57 PM
These 13 major companies caved to the far right and stopped DEI programs
January 24 2025 1:11 PM
True
Latest Stories
Lawsuit challenges Trump's executive order targeting gender-affirming care
February 04 2025 7:58 PM
Fearless + Fighting Back: Lambda Legal’s plan to protect LGBTQ+ and HIV rights
February 04 2025 6:04 PM
e.l.f. Beauty CEO defends DEI: 'Our diversity is a key competitive advantage'
February 04 2025 5:19 PM
Trump moves to abolish Education Department amid push against 'wokeness'
February 04 2025 2:50 PM
Donald Trump's DOT will prioritize areas with higher 'marriage and birth rates'
February 04 2025 1:42 PM
Kim Davis is back in court because she doesn't want to pay a gay couple
February 04 2025 12:27 PM
Amber Ruffin to headline 2025 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But, will Trump attend?
February 04 2025 11:49 AM
Transgender author Jennifer Finney Boylan: The fight is not over
February 04 2025 11:24 AM
Rep. Sarah McBride denounces Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks on transgender people
February 04 2025 11:19 AM