Kelsey Grammer to Star in 'Frasier' Reboot Series for Paramount+

EXCLUSIVE: Venerable sitcom director James Burrows has been tapped to direct and executive produce the pilot episode of ABC’s straight-to-series multi-camera comedy starring Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer and Alec Mapa, from Modern Family co-creator/executive producer Chris Lloyd, executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran and studio 20th Television.

Actor/puppeteer Jonathan Kidder spends a lot of time at Michelle Obama’s feet — literally — in “Waffles + Mochi,” premiering Tuesday (March 16) on Netflix.He plays Busy Bee, the bespectacled, tie-wearing supermarket manager who interacts with Obama in the educational children’s series, co-created by Erika Thormahlen and Jeremy Conner and executive-produced by Michelle and Barack Obama under their production company, Higher Ground.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWill Forte is attached to star in a drama series in development at Peacock from Harry and Jack Williams.Titled “Expiration Date,” the series is described as a dark suburban soap about Robin (Forte), who, consumed by grief, finds a life insurance policy that covers suicide, provided that the individual doesn’t carry out the deed within one year.

Paramount+ has rounded out the cast of its upcoming new original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as production officially gets underway in Toronto. Babs Olusanmokun (Black Mirror, Dune), Christina Chong (Tom and Jerry, Black Mirror), Celia Rose Gooding (Jagged Little Pill), Jess Bush (Skinford, Les Norton) and Melissa Navia (Dietland, Billions) are set as series regulars in the series based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S.

Natalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o are about to be co-stars!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNatalie Portman and Lupita Nyong’o will star in a series adaptation of the Laura Lipman novel “Lady in the Lake,” which has been ordered straight-to-series at Apple.The series will be co-written by Alma Har’el and Dre Ryan, with Har’el writing the pilot. Endeavor Content is the studio.

Nickelodeon has given an official series greenlight to SpongeBob SquarePants spinoff The Patrick Star Show. Nick has ordered 13 episodes of the animated series centered on SpongeBob’s best friend Patrick Star, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke. The series hails from the creative team behind the mothership series.

Actor-comedian Alec Mapa (Doom Patrol, Ugly Betty) has been cast as the the co-lead opposite Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer in ABC’s straight-to-series multi-camera comedy from Modern Family co-creator/executive producer Chris Lloyd, executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran and studio 20th Television, where Lloyd and Chandrasekaran are under deals.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAlec Mapa has signed on to star alongside Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer in an ABC multi-cam comedy series, Variety has learned.The untitled series revolves around three men who were roommates in their twenties until their warring egos drove them apart. Now, the trio are reuniting decades later for one more run at the lives they’ve always wanted.Mapa will star as Andre, the third roommate from the old days in New York.

Since “GLOW” was unceremoniously canceled after Netflix gave the green light to begin work on a final season, it appears the creators of that show are ready to take their talents to Apple TV+ for anew anthology series, “Roar.” And they’re bringing a pretty amazing cast of actresses with them.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterApple has ordered a new anthology series from “GLOW” creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch with an all-star cast attached, Variety has learned.The show, titled “Roar,” will star Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merrit Wever, and Alison Brie. The anthology is described as a series of darkly comic feminist fables.

Apple TV+ has greenlit female-driven anthology series Roar starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever and Alison Brie.

If you would have asked a “Star Wars” fan a few years ago what Obi-Wan Kenobi did between ‘Revenge of the Sith’ and ‘A New Hope,’ the answer would have been that he was guarding over Luke and making sure he was okay during his childhood. For years, it’s just been assumed that Obi-Wan became a defacto monk for decades between the trilogies.

Prepared to binge-watch? Camille Grammer showed support for ex-husband Kelsey Grammer’s revival of Frasier after one of her fans contemplated skipping the series out of allegiance to her.

It’s the year of the reboot and there’s more great news for telly fans – Frasier is coming back to screens!

, that Frasier is “one of the most acclaimed comedies in modern television history.”He continues, "There has long been a call from fans for its return, and that call is now answered thanks to the amazing Kelsey Grammer reprising his iconic role of Dr Frasier Crane and a brilliant creative plan from Joe, Chris and Kelsey. We can't wait to reveal its next chapter on Paramount+."Since the announcement, fans have been reacting to the news on Twitter.

Frasier is set to be revived on Paramount+.Rumours of the show’s return, which originally ran for 11 seasons between 1993 and 2004 after being created as a spin-off of Cheers, have been circulating over the past few years, and reports of a deal with Paramount first emerged earlier this month.In a statement issued overnight, Grammer – who played title character Frasier Crane in the series – confirmed that Frasier would be returning.“Having spent over 20 years of my creative life on the Paramount

London Grammar star Hannah Reid has opened up about her struggle with fibromyalgia, revealing she suffered a health crisis while recording the band's latest album. The singer told NME.