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Kelsey Grammer got emotional when ‘Frasier’ returned to Seattle for Season 2 episode
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An interview with Kelsey Grammer about the “Frasier” reboot on BBC Radio ended abruptly. The host of the show thinks he knows why it happened.
“Frasier” is heading back to Seattle in Season 2.
Kelsey Grammer’s Boston-based Dr. Frasier Crane will return to his talk show radio roots at KACL in Seattle for an episode in the new season, which returns Sept. 19 with a two-episode Paramount+ premiere.
The Seattle homecoming − the setting for the original “Frasier” that ran for 11 seasons on NBC until 2004 − required an entirely new set to be built for the KACL radio studio. Crane frequently opened the original “Frasier” episodes in the host’s chair of his radio call-in show.
“At first I was like, this is just a set, nothing was really happening to me,” Grammer tells USA TODAY of filming the homecoming. “But that was before I sat down in that chair.”
At that point, Grammer stopped talking, explaining that he is “an emotional guy” prone to sudden bursts of sentimentality.
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Which original ‘Frasier’ stars will return for the Seattle episode?
The return to Seattle revolves around Crane’s former radio show producer Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin), who will be a recurring guest star on Season 2 of “Frasier.”
The Seattle episode will include original “Frasier” luminaries such as Dan Butler as Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe, host of the KCAL Gonzo Sports Show, and Edward Hibbert as Gil Chesterton, host of KCAL’s “Restaurant Beat” show. Harriet Sansom Harris, who starred as Frasier’s devilish agent, Bebe Glazer, will also return for the episode.
The revamped “Frasier” will primarily be back in Boston in Season 2, where “Cheers” alum Crane has set up a new life as a Harvard professor and drinking with his university friends Alan (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Olivia (Toks Olagundoye) at a new bar Mahoney’s.
Which ‘Cheers’ stars will appear on ‘Frasier’ Season 2?
Grammer says he hopes to have his former “Cheers” co-star Ted Danson, who played bar owner Sam Malone, and Shelley Long, who played Crane’s love interest Diane Chambers, appear on the new “Frasier.”
“I have always nursed a longing for doing a show with Shelley Long to have closure with Diane in some strange way,” Grammer told a panel of the Television Critics Association on Wednesday. “I’d love to see that happen. There’s a world of this character’s past that needs to be put to rest.”
But Grammer said that Crane would never travel across town to go back to Cheers, saying that his former bar is essentially “closed” in the eyes of “Cheers” creator James Burrows.
“There’s a sense of respect that we owe him and the idea (“Frasier”) exists in another world,” says Grammer. “It’s gone, the bar is gone.”
Burrows, who directed the first two episodes of the new “Frasier,” will also return to direct two more episodes on Season 2.
The original “Frasier” still holds the record for most Emmy wins for a comedy series, with 37 wins and 107 nominations. On Wednesday, the new “Frasier” and Grammer missed out on major nominations ahead of the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Need to shred? Free drive-up/ride-up shredding Wednesday at Village Green West Seattle
With the tax deadline just past, you might have old paper documents you’re ready to shred and recycle. Just announced – a chance to do that for free this Wednesday (April 22), 1-4 pm!
Got sensitive documents piling up at home? We’ve got you covered! Join us for a FREE community shredding event with Liberty Shredding at Village Green West Seattle!
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WEST SEATTLE WEATHER: Warm day, but far below record
Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
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Mets place former Seattle Mariners 2B/DH Jorge Polanco on IL
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
Seattle Sports staff made additions to this post.
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