Rebooting 90's shows seems to be becoming a thing with news that plans are afoot to not only bring bring back Buffy but now the brilliant Frasier as well.
I have three concerns for this, the first being the same as Buffy in that Frasier was near on perfect the first time around and so high was the bar that it could never live up to that standard.
Secondly, John Mahoney, who played Frasier's father Martin, died in February and he was a vital cog in the show, the counterfoil to his high-brow, pompous children and without him an integral part will be sadly missing.
Thirdly, the problem is Kelsey Grammer himself who only has to look at Roseanne Barr to see where any possible reboot is heading.
Frasier came off the air 14 years ago, before Twitter and Facebook became the downfall of so many celebrities and Grammer is a die hard Republican and Trump advocate and in an age when old Tweets resurface to destroy reputations, Grammer is going to be moving into a very uncomfortable spotlight.
In 2015 Grammer Instagrammed a photo of himself wearing a T-shirt that likened abortion to gun violence which should be enough to give any executive cold feet about the whole idea and avoid the potential cost and hassle of another Roseanne.
That said i would love to see the excellent David Hyde Pierce back on our screens, a very under-estimated comic actor, but while my heart hopes they do go ahead with it, my brain says leave it in the past because it just can't be anywhere near as good as it was the first time around.
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