The Frasier reboot officially premiered on Paramount+ in October. The reboot was years in the making. While its premise is certainly interesting and aims to recapture the original magic of the series, it’s different from what the creators initially envisioned. When the Frasier reboot was first being discussed, the show was supposed to focus on Dr. Frasier Crane and Dr. Niles Crane. When David Hyde Pierce, the actor who played Niles, opted out of reprising his role, the team had to go in a new direction. So, what was the original premise?
The original ‘Frasier’ reboot would have focused on Frasier and Niles
The Fraiser reboot that fans are watching is not the reboot that the show’s creators originally intended. Long before the reboot made it to production, there was a storyline floated around that heavily relied on David Hyde Pierce.
Joe Cristalli, the reboot’s showrunner, spoke...
The original ‘Frasier’ reboot would have focused on Frasier and Niles
The Fraiser reboot that fans are watching is not the reboot that the show’s creators originally intended. Long before the reboot made it to production, there was a storyline floated around that heavily relied on David Hyde Pierce.
Joe Cristalli, the reboot’s showrunner, spoke...
- 11/14/2023
- by Andrea Francese
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
There’s a joke in the fourth episode of the Paramount+ revival of Frasier that is not the worst to be found in this new take on Kelsey Grammer’s famous psychiatrist Frasier Crane, because there are unfortunately a lot of bad ones to choose from. But it typifies the biggest problem the new show has.
Frasier has joined his new Harvard colleagues Alan (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Olivia (Toks Olagundoye) for a night of bar trivia, competing against a team of firefighters led by Frasier’s son, Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott). At one point,...
Frasier has joined his new Harvard colleagues Alan (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Olivia (Toks Olagundoye) for a night of bar trivia, competing against a team of firefighters led by Frasier’s son, Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott). At one point,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
The Frasier reboot has been in the works for a long time. Despite announcements about the project trickling out over the last two years, fans were starting to lose hope that the iconic radio psychologist would ever return to the small-screen. Initially, it looked like the series would be released several months back, but that didn’t happen. Now, it’s happening for real. Paramount+ has officially announced a release date, and it’s just over a month away.
Dr. Frasier Crane will return to the small-screen on Oct. 12
The wait for the Frasier reboot won’t be long now. On Aug. 23, Paramount+ announced that the reboot would hit the streaming service provider on Oct. 12. According to USA Today, the streaming service provider will release the first two episodes for fans to dig into on the premiere date and then release an episode every Thursday until Dec. 7. The season will include 10 episodes.
Dr. Frasier Crane will return to the small-screen on Oct. 12
The wait for the Frasier reboot won’t be long now. On Aug. 23, Paramount+ announced that the reboot would hit the streaming service provider on Oct. 12. According to USA Today, the streaming service provider will release the first two episodes for fans to dig into on the premiere date and then release an episode every Thursday until Dec. 7. The season will include 10 episodes.
- 8/25/2023
- by Andrea Francese
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
I say this without a shred of hyperbole: "Cheers" walked so every other sitcom after it could run. From the Greendale study room of "Community" to Ross and Rachel's never-ending "will they, won't they" relationship on "Friends," NBC's critical and commercial darling about a bar in Boston created the blueprint.
The quintessential ensemble comedy where everybody knows your name, "Cheers" is rich with biting dialogue and big personalities, which kept audiences gripped for 11 years. Sam and Diane's stormy, yet passionate, love affair remains one of TV's all-time great romances, "Norm!" continues on as a greeting for bar regulars, and the sequel series "Frasier" — arguably the most successful spin-off in television history — is set to find new life in the world of streaming. "Cheers" is a timeless show whose influence is still felt 30 years after Sam turned off the lights and locked the door for the last time.
Over its decade-plus run,...
The quintessential ensemble comedy where everybody knows your name, "Cheers" is rich with biting dialogue and big personalities, which kept audiences gripped for 11 years. Sam and Diane's stormy, yet passionate, love affair remains one of TV's all-time great romances, "Norm!" continues on as a greeting for bar regulars, and the sequel series "Frasier" — arguably the most successful spin-off in television history — is set to find new life in the world of streaming. "Cheers" is a timeless show whose influence is still felt 30 years after Sam turned off the lights and locked the door for the last time.
Over its decade-plus run,...
- 10/23/2022
- by Rachel Ho
- Slash Film
Vivien Leigh ca. late 1940s. Vivien Leigh movies: now controversial 'Gone with the Wind,' little-seen '21 Days Together' on TCM Vivien Leigh is Turner Classic Movies' star today, Aug. 18, '15, as TCM's “Summer Under the Stars” series continues. Mostly a stage actress, Leigh was seen in only 19 films – in about 15 of which as a leading lady or star – in a movie career spanning three decades. Good for the relatively few who saw her on stage; bad for all those who have access to only a few performances of one of the most remarkable acting talents of the 20th century. This evening, TCM is showing three Vivien Leigh movies: Gone with the Wind (1939), 21 Days Together (1940), and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). Leigh won Best Actress Academy Awards for the first and the third title. The little-remembered film in-between is a TCM premiere. 'Gone with the Wind' Seemingly all...
- 8/19/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
'Jurassic World' velociraptor kicks Iron Man ass at worldwide box office. 'Jurassic World' officially surpasses 'The Avengers' at worldwide box office Directed by Colin Trevorrow; starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Vincent D'Onofrio; and co-executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, Jurassic World has officially become the third biggest worldwide box office hit in history. The Jurassic Park sequel – or reboot, as it's basically the same story with a slightly different twist – has surpassed Marvel's Joss Whedon-directed all-star superhero flick The Avengers, which broke box office records back in 2012. Of course, "officially" just ain't what it used to be – like, in the days before The Fall. So you wisely ask, "But which movie has actually sold the most tickets?" After all, that's the true measure of a film's popularity. Well, that's a tough one to answer without the studios providing accurate, precise numbers. And that's not about to happen. It always...
- 7/26/2015
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Seventy-five years after the premiere of "Gone With the Wind" (on December 15, 1939), it seems that nothing -- not the passage of time, not the movie's controversial racial politics, not the film's daunting length, and not even the release of certain James Cameron global blockbusters -- can diminish the romantic Civil War drama's stature as the most popular movie of all time.
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
The film is certainly a formidable artistic achievement, a cornerstone of movie history, and a highlight of a year so full of landmark films that 1939 has often been called the greatest year in the history of Hollywood filmmaking. Each viewing of the four-hour epic seems to reveal new details. Still, even longtime "Gwtw" fans may not know the behind-the-scenes story of the film, one as lengthy and tumultuous as the on-screen romance between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). Producer David O. Selznick spent fortunes, hired...
- 12/16/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
It is not really difficult in coming up with cinema siblings and assessing their impact on the films they graced with humor, horror or hedonism. Whatever the combination–brother and sister, brother and brother, sister and sister–the big screen has always produced some of the most compelling siblings to entertain or shock us as the lights go dim at the local cinemaplex.
So who do you favor as your all-time favorite movie siblings? Perhaps you wouldn’t mind brothers Michael and Sam from 1987′s The Lost Boys? Or how about sisters Drizella and Anastasia from the 1950 animated film Cinderella? Maybe you could go for the transformation of television’s Brady kids into the film version of 1995′s The Brady Bunch Movie?
In Sibling Rivalry: The Top 10 Fictional Siblings in Film we will take a look at a group of handful brotherly/sisterly personalities in the world of movies...
So who do you favor as your all-time favorite movie siblings? Perhaps you wouldn’t mind brothers Michael and Sam from 1987′s The Lost Boys? Or how about sisters Drizella and Anastasia from the 1950 animated film Cinderella? Maybe you could go for the transformation of television’s Brady kids into the film version of 1995′s The Brady Bunch Movie?
In Sibling Rivalry: The Top 10 Fictional Siblings in Film we will take a look at a group of handful brotherly/sisterly personalities in the world of movies...
- 6/18/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
‘Gone with the Wind’ actress Alicia Rhett dead at 98; was oldest surviving credited Gwtw cast member Gone with the Wind actress Alicia Rhett, the oldest surviving credited cast member of the 1939 Oscar-winning blockbuster, died on January 3, 2014, at the Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community in Charleston, South Carolina, where Rhett had been living since August 2002. Alicia Rhett, born on February 1, 1915, in Savannah, Georgia, was 98. (Photo: Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.) In Gone with the Wind, the David O. Selznick production made in conjunction with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM head Louis B. Mayer was Selznick’s father-in-law), the stage-trained Alicia Rhett played India Wilkes, the embittered sister of Ashley Wilkes, whom Scarlett O’Hara loves — though Ashley eventually marries Melanie Hamilton (Rhett had auditioned for the role), while Scarlett ends up with Rhett Butler. Based on Margaret Mitchell’s bestseller, Gone with the Wind was (mostly) directed by Victor Fleming...
- 1/5/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in ‘Gone with the Wind’: TCM schedule on August 20, 2013 (photo: Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel in ‘Gone with the Wind’) See previous post: “Hattie McDaniel: Oscar Winner Makes History.” 3:00 Am Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943). Director: David Butler. Cast: Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Dinah Shore, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, George Tobias, Edward Everett Horton, S.Z. Sakall, Hattie McDaniel, Ruth Donnelly, Don Wilson, Spike Jones, Henry Armetta, Leah Baird, Willie Best, Monte Blue, James Burke, David Butler, Stanley Clements, William Desmond, Ralph Dunn, Frank Faylen, James Flavin, Creighton Hale, Sam Harris, Paul Harvey, Mark Hellinger, Brandon Hurst, Charles Irwin, Noble Johnson, Mike Mazurki, Fred Kelsey, Frank Mayo, Joyce Reynolds, Mary Treen, Doodles Weaver. Bw-127 mins. 5:15 Am Janie (1944). Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton,...
- 8/21/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Gone With The Wind Actress Ann Rutherford Dies. [Photo: Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara, Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.]
Ann Rutherford‘s most notable screen roles were in films made away from both MGM and Wallace Beery. She was a young woman who falls for trumpeter George Montgomery in Archie Mayo’s 20th Century Fox musical Orchestra Wives (1942), and became enmeshed with (possibly) amnesiac Tom Conway in Anthony Mann’s Rko thriller Two O’Clock Courage (1945).
Following a couple of minor supporting roles — in the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) at Goldwyn and the Errol Flynn costumer The Adventures of Don Juan (1948) at Warner Bros. — and the female lead in the independently made cattle drama Operation Haylift (1950), opposite Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford retired from the screen. (Rutherford would later say that her Operation Haylift experience was anything but pleasant.)
She then turned to television, making regular television appearances in the ’50s (The Donna Reed Show, Playhouse 90,...
Ann Rutherford‘s most notable screen roles were in films made away from both MGM and Wallace Beery. She was a young woman who falls for trumpeter George Montgomery in Archie Mayo’s 20th Century Fox musical Orchestra Wives (1942), and became enmeshed with (possibly) amnesiac Tom Conway in Anthony Mann’s Rko thriller Two O’Clock Courage (1945).
Following a couple of minor supporting roles — in the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) at Goldwyn and the Errol Flynn costumer The Adventures of Don Juan (1948) at Warner Bros. — and the female lead in the independently made cattle drama Operation Haylift (1950), opposite Bill Williams, Ann Rutherford retired from the screen. (Rutherford would later say that her Operation Haylift experience was anything but pleasant.)
She then turned to television, making regular television appearances in the ’50s (The Donna Reed Show, Playhouse 90,...
- 6/12/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The woman who was Vivien Leigh's stunt double in 1939 epic Gone With The Wind has died.
Hazel Warp stood in for Leigh in all the horseback-riding scenes in the classic and helped to train the horses used in the film.
She also tumbled down the stairs of Scarlett O'Hara's Tara home in a pivotal role in the film.
The 93 year old also featured in beloved movies like Wuthering Heights and Ben-Hur.
It's the second Gone With The Wind-related death in as many weeks - actor Fred Crane, who played one of Scarlett O'Hara's suitors in the movie, passed away on 21 August.
Hazel Warp stood in for Leigh in all the horseback-riding scenes in the classic and helped to train the horses used in the film.
She also tumbled down the stairs of Scarlett O'Hara's Tara home in a pivotal role in the film.
The 93 year old also featured in beloved movies like Wuthering Heights and Ben-Hur.
It's the second Gone With The Wind-related death in as many weeks - actor Fred Crane, who played one of Scarlett O'Hara's suitors in the movie, passed away on 21 August.
- 8/29/2008
- WENN
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[Yt] Amanda Bynes has a little accident. [Hs] Michael Lohan and K-Fed want to fight?! [Hs] Britney Spears won't be performing at the Vma's after all.
[Yt] Amanda Bynes has a little accident. [Hs] Michael Lohan and K-Fed want to fight?! [Hs] Britney Spears won't be performing at the Vma's after all.
- 8/28/2008
- by Sarah Luoma
- Rope of Silicon
It was a long life for actor Fred Crane. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 22nd of March, 2008, Crane spoke his very first line in the legendary "Gone with the Wind." The actor whose career did not consist of much work film-wise, had a stint of small roles in TV series in the mid-to-early sixties. He also was the host of a long-running radio show in L.A. for forty years. He also had a role in Wallace Fox's western action/adventure flick "The Gay Amigo" starring Duncan Renaldo. He passed away at the ripe old age of 90 on August 21st from complications resulting from Diabetes. Crane married five times and is now survived by four children, eight grandchildren and a great-grandson...
- 8/26/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It was a long life for actor Fred Crane. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 22nd of March, 2008, Crane spoke his very first line in the legendary "Gone with the Wind." The actor whose career did not consist of much work film-wise, had a stint of small roles in TV series in the mid-to-early sixties. He also was the host of a long-running radio show in L.A. for forty years. He also had a role in Wallace Fox's western action/adventure flick "The Gay Amigo" starring Duncan Renaldo. He passed away at the ripe old age of 90 on August 21st from complications resulting from Diabetes. Crane married five times and is now survived by four children, eight grandchildren and a great-grandson...
- 8/26/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It was a long life for actor Fred Crane. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 22nd of March, 1918, Crane spoke his very first line in the legendary "Gone with the Wind." The actor whose career did not consist of much work film-wise, had a stint of small roles in TV series in the mid-to-early sixties. He also was the host of a long-running radio show in L.A. for forty years. He also had a role in Wallace Fox's western action/adventure flick "The Gay Amigo" starring Duncan Renaldo. He passed away at the ripe old age of 90 on August 21st from complications resulting from Diabetes. Crane married five times and is now survived by four children, eight grandchildren and a great-grandson.
- 8/26/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It was a long life for actor Fred Crane. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 22nd of March, 2008, Crane spoke his very first line in the legendary "Gone with the Wind." The actor whose career did not consist of much work film-wise, had a stint of small roles in TV series in the mid-to-early sixties. He also was the host of a long-running radio show in L.A. for forty years. He also had a role in Wallace Fox's western action/adventure flick "The Gay Amigo" starring Duncan Renaldo. He passed away at the ripe old age of 90 on August 21st from complications resulting from Diabetes. Crane married five times and is now survived by four children, eight grandchildren and a great-grandson...
- 8/26/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Gone With The Wind star Fred Crane has died of complications from diabetes. He was 90.
The retired actor uttered the epic 1939 movie's opening line. He played Stuart Tarleton, one of Scarlett O'Hara's boyfriends.
Crane only landed a role in the film classic when he accompanied a cousin to an audition, and he wound up playing Superman star George Reeves' twin brother in the movie.
Crane also scored roles in Cisco Kid movie The Gay Amigo, and played a string of TV characters throughout the 1960s. He also hosted a radio show in Los Angeles.
After retiring from showbusiness, Crane, who was married five times, became a businessman and ran guest house Tarleton Oaks in Barnsville, Georgia.
The retired actor uttered the epic 1939 movie's opening line. He played Stuart Tarleton, one of Scarlett O'Hara's boyfriends.
Crane only landed a role in the film classic when he accompanied a cousin to an audition, and he wound up playing Superman star George Reeves' twin brother in the movie.
Crane also scored roles in Cisco Kid movie The Gay Amigo, and played a string of TV characters throughout the 1960s. He also hosted a radio show in Los Angeles.
After retiring from showbusiness, Crane, who was married five times, became a businessman and ran guest house Tarleton Oaks in Barnsville, Georgia.
- 8/26/2008
- WENN
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