Paul B’s proposed pilot for Roz, which he pitched in a Frasier Online thread on May 9, 2006, picked up from there. In Frasier’s series finale, Roz (played by Peri Gilpin) was promoted to station manager of Seattle talk-radio station KACL, where Frasier had hosted a show. While bingeing Frasier Seasons 3 and 4 during a vacation, the teen, who went by “Paul B” on the now-defunct forum Frasier Online (lifetime Paul B posts: 7,281), conceived of a spinoff centered on his favorite Frasier character, Roz Doyle, Frasier’s faithful friend and radio producer. So I think when we got off and went off the air, I think everybody was very satisfied with what we had done, and there was no talk that I knew of of either spinning a character off from Frasier or of continuing Frasier in some other form.”Ī little less than two years later, though, a teenage Frasier fan took it upon himself to do what Casey and his writing partner (and fellow Frasier cocreator) David Lee didn’t. “We were all proud of that show, and you don’t want to stay on stage too long. “When the show was going off the air, I think all of us felt, The show is going off the air,” said sitcom lifer Peter Casey, the cocreator, writer, and producer of Frasier and Wings, and a former writer and producer of The Jeffersons and Cheers, on which Frasier first appeared in 1984. When Kelsey Grammer’s sitcom psychiatrist Frasier Crane left the building for the last time on May 13, 2004, ending Frasier’s run after 11 seasons, 264 episodes, and a then-record 37 Emmys, everyone involved in making the show was content to turn out the lights. In the spirit of Too Much TV, The Ringer has decided to explore a ’90s sitcom that holds a particular fascination in the streaming era. The weekend after Thanksgiving is a time for eating leftovers and bingeing television.

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