'Frasier' Revival Keeps Peri Gilpin’s Roz To Recur For Season 2

 

Roz Doyle is officially sticking around and calling again. Peri Gilpin is set to recur on Paramount+’s revival of Frasier after guest-starring in the first season’s finale. Production on the second season is officially underway. 

Gilpin was an ever-present series regular as Roz for all 11 seasons of the original series, as Frasier Crane's producer for his radio show The Dr. Frasier Crane Show out of KACL-AM 780. She had been in the business for ten years before working with Dr. Crane for the show, and gave birth to a daughter named Alice in the fifth season. In the series finale, she becomes manager of KACL when her predecessor Kenny Daly steps down to return to DJing, and prompts Frasier to head to Chicago on his own way. She’s still implied to be in Seattle when she visits Frasier in last season’s finale for his first Christmas after the death of his father. 

After Frasier spent the near 20 years since the original series finale as a talk show host in Chicago, his father’s death triggers his move back to Boston to reconnect with his grown son, Freddy, played by Jack Cutmore-Scott. He brings along his Harvard-attending nephew David, played by Anders Keith. Alan, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, is an old Oxford buddy who persuades him to stay in town and become a Harvard psychology instructor, introducing him to department head Olivia, played by Toks Olagundoye. Jess Salgueiro also stars as Freddy’s friend Eve, a single mom who becomes his ex-roommate when Frasier poaches him from across the hall.

James Burrows who co-created Cheers and directed nearly all of its episodes and that of Frasier, directed the first two episodes of the revival and will be back for two more this season. This new pbase comes from writers Chris Harris and Joe Cristalli, who executive produce with Grammer, Tom Russo, and Jordan McMahon. The original series was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee.

Source: Variety