Frasier Reboot Almost Showed Martin’s Funeral, Showrunners Describe Scrapped “Seattle First Act”

The Frasier reboot pilot almost featured Frasier Crane back in Seattle with the rest of the original cast for Martin Crane’s funeral. When Frasier starts his next act in Boston, he is fresh from losing his father. Inspired by the demise of John Mahoney in 2018, the new Paramount+ show gets the news out of the way immediately, and while the revelation doesn’t bog down the episode, it looms large in it, especially since the Frasier reboot is about Frasier fixing his own relationship with his grown-up son, Freddy.