“Frasier” redux? Can we really go back to Seattle?

Kelsey Grammer has confirmed that Paramount Plus, formerly CBS All Access, has approved a revival of the wildly popular and much awarded comedy.

But is this a good idea? The original writers and producers aren’t coming back. None of the original cast has been signed, and Jane Leeves has indicated she’s happy on a new series called “The Resident.”

Grammer knows that “Frasier” only worked because it was an ensemble. David Hyde Pierce, Leeves, Perry Gilpin and the late John Mahoney were a perfect repertory group. Plus Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith.

When the show ended, Frasier was seen flying off to a new life in Chicago with Oscar nominated actress Laura Linney as his intended soulmate. His dad, Martin, married his girlfriend played by Wendie Malick. Niles and Daphne were happily married.

So now what? They could say that Chicago life didn’t work out and Frasier has returned to Seattle single. Linney is probably too expensive for this series. But aside from Mahoney and Malick, the core characters would have to return. Also, there’s a chance for Frasier and Lilith’s son, Frederick, now out of college, to be a central character.

But this was tried and did not work with “Murphy Brown” when that revival was attempted. Murphy’s son, Avery, was a disappointment. The stories were shrill and so was the old cast. It was better to remember them fondly than see them in their dotage.

Again, like “Murphy Brown,” “Frasier” worked as a well oiled machine. I’m not so sure this will be more than a one season return to a past best left alone.

Are fans tiring of NBC’s “This is Us”?

Last night’s ratings fell 13% from last week to the lowest of the season– 4,997,000. The episode basically tied with a rerun of “FBI” over on CBS.

The soapy hour is a three hanky weeper every week, with someone dying, or babies being born against all odds, and actors wearing bad makeup to look 20 or 30 years older. The only thing that keeps this mortifying experience afloat is actor Sterling K. Brown, who makes the most ridiculous dialogue sound like Shakespeare.

I don’t know the particulars of last night’s cryathon but I think three babies were born and Griffin Dunne was made to look like Methuselah. And it was February sweeps. Maybe the numbers will come back in delayed viewing.

And yes, Jack is still dead. I think NBC owes Milo Ventimiglia a series of his own.

“The Bachelor” is in a ratings crater as scandal and apathy have just killed the mood.

The Matt James season, the first ever with a Black bachelor, is a disaster, and not just because of racism.

But last night’s loony episode fell 5% from last week in total viewers and 16% in the key demo. On average, “The Bachelor” is down by a million viewers from its last go round.

I watched it for the first time ever last night to see if Matt James would figure out one of the contestants, Rachael, was a racist. He didn’t. The 29 year old focused on a lovely young Black woman, age 24, who turned out to be very smart: she knew something was off with James, told him to forget it, and left the show.

The result was a hilarious rose ceremony at which James had to tell the remaining three ladies– including Rachael– that Serena was gone because she didn’t want to marry him. His whole attitude was, “Well, there are three of you left and one of you is going to have to marry me.” Isn’t it romantic?

As we know, he chooses the white racist instead of the vastly superior two Black ladies. But they don’t get engaged, according to reports, and then the news breaks that Rachael is Plantation Patty. And that’s the end of that relationship. But we have to wait two or three more weeks for all that to wrap up.

Congrats to that girl Serena, the real winner of the season. I also really liked her parents. They’ve obviously done a great job.