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Grammer’s shrink’s back

FRASIER, TVNZ+, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13

It’s easy to groan – or roll your eyes in a Niles Crane-like way – about the new series of being yet another spin-off, or a case of streamers desperate to hook viewers pining for the good old days. But in American sitcoms, spin-offs go back a way. In the 1970s, and had multiple spin-offs and, of course, the original was aSomehow, the further adventures of Kelsey Grammer’s Dr Frasier Crane became the greatest sitcom spin-off ever.

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