Kelsey Grammar won’t have David Hyde Pierce at his side when he returns in the Frasier reboot later this year. Instead, he’ll have as his co-lead actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, whom British fans will know has all the requisite experience and know-how to set up the gags in a TV double act.
Lyndhurst played Rodney, younger brother of Del Boy Trotter, in UK sitcom Only Fools and Horses, which ran for more than 20 years, including specials.
The Christmas feature-length episode in 1996 drew 24.3 million viewers, still one of the UK’s highest ever television audiences.
Grammer told the UK’s Times of his British co-star: “Nick and I fell in love when we were doing Man of La Mancha together [at the London Coliseum in 2019].
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