Showing 1 - 15 of 19 articles tagged "Cheers"

• Posted Tuesday 1/29/19 at 5:30PM EST

  Abby's isn't fazed by the Cheers comparisons

  “It’s a nice comparison, but I think our show is much better,” creator and showrunner Josh Malmuth quipped at the...

• Posted Thursday 10/11/18 at 7:53PM EDT

  Steve Carell jokes that The Office cast should reunite for a Cheers reboot

  “I’ll play Sam Malone and Rainn (Wilson) will be Frasier Crane," he said at the premiere of his new movie...

• Posted Wednesday 9/26/18 at 6:40PM EDT

  Ted Danson would not be up for a Cheers revival: "Playing Sam Malone was an anathema to me for the longest time"

  "It'd be a bunch of people in their 70s in a bar going, 'What? What? A horse walked into a...

• Posted Friday 9/14/18 at 11:17PM EDT

  Frasier turns 25: Read an oral history of NBC's "Must-See TV" pioneering Cheers spinoff

  Creators David Angell, Peter Casey and David Lee followed a simple mantra in creating Frasier: "no stupid jokes, no stupid...

• Posted Friday 5/18/18 at 11:54PM EDT

  Why Cheers still matters 25 years after its series finale

  Cheers ended its 11-season run on May 20, 1993 with 93.

• Posted Wednesday 5/16/18 at 11:25PM EDT

  Here are the most notorious failed spinoffs based on characters from hit shows

  Friends spinoff Joey, Party of Five spinoff Time of Your Life and Columbo spinoff Mrs.

• Posted Wednesday 5/02/18 at 10:57PM EDT

  Is Superstore the millennial version of Cheers?

  The current NBC workplace comedy shares a lot of similarities with the classic NBC comedy, says Brett White, who considers Superstore...

• Posted Tuesday 4/17/18 at 1:41PM EDT

  Harry Anderson: An appreciation

  The magician-turned-sitcom star only appeared on Cheers as Harry the Hat six times, yet it felt like more because he...

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  Posted Monday 4/16/18 at 7:30PM EDT

  Night Court's Harry Anderson dies at 65

  Anderson, who is best known for presiding over the NBC hit sitcom Night Court as Judge Harry Stone for nine...

• Posted Thursday 4/05/18 at 12:48AM EDT

  NBC boss on revivals: The Office and The West Wing could come back, but not Friends or Seinfeld

  "We can't just reboot everything," said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt, referring to what he calls the "reboot genre.

• Posted Monday 4/02/18 at 9:51AM EDT

  James Burrows on reviving Cheers: "The cast is too old"

  The legendary TV director and Cheers co-creator says he's happy for Roseanne's big ratings, but he doesn't see his classic...

• Posted Monday 3/26/18 at 10:29PM EDT

  Was Cheers stolen?

  A new Boston Magazine article breathes new life into "The Cheers Conspiracy" that the classic sitcom was a ripoff of...

• Posted Saturday 2/03/18 at 12:50AM EST

  The Good Place Season 2 finale gave Ted Danson a brief Cheers moment

  Danson looked at ease behind the bar on Thursday’s episode.

• Posted Tuesday 1/09/18 at 8:32AM EST

  John Ratzenberger doesn’t think a Cheers revival will happen: “I don’t think they want a bunch of geezers sitting at the bar”

  "I would love to see it, and I think the cast would, too," says Ratzenberger.

• Posted Friday 1/05/18 at 11:08PM EST

  Did millennials kill the hangout sitcom?

  Shows like Friends and Cheers are hard to recreate nowadays because younger viewers are too distracted by technology.