When the Paramount+ subscription -exclusive Frasier revival aired its first season last year, only two other familiar faces from the original Frasier also stopped by: Bebe Neuwirth’s Lilith Sternin and Peri Gilpin’s Roz Doyle. The latter appeared in the Season 1 finale, and once Season 2 starts airing on the 2024 TV schedule , we’ll see Gilpin reprise Roz in multiple episodes . In a conversation with CinemaBlend, Frasier ’s showrunners opened up about the “organic way” they brought the character back, but I was also touched in my interview with Gilpin about the positive experience she had with her new costars.
First, when I was speaking with showrunners Chris Harris and Joe Cristalli, I asked the men if it was always the plan for Roz to be featured more if Frasier got renewed for a second season, as well inquired about how they came up with her narrative for this batch of episodes. Harris told me the following: Kelsey and obviously Peri have such a great relationship. It was always the idea that we would bring her on a little bit more.
The first season...
obviously we did bring her in for the last episode, but we wanted to make sure that we established our own characters first. And then also, we wanted to make sure we had an organic way to bring her in, that it wasn’t suddenly like we were just jamming in a character from the old show for no reason. Joe, Kelsey and I, we all worked together to make sure that there was a natural reason, and what we came up with i.