The show Frasier is remarkable in that it is one of few spin-offs that managed to achieve equal or greater success as it’s origin show. Before Frasier Crane was a bachelor radio psychiatrist in Seattle, he was a regular at the Boston bar Cheers and a family man. Despite sharing some similar characters, the two…
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Seinfeld is the more revolutionary show in modern television history, challenging established formulas and popularizing new ones. Famously referred to as the show about nothing, show runners Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld crafted an absurd comedy with larger than life characters that stills remains tied down to reality. The show finds a basis in Seinfeld’s…
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The Twilight Zone is one of the most iconic shows of early television, launching countless copycat anthology series and several reboots. Rod Serling’s monologue introducing each episode may be the most famous aspect of the show but the content was just as groundbreaking. Mixing science fiction, horror and social commentary, the show transcends genre fiction…
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‘Frasier’ may have started as a spin-off of cheers but quickly gained an identity of it’s own. Not only did in round out Kelsey Grammer’s lovable but pretentious radio psychiatrist, but it introduced a plethora of other great characters, including his equally elitist brother Niles, and their ex-cop father Martin, who acts as a foil,…
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