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Kelsey Grammer paid tribute to his former Cheers co-star George Wendt, who died earlier this week at age 76. He died peacefully in his sleep. Grammer called in to Gayle King’s SiriusXM show to speak about his former co-star’s legacy. “It was a bit of a surprise,” he said of …

George Wendt, the actor and comedian best known for playing Norm Peterson on the classic sitcom Cheers, died Tuesday, May 20. He was 76. A rep for Wendt confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. An exact cause of death was not given, though the rep said Wendt “died peacefully in …

The final scene of Cheers — whose series finale aired 32 years ago tonight — is a master class in how to end a beloved, long-running show properly. It’s just Sam Malone and the rest of the gang hanging out, smoking cigars, swapping stories, and reminding the audience why this …

It’s 2024 and our troubles are all the same: The cast of Cheers have reunited at the 2023 Emmy Awards on Monday night. The cast — Ted Danson, Rhea Pearlman, Kelsey Grammer, and John Ratzenberger — appeared onstage behind their infamous bar, with George Wendt doing his signature “Norm!” arrival. …

There’s some obvious good news about this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards. The show, hosted by Anthony Anderson, and dedicated to celebrating 75 years of television for the 75th annual Emmy ceremony, was about as solid and entertaining as modern awards telecasts get: lots of nostalgia, lots of reminders of why …

There’s a joke in the fourth episode of the Paramount+ revival of Frasier that is not the worst to be found in this new take on Kelsey Grammer’s famous psychiatrist Frasier Crane, because there are unfortunately a lot of bad ones to choose from. But it typifies the biggest problem …

It was an impossible job. Nobody could do it. Few would even want to try. Kirstie Alley pulled it off. This was the fall of 1987. Shelley Long had just left Cheers, the wildly popular, influential NBC sitcom that was built entirely on the scorching, hilarious romantic chemistry between Long’s …

Kirstie Alley’s castmates on the long-running sitcom Cheers fondly remembered their coworker and friend as “brilliant,” “unique and wonderful,” and more following her death from cancer at the age of 71. As People reports, the show’s lead Ted Danson (who played bar owner Sam Malone) noted in a statement that …