Hank gets yanked
Kelsey Grammer loses another comedy series as the ABC Network cancels Hank, and a Nine acquisition is cut short.
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Kelsey Grammer has just lost another comedy series with ABC cancelling Hank, in which he plays a Wall Street executive who loses his job and reconnects with his small-town family.
The show will stop production after wrapping up at episode 10.
Just five episodes have aired in the US where it aired as the only traditional sitcom amid single-camera series.
But neither critics nor audiences warmed to the show.
In Australia it is one of Nine’s acquisitions, which might now have to re-think whether to shift the show to the summer season (and it may have already planned just that) or GO!
After the axing of Back to You -still too early for some of us- it seems Kelsey Grammer was so darned believable as Frasier that audiences are having a tough time seeing him beyond that role. Time for a dramatic role?
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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Jason – I was just thinking the same thing about Grammar.
He is a raving Republican just like Dean Cain, Patricia Heaton and Angie Harmon!
And guess what! All of them have had their shows cancelled !
FOX never should have axed Back To You. As KFed said, it was finding its feet and I blame FOX for not giving it the chance it needed to grow. Now Kelsey fails with Hank. Perhaps drama may be the way for him next.
As Kelsey is probably the only raving repulican in Hollywood (well him and Dean Cain) he should see if he can score a talk show at Fox News!
Didn’t like back to you but i caught a few hanks when i was in america, and i enjoyed it. It had a frasieristic ring to it. Plus it had Zoe from Eureka as his daughter.
@dave – what does his personal wealth have to do with things? he’s been in the business a long time on 2 hit shows if he’s not a millionaire I’d seriously be firing his business manager or agent.
IMO with Hank they tried to use the current events to base a show on which is always fraught with problems especially when were talking about the economy.
I’m sure after these 2 misses he has given a return of Frasier a little more than just a passing thought…
Is it not bad enough that his family seem to continue to die in horrible ways?
I actually liked Back To You. It hadn’t fully found its feet, but there were a lot of laughs.
Sorry David – I should credit the idea to its original source – your thought for Kelsey to move into drama. Great diverse blog – many thanks for the mix of items.
Loved Frasier but have no sympathy for a multi millionaire who’s latest show goes belly up. He earned obscene amounts of money during his 11 years on Frasier. I appreciate that he wants to work and stay in front of the camera – but only an over inflated ego would expect every series to be an iconic one. I like Shelly and Belinda’s suggestion of drama for him. 20 years of playing Frasier Crane predictably leaves him pigeonholed. Worse things can happen!
His role as The Beast in X-Men 3 was serious! (Ho-ho!)
david. what i should have said was. it’s hard to go fom such a huge hit like frsier was to bring in a new show in the same format. sitcoms. these days
Maybe he should go on Damages like Danson did. I could see him playing an evil business man or lawyer.
Defintely drama – Kelsey was brilliant as Death in Medium!
I just don’t think he’s really that funny. I love Cheers, but there were other characters that held the show and made it funny. Never a fan of Frasier, and Back to You was pretty terrible too.
i loved frasier it was such a great show, but it really is hard to get people attention with spinn offs of successfull shows like that. just look at joey and married with children
Damo, Frasier was a spin off. Hank wasn’t.
ITA that Kelsey Grammer has been some what type cast after just a long run as Frasier Crane on both Cheers and then Frasier.
I didn’t like it at first but it was growing on me, hope they air the other 5 eps over the winter break in the US or GO! airs all 10 sometime next year.
Kelsey rammer? 😮
sucks to see him lose another show though.
Unfortunately, Kelsey has boxed himself into a corner and is suffering from being typecast as Frasier. He was so damned good over so many years as Frasier Crane that I would have difficulty warming to him in another role. I feel for him, as I can only imagine how frustrating this must be for him, but he is not the only TV actor to suffer from such trenchant typecasting. He should probably go back to theatre for a while and not worry about a TV project for the immediate future.
It is hard to see past Frasier Crane when you see him on the TV, that’s for sure… It’s hardly surprising – this and Back to You were too 90’s feeling – too sitcom-y – too strained…
I hope he finds something cos he’s a talented guy.