KELSEY’S NOT HAPPY
KELSEY Grammer is slamming “Frasier” producer Paramount and NBC for not telling him the show was being moved back to Tuesday nights this fall.
“It did come as a surprise, because I had been in touch with Paramount executives and I was assured that we were not moving,” Grammer tells the June 17 issue of TV Guide.
“I have a feeling that they were not completely forth coming with me,” he says. “In the world of network decisions, personal feelings don’t count. I’m just glad that I have something else to focus on.”
NBC surprised a few industry veterans when it decided to replace warhorse “Frasier” at 9 p.m. Thursdays with upstart “Will & Grace,” entering its third season.
“Frasier,” which debuted in 1993, originally aired on Tuesday nights but had anchored NBC’s “Must-See TV” Thursday-night lineup the past two seasons after “Seinfeld” left the air in May 1998.
NBC had chosen “Frasier” over “Just Shoot Me” for the 9 p.m. slot leading into ratings blockbuster “ER.”

