Ted Danson has said sorry to his Cheers co-star Kelsey Grammer for a feud that lasted three decades.
The actors first worked together on the 80s sitcom in which Ted, 76, played bar owner Sam Malone and Kelsey, 69, was psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane.
However, The Good Place actor expressed regret that he had ‘missed out on 30 years of friendship’ with Kelsey after tension on set.
Speaking to Kelsey on the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, Ted said: ‘This isn’t self-deprecating, but I wish … I feel like I got stuck a little bit with you during the Cheers years. I have a memory of getting angry at you once.’
Kelsey replied: ‘Yeah, you came and told me that one day.’
Ted continued: ‘And it’s stuck in both of our memories. But I feel like, f***, I don’t know. I missed out on the last 30 years of Kelsey Grammer, and I feel like it’s my bad, my doing, and I almost feel like apologising to you.
Kelsey responded: ‘We may chat about that another time.’
He added that Ted had ‘said something wonderful’ when he turned 40 – that he was finally worth having a conversation with – and he now said this to friends.
Frasier Crane grew in popularity throughout Kelsey’s stint on Cheers, and his spin-off – which first aired in 1993, went on to become one of the most acclaimed comedies in TV history, landing 37 Emmys during an 11-year run.
Ted did reprise his role as Sam in a guest appearance on Frasier (Picture: NBC via Getty Images)
He went on to reprise his role last year in the revival, alongside Nicholas Lyndhurst, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Toks Olagundoye, Anders Keith and Jess Salgueiro.
Cheers is now reportedly getting the reboot treatment – but in the UK. It originally ran for 11 seasons from 1982 until 1993.
The comedy, widely regarded as one of the best ever, followed Ted’s character Sam, a former baseball player, and the staff and Boston regulars at his bar Cheers.
This time though, it’ll be adapted for a UK audience, and even set in a pub.
According to Deadline, production company Big Talk is in the early stages of pitching Cheers to British broadcasters, after CBS studios gave permission for an adaptation.
Chief executive Kenton Allan said it was a ‘huge honour’ to be entrusted with the beloved comedy, but worries he ‘might be insane’, after other reboots have flopped.
‘The British pub is an endangered species, so there’s an answer for the “Why now?” about it,’ he said.
‘The attitudes of Cheers in the ‘80s are very different to the attitudes of today, so there’s a massive amount of work to be done around taking inspiration from the original characters but creating something fresh.’
While it may be returning to screens, Kelsey confessed he once thought it was a ‘terrible show’.
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