Writers come home to Frasier

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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NBC’s veteran sitcom Frasier is going back to its roots with the
return of writers Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan and Jeffrey Richman as executive
producers and Rob Greenberg as creative consultant, all Emmy Award winners, executive producers and creators Peter Casey and David Lee said Monday.

"Any show would be thrilled to be adding writers of this caliber, and it’s
especially true for Frasier," said Ted Frank, senior vice president of
current series at NBC.

Lloyd, Keenan, Richman and Greenberg join a slate of other executive
producers and writers on the show who will shepherd it through its 11th and
likely last season.

Frasier has won a record-setting five consecutive Emmy Awards for best
comedy and, with 30 statues, the show is the most Emmy-awarded in television
history.

Frasier has also won Golden Globe awards, the 1994 Peabody Award, a
People’s Choice Award, three consecutive Television Critics Association Awards
and the Humanitas Prize.

Frasier is a Grub Street Production in association with Paramount Network
Television.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.