{"id":882646,"date":"2026-10-15T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882646\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:52:11","slug":"kelsey-grammer-returning-to-nbc-as-star-of-emt-drama-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/882646\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsey Grammer Returning To NBC As Star Of EMT Drama (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Twenty two years after the end of Frasier, Kelsey Grammer<\/a> is set to star in another potential NBC<\/a> series, this time a drama. Grammer is headlining and executive producing Pops<\/a>, which has entered development at the network. It is written by longtime Chicago Med writer-produced Danny Weiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Pops, Grammer plays the title character, a man aged out of a successful career who, in desperate need of a fresh start, jumps into the chaotic world of emergency medicine alongside first responders half his age.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project is based on the true-life story of Ed Levien, a Maryland resident who became a volunteer EMT in his 60s after a successful career in advertising. Nicknamed \u201cPops\u201d by his younger colleagues, he spent 12 years as EMT until retiring last fall at the age of 76.<\/p>\n

\n\tPops draws parallels to ABC\u2019s The Rookie, about LAPD\u2019s oldest rookie, which also was based on a real person changing careers midlife. It also shares some similarities with the CBS sitcom Carol\u2019s Second Act, starring Kelsey\u2019s Back To Your co-lead Patricia Heaton as a divorced mom with adult children who goes to med school and becomes a 50-something medical intern. (Grammer guest starred alongside Heaton.)<\/p>\n

\n\tWeiss and Levien executive produce Pops alongside Grammer and Jordan McMahon via Grammer\u2019s Grammnet NH Productions and 3 Arts Entertainment. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio. <\/p>\n

\n\tGrammer has straddled comedy and drama throughout his career. His hourlong series credits include Starz\u2019s Boss and Amazon\u2019s The Last Tycoon. At NBC, he is being reunited with his Frasier co-star David Hyde Pierce, who is starring in a multi-camera comedy in development<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tGrammer was a fixture on NBC for more than two decades playing psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane across three series, Cheers, spinoff Frasier and Wings. The role, which he recently revisited for Paramount+\u2019s Frasier revival, earned him four of his five Emmys. <\/p>\n

\n\tGrammer will be seen in the upcoming film Avengers: Doomsday, out in December, reprising his MCU role as Dr. Henry \u201cHank\u201d McCoy. His Grammnet company has produced such series as Medium and The Game. Grammer is repped by UTA and Vault Entertainment.<\/p>\n

\n\tWeiss, a former US Marine, spent 10 seasons on NBC\/Universal TV\u2019s Chicago Med, rising through the ranks from staff writer to co-executive producer. His medical drama experience also includes writing a freelance episode of Fox\/Universal TV\u2019s House, M.D., where he spent four seasons as the in-house medical researcher. Weiss is repped by Echo Lake Entertainment and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Twenty two years after the end of Frasier, Kelsey Grammer is set to star in another potential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[370598,88,118784,1254,319417],"class_list":["post-882646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-danny-weiss","tag-entertainment","tag-kelsey-grammer","tag-nbc","tag-pops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}