Grammer rules out 'Frasier' movie

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Kelsey Grammer has ruled out the possibility of a Frasier movie.

The actor, whose new sitcom Back To You was cancelled earlier this year, says he does not want the show to follow in the footsteps of The X Files and Sex And The City.

"I hope not - it's just bound to be a failure," he said. "I like them on television. I even like Sex And The City on television. I know it had great success.

"But stylistically, the way it's shot, you could kind of buy that it could be a film. It wasn't such a transition in terms of what the actual camera work was, so it was okay."

Grammer added that the style of Frasier - a three-camera setup with a studio audience - would be difficult to adapt effectively to a movie.

"Frasier is rooted in the camera tradition that involves an audience participating. You have to allow that to happen for sitcom for work. And I wouldn't want to see that in film. I think it would be silly and tortured with self-awareness and foolishness," he said.