What to Watch Thursday: Frasier reboot + new Dateline on death of a Wisconsin mom

Brooke Cain
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Here’s what’s on TV tonight.

Dateline: Secrets in Pleasant Prairie (10 p.m., NBC)

“Dateline” has started airing new episodes on Thursday nights. This week’s episode looks at the long quest for justice in the poisoning death of a young Kenosha, Wisconsin, mother, Julie Jensen. Her case takes a surprising turn when detectives learn she wrote a letter days before her death, naming a possible suspect.

Interviews with: Pleasant Prairie Police Department Captain Barry Ollila, former Kenosha County District Attorney Bob Jambois, Private Investigator Dave Ellis, coworkers of Julie’s husband Mark Jensen and others.

How to stream: This will stream on Peacock.

Kelsey Grammer as Frasier, left, and Jack Cutmore-Scott, as Freddy, right, in the Paramount+ reboot of “Frasier.”
Kelsey Grammer as Frasier, left, and Jack Cutmore-Scott, as Freddy, right, in the Paramount+ reboot of “Frasier.”

Fasier (Paramount+)

The reboot of the NBC hit sitcom “Frasier” (1993-2004) hits Paramount+ streaming today. Kelsey Grammer is back as the snooty Seattle psychiatrist, Dr. Frasier Crane, but sadly, David Hyde Pierce does not return as his even snootier brother Niles.

There are lots of great supporting characters, though. In the reboot, Frasier stops in Boston on his way to Paris, visit with his now-adult son, Freddy (Jack Cutmore-Scott) and give a guest lecture at Harvard. (Fans will recall that we first met the character Frasier on the show “Cheers,” when he was living and working in Boston. For the “Frasier” spinoff, he had returned to his hometown of Seattle.) Presumably, Frasier decides to stay in Boston, at least for a 10-episode span of his future.

Most reviews of this are positive, with The Los Angeles Times calling it “quite good.” The first two episodes of the new “Frasier” will air on CBS on Tuesday, but you aren’t likely to see more free eps there (at least not anytime super soon).

True Crime Story: Citizen Detective (10 p.m., Sundance TV, AMC+, Sundance Now)

This new series, a spinoff of “True Crime Story,” tells the stories of regular citizens who have solved or who are trying to solve a murder. There are six parts, and each part focuses on one of these citizens (or sometimes a group of citizens) working on a case that consumes them.

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