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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: 20 years after he signed off as Frazier on NBC,
- 0:05Speaker 2: Kelsey Grammer's returning to the network. This time it's for
- 0:08Speaker 2: a drama.
- 0:08Speaker 3: Yeah, a medical one specifically from the creator of Chicago
- 0:12Speaker 3: Med called Pops, where Kelsey will play an emergency medical
- 0:15Speaker 3: technician or EMT.
- 0:16Speaker 4: And Kelsey will play the lead role, a guy who
- 0:19Speaker 4: becomes a first responder in his 60s alongside co-workers half
- 0:23Speaker 4: his age, which is how he earns the nickname Pops.
- 0:26Speaker 2: And it's amazingly based on a true story about a
- 0:28Speaker 2: real guy from Maryland who did, in fact, become an
- 0:30Speaker 2: EMT at 64 and worked in the role until he
- 0:33Speaker 2: was 76. Pops is currently in development. And if all
- 0:36Speaker 2: goes well, should be back on NBC in the fall
- 0:38Speaker 2: of 2027. That's direct from Hollywood.