16. The part of Frasier was written for John Lithgow.
Lithgow was riding high at the time with two consecutive Oscar nominations but had no interest in working on TV.
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Lithgow recalled:
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“I just said, ‘No,’ I barely even remembered that … It was like swatting away a fly … I just wasn’t going to do a series.”
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