Rising from the ashes of boozer favourite Cheers (they built the Frasier set on top of the demolished Cheers one), this was no cheap cash-in, but a stand-alone series that swiftly eclipsed the show that spawned it.
There were two big cheers: one for the 5% stamp duty on houses worth over £1m, and the loudest for the deal that will make it tougher for people to avoid paying tax by sheltering in … Belize.
Where were you?" The audience leans in and cheers one moment, before shooting back in their seats the next stunned to grim silence.
On second thought, we might want to scale that back to two cheers: one for boldness, and one for addressing America's sadly inadequate infrastructure funding.
"It's our 'Cheers,' " one regular said.
The cheers, one week after a disheartening loss to Washington State and several days after a controversy over what constituted a players-only meeting and whether one actually took place, seemed to be the crowd's way of telling U.S.C.
