"Cheers" surviving the departure of Shelley Long by replacing her with Kirstie Alley was a rarity in TV history

Three's Company tried that when Suzanne Sommers left and Priscilla Barnes took over but the ratings suffered a slow decline and the show got cancelled after three seasons.

I think what helped was that the show became more of an ensemble whereas before Cheers was the Jack and Diane show. The first two seasons with Kirstie was clearly them trying to have Sam and Rebecca be the focus with Sam constantly trying to woo her but then they quit that and it became a ensemble with everybody getting to shine.

For me, I thought Alley was funnier than Shelley Long but Long was a better actress.

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Actress Kirstie Alley, w/the same 40 years of experience as Alec Baldwin, says she has been handed 100 guns & they have always been shown to her open by the armorer so she can see it's empty. This echos what seasoned armorers & propmasters have said. Why didn't Alec Baldwin insist on this protocol? dailywire.com/news/kirsti…
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My 12 year old daughters interpretation of Saavik.( the Kirstie Alley version.)
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I finally noticed that Kirstie Alley waves Doug into the room in this scene - so I now understand why Carrie gives chase πŸ˜‚ v.redd.it/thd8i6u4c6j71
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Conan used to make fun of Kirstie Alley, pretty ruthlessly, all the time for her weight. Always seemed out of character for him. She had to have wronged him in some way. Anyone know if there’s more to the story?

This was all before people started to get called out for β€œfat shaming” and fat jokes were fairly common. However, something always seemed a little more personal for him with Kirstie Alley jokes. I have created several scenarios in my head and I have decided to believe that she was extremely rude to him or SNL staff when she hosted in 1991 - before Late Night.

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Kirstie Alley was much better than Shelley Long in "Cheers"

I feel Long was too shrill and whiny and the whole "I'm too snooty to work in a bar" got old pretty quickly. I was tired of how much Long was a fish out of water and I didn't think she and Ted Danson had this great chemistry.

I thought Alley was funnier, she made her character into a total loser but unaware of it and I liked that she was at times unlikable. It was more entertaining to see Rebecca fail at everything than Diane complaining about how she's too good to work in a bar and her love-hate relationship with Danson.

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Kirstie Alley was feeling bold on Twitter today. If only she had someone close to her to tell her what a fool she is making of herself. Ft my reply
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