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Ahead of Disney+'s The Santa Clauses revival, Tim Allen is revealing if he'd beryllium funny successful a antithetic reboot—this clip of his sitcom Home Improvement, which ran from 1991 to 1999.
Tim Allen Reveals What He'd Want From a Home Improvement Reboot
Tim Allen isn't ruling retired a Home Improvement fixer-upper.
Speaking with E! News exclusively up of The Santa Clauses premiere Nov. 16, Allen revealed we whitethorn not person seen the past of his beloved '90s sitcom Home Improvement—though helium believes Tim Taylor's storyline may be over.
"The unit and formed of that show—we've ever said that," Allen said of a imaginable revival. "We wanted to bash it arsenic a abbreviated movie for charity, I believe, and it was a substance of scheduling."
But Allen noted that, successful a way, Tim Taylor has already continued connected television—in Last Man Standing's Mike Baxter. Allen's follow-up sitcom ran astir 10 years, from 2011 to 2021, and followed Baxter arsenic helium runs his Outdoor Man vlog astir sporting goods—and thing other that came to his mind.
"Tim Taylor, helium benignant of graduated successful the TV satellite into Mike Baxter," helium explained. "He's benignant of a gag, and I deliberation we did it on Last Man Standing—we showed the 2 unneurotic successful a imagination sequence. Tim Taylor benignant of grew into Mike Baxter, arsenic an histrion and arsenic a man."
And portion Allen added that he doesn't cognize however "relevant" his Home Improvement character remains, helium thinks a reboot focusing on his sons, Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), and Mark (Taran Noah Smith), could work.
"What I'd emotion to spot is those boys grown up—what they're doing grown up," helium explained. "I deliberation that'd beryllium an astonishing portion of television."
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This isn't the archetypal time Home Improvement reboot rumors person made headlines. In 2018, Allen exclusively told E! News that the bid was adjacent to coming back—until Last Man Standing began airing.
"I ne'er felt—and it's travel true—that this was done," Allen said astatine the time. "It ne'er felt right. In the clip off, we got existent adjacent wherever we talked to everybody."
The Santa Clauses premieres connected Disney+ Nov. 16.
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