Tim Allen Blames ‘Home Improvement’ Reboot Holdup on Onscreen Sons’ “Personality Problems”

That’s a little challenging right now, to put it mildly.” Home Improvement, which ran for eight seasons from 1991 to 1999, followed Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor (Allen), an accident-prone television host raising three mischievous boys — Brad (Bryan), Randy (Thomas) and Mark (Smith) — with his wife (Patricia Richardson), co-host (Richard Karn) and eccentric neighbor (Earl Hindman). Since the show concluded, Bryan has found himself in trouble with the law multiple times and is currently serving a 16-month sentence in California for a felony DUI conviction. That will be followed by a 19-month prison sentence in Oregon for probation violations related to a 2023 domestic violence conviction. He was also arrested in 2020 for allegedly strangling his then-girlfriend, Johnny Faye Cartwright. As for Smith and Thomas, Richardson previously said on the Back to the Best podcast that the former is “not an actor anymore” (Smith’s last credit was in 1999’s Batman Beyond) and the latter is “not really interested in acting. He wants to direct and write.” “It’s not going to be the show at all, and people think we can just magically go right back to who we were 30 years ago and do a show that was 30 years ago,” Richardson said of a potential reboot. “We’ve all changed quite a bit, I think, since then, and the show would just be very weird.” Live Feed Paramount+ Signs Matt Shakman to Direct Legal Thriller ‘Discretion’ Live Feed TV Ratings: NBA Finals Scores Largest Game 3 Audience Since the Michael Jordan Era Sports Where to Watch Knicks vs. Spurs in Game 4 of NBA Finals Live Online newsnation A NewsNation Correspondent Was in ‘Disclosure Day,’ and This Weekend, They Won’t Let You Forget It Live Feed ‘Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen’ Star Camila Morrone on Soulmates, Superstition and the Golden Age of Horror Acting