The tv business’s reboot/remake/revival craze can’t contact All people Loves Raymond, in response to Brad Garrett, who performed Ray Romano’s onscreen brother on the hit CBS sitcom.
On the Los Angeles premiere of the Pixar movie Elio final week, Garrett instructed Individuals there “received’t be” a Raymond revival.
“And I’m simply saying that as a result of that’s one thing that Ray and Dan Clarendon, TV Insider Phil [Rosenthal] have at all times mentioned,” he added.
In accordance with Garrett, a reboot wouldn’t work with out forged members Peter Boyle, who died in 2006, and Doris Roberts, who died practically a decade later. The 2 actors performed Frank and Marie Barone — dad and mom of Raymond and Garrett’s Robert Barone — who lived with Robert throughout the road from Raymond and spouse Debra (Patricia Heaton).
“There isn’t a present with out the dad and mom,” Garrett mentioned. “They have been the catalyst, and to do something that might resemble that wouldn’t be proper to the audiences or to the loyal fanbase. And it was about these two households, and you’ll’t get round that.”
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All of that mentioned, Garrett instructed the journal he was “very grateful” for All people Loves Raymond, for which he received three Excellent Supporting Actor in a Comedy Sequence Emmys throughout 4 years. And he’s been revisiting the present by way of streaming, the place Raymond is at the moment accessible on Paramount+ and Peacock.
“They took on a brand new look to me,” he mentioned of the present’s 210 episodes, which initially aired on CBS between 1996 and 2005. “I used to be appreciating them extra. I used to be very exhausting on them again then … However, you see, whenever you’re faraway from it a bit of, I felt like an viewers member. After which I mentioned, ‘Let me charge them.’ I rated them, and I used to be exhausting on some.”
As Garrett talked about, each Rosenthal and Romano have expressed reluctance concerning the prospect of a Raymond reboot.
“We don’t even get two phrases out of that query out of our mouths earlier than we are saying no, as a result of we’re lacking key elements,” Rosenthal instructed the New York Every day Information in 2020. “There isn’t a present with out [Boyle and Roberts]. We may do one thing completely different, nevertheless it wouldn’t be All people Loves Raymond.”
Rosenthal additionally mentioned that CBS, viewers and even relations needed the present’s forged, crew and creatives to proceed previous 9 seasons. “However we knew we had run the course,” he defined. “And we additionally knew that we have been out of tales after 9 years. And we needed to cease earlier than we grew to become awful.”
As for Raymond himself, Romano instructed Yahoo! Leisure in December he wouldn’t wish to see the sitcom rebooted. “I’m just a bit protecting of All people Loves Raymond, simply because it was very private to me.”
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