Ray Romano Confirms Everybody Loves Raymond Won't Follow the TV Reboot Trend — and for a Very Good Reason

Unlike the beloved sitcom of our younker Malcolm successful the Middle, the iconic Everybody Loves Raymond volition not beryllium participating successful the reboot trend, according to the formed of the series.

"There won't beryllium a reboot," the show’s prima Ray Romano precocious told The New York Post portion attending a 30-year day solemnisation of the bid astatine the Paley Museum successful New York City. "The evident is Peter [Boyle] and Doris [Roberts], and 1 of the kids — they’re nary longer with us. We’re each heartbroken. They’re a large portion of the show, the dynamic.”

He added: “Without them, I don’t cognize what the dynamic is. We emotion the amusement excessively much, we respect it excessively overmuch to adjacent effort to bash it.”

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Romano attended the lawsuit alongside Maggie Wheeler (who appeared successful a guest-starring relation arsenic Linda Grunefelder), bid creator Phil Rosenthal, and costar Patricia Heaton, who played Ray’s woman Debra.

Heaton told the outlet: “To effort to bash it again without the formed members that we’ve mislaid would beryllium a disservice to the show. You shouldn’t effort to spell backmost and redo thing that is beauteous overmuch perfect. We request to conscionable permission it determination and fto radical bask it for what it was.”

Boyle, who played Ray’s begetter Frank, died successful 2006, portion Roberts, who played his parent Marie, died 10 years aboriginal successful 2016. Additionally, Sawyer Sweeten, who played Ray and Debra’s lad Geoffrey, passed distant 1 twelvemonth anterior successful 2015.

The amusement ran for a fantastic 9 seasons, from 1996 to 2005.

As for Malcolm successful the Middle, the bid is acceptable for a four-episode reboot with Disney+ starring astir each the archetypal formed — minus Erik Per Sullivan, who antecedently played Dewey but volition present beryllium attending Harvard for his Master’s degree. Though filming did wrapper connected the project, it has yet to denote a merchandise date.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.