Fans will have to wait for a new edition of Tool Time.
After all, Tim Allen revealed that any possible revival of his ‘90s sitcom Home Improvement—on which he starred alongside Patricia Richardson, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Taran Noah Smith, Zachery Ty Bryan and Richard Karn—is paused indefinitely.
“They keep talking about how it could move forward, but they get stuck [because] there are some personality problems right now with the boys,” Allen told Us Weekly in an interview published June 10. “They’ve got their own issues.”
And that throws an extra wrench into the mix, considering his vision for the continuation. The 72-year-old added, “I always thought it would be cool if it was a story about them. That’s a little challenging right now, to put it mildly.”
In the years since Home Improvement premiered in 1991, Allen’s three onscreen sons (who were aged between 7 and 10 when season one aired) have had varying relationships with the spotlight.
Thomas, who played middle child Randy Taylor, quickly rose to teen heartthrob status in the 1990s, though he largely retired from acting following a handful of appearances in the early aughts. (Though he did reunite with his onscreen dad in a few episodes on Allen’s sitcom Last Man Standing.)
Smith had a similar trajectory after playing youngest son Mark Taylor, working on a few projects in the 1990s before pivoting to a life outside of Hollywood.
Bryan, however, has had a more fraught path since his time as oldest Taylor son Brad. While the now 44-year-old worked steadily in the years during and following Home Improvement, he has faced a number of arrests since 2020 and is currently serving a 16-month prison sentence in California related to DUI charges from a February 2024 arrest.
He was given a separate prison sentence of 19 months in Oregon in March after admitting to three probation violations related to a 2023 domestic violence conviction.
But even if Bryan’s legal challenges were not an issue, Allen’s former onscreen wife Richardson previously detailed her own reasons for why a revival is unlikely to get off its feet.
“Taran [Noah Smith] hasn’t acted since he left the show, he’s not an actor anymore,” she said in a March 2024 episode of the Back to Best podcast. “Jonathan’s not really interested in acting, he wants to direct and write.”
Plus, heartbreakingly she noted that Earl Hindman—who played the Taylors’ neighbor Wilson on the series—died in 2003 after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
“So, if they did it without Earl and also just two kids, probably, if that, it’s not gonna be the show at all,” Richardson continued. “People think we can just magically go back to who we were 30 years ago and do a show that was 30 years ago. And we’ve all changed quite a bit, I think, since then.”
So, with two of the Taylor brothers currently living lives away from Hollywood, the third navigating ongoing legal troubles and an actress reticent to step back into her role, revisiting Home Improvement is indeed proving to be, as Allen put it, a “little challenging.”
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