Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton rule out ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ reboot

For (probably not) the last time, there will not be Everyone loves Raymond restart.

In the middle of a wave of restarts, renewals and remakes of classic television shows like Small house on the meadow,, ScrubsAnd X-FilesA sitcom is distinguished: Everyone loves Raymond. Stars Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton continue to wish the series will never come back for new episodes.

“No, there will be no restart,” said Romano New York Post unequivocal on the red carpet of a 30 -year celebration of the CBS series at the Paley Museum in New York.

For what?

“The obvious is: Peter [Boyle] and Doris [Roberts] And one of the children, they are no longer with us, “said Romano.” We all have a broken heart. They are a large part of the show, the dynamics. “”

Heaton concluded, saying: “Trying to start again without the distribution members that we lost would be a bad service on the show.”

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Created by Romano and Philip Rosenthal in 1996, Everyone loves Raymond Centered on the life of an Italian family living in Long Island and anchored by the Romano sports journalist, Ray Barone, and his wife Debra, played by Heaton.

The basic cast was completed by Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle, who played the parents of Ray Marie and Frank, Brad Garrett, who played his brother Robert, Monica Horan, who played the wife of Robert, Amy and Madilyn, Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten, who played the children of Ray, Geoffrey and Michael.

The show ended after nine seasons in 2005, and since then, Everyone loves Raymond Cast faced a certain number of devastating losses, putting a major kibosh on any enthusiasm, there could have been another overview of the life of the barone clan.

Roberts died in 2016 at the age of 90, Boyle died of a multiple myeloma and a heart disease in 2006 at 71 years old, and Sawyer Sweeten died by suicide in 2015 at 19.

“Without them, I don’t know what dynamics are. We love the show too much, we respect him too much to try to do so,” said Romano. Heaton added that: “You shouldn’t try to go back and redo something that is roughly perfect. We just have to let it there and let people enjoy it for what it was.”

Several members of Everyone loves Raymond The actors have made their lack of interest in a clearly clear restart in recent years. Romano said in December that he did not want to “restart in America” ​​- nodding to several international adaptations of the sitcom – because the series he built from zero “was very personal for me”.

Heaton previously quoted the death of Roberts, Boyle and Sweeten as three major reasons for not returning, but noted in February that the series “was just a kind of perfection – and you do not want to play with perfection”.

Rosenthal even declared in 2021 that the disinterest extends beyond the distribution, noting that the pitches with several networks for a special reunion led to “no takers”, which he noted, “I really can’t believe”.