Sorry, “Home Improvement” fans. A reboot of the massively popular sitcom — which ran from 1991 for eight seasons and starred Tim Allen as a goofy, fun loving dad to three sons — is not coming out of the tool shed.Sources tell Variety there have been discussions over the years to get the Taylor family back together again. Patricia Richardson, who played the matriarch Jill Taylor, has indicated a willingness to return to the role. But there have been stumbling blocks to securing participation from the three Taylor boys: the eldest son Brad (Zachary Ty Bryan), middle son Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), and youngest son Mark (Taran Noah Smith).
“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 said in a recent interview. “They’ve got their own issues. 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.”
Bryan, who is now 44, is currently serving a 16-month sentence in a California jail stemming from a 2024 DUI arrest. Bryan has been arrested on multiple DUI and domestic violence charges in the past several years.
In addition, an Oregon judge recently sentenced Bryan to 19 months behind bars in that state due to violating his probation on a 2023 domestic violence conviction. He will serve that sentence following his release from jail in California. He is also due to be extradited to Oklahoma to face sentencing for a DUI arrest from 2024.
