Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton support their co-star of “Everybody Loves Raymond” Brad Garrett when it comes to refusing to restart the beloved sitcom CBS, which lasted nine seasons and 210 episodes between 1996 and 2005.
“No, there will be no restart,” Romano told the New York Post Point Blank while marking the SitCom’s 30th anniversary. “The obvious is Peter [Boyle] and Doris [Roberts] And one of the children – they are no longer with us. We all have a broken heart. They are a large part of the show, the dynamics. Without them, I do not know what the dynamics are. We love the show too much, we respect it too much to even try to do it. »»
Boyle and Roberts, who played the parents on the screen of Romano Frank and Marie, died respectively in 2006 and 2016. Sawyer Sweeten, who played one of the twin sons of Romano, died in 2015 at 19.
“Trying to start again without the actors we lost would be a bad service on the show,” added Heaton. “You shouldn’t try to go back and redo something that is roughly perfect. We just have to leave it there and let people enjoy it for what it was. ”
Heaton argued that Romano and “Everyone love Raymond”, Philip Rosenthal, had chosen to finish the series after nine seasons because “they felt like they really did all the stories”, adding: “They have a lot of integrity in this way.
Brad Garrett, a member of the distribution, told people earlier this month that a restart could never occur because “there is no show without the parents. They were the catalyst, and to do everything that would look like what would not be fair to the public or the faithful base of fans. And it was these two families, and you could not get around this. ”
