Great News For “Home Improvement” Fans

Great News for Home Improvement fans!  Tim Allen says there's potential for a "Home Improvement" spinoff.  It would take place in the future where his character is a grandfather.

The show originally aired for eight seasons on ABC, from 1991 to 1999.

It was one of the most popular sitcom of the 90's and it made Tim Allen a household name. His character was likable and relatable to the average American who either was a lot like him or knew somebody who was.

The show never finished the broadcast year ranked outside of the top 1o. That's incredible when you think of all of the great shows in the 90's. That was the decade of Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, Frasier, Coach, Murphy Brown, Law and Order, Roseanne, Everybody Loves Raymond and E.R.

Home Improvement ranked as high as number 2 twice in the 90's. With all of that stiff competition that's an amazing achievement.  It doesn't get the much deserved respect that all of those shows received and continue to this day. You can still see most of the other shows on cable in syndication. If you want to watch Home Improvement you can stream all the seasons on Hulu.

Quote, "One of the conversations we've had recently is how weird it would be if [the show] would be about the kids' kids.  Like if all of them had children, and I'm a grandparent.  'Home Re-Improvement' or something like that." Tim says he never felt like the story was done.  Quote, "It never felt right.  In the time off, [the cast] got real close where we talked to everybody."

It wouldn't be a stretch to see Tool Time Tim as a grandfather. He was born for the role, heck he has already played Santa Claus on several big screen movies.  Who is more grandfatherly than Santa?

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In case you have missed the news, the writers of our TV shows and movies our are on strike. This means that there are no new scripts being written until the writers can make a deal with the networks and production companies.

This happens every few years when the SAG/AFTRA union contracts run out. Writers are not happy with the compensation they’re receiving and are on strike until a better deal comes along. This has happened many times.

Things have certainly changed in Hollywood over the past decade or so. With the advent of streaming and the proliferation of outlets in need of creative work such as what writers provide. The demand has never been bigger but unfortunately according to the writers the compensation has never been worse.

These drugs usually happen in the summer and will carry on into the fall season when networks typically want to have their new shows on. So it remains to be seen if a deal can be worked out before September. In the meantime, maybe it’s time to look back at some of TVs greatest shows from the 80s and 90s that are certainly worth another rewatch. Of course as they say in TV if you’ve never seen it it’s not a rerun to you.

Of course everybody thinks their era would be the golden age of television so let’s focus on the 80s and 90s, you could argue that this was the best time for sitcoms. It was also a great time for TV dramas.

It would be nearly impossible to come up with a list of the so-called best but the mission here is to focus on nine shows that maybe you have seen or maybe you haven’t but either way definitely worth your eye’s time.