Actor Tim Allen just gave an update on the highly anticipated reboot of “Home Improvement,” saying “personality problems” with one of the actors are at least partially to blame for it never getting off the ground.
“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 Wednesday.
This comment likely referred to Zachery Ty Bryan being arrested in November 2025 over a domestic violence violation after previously being arrested for suspicion of DUI, felony assault, and robbery, as the outlet noted. He was also arrested on suspicion of strangling his then-girlfriend in 2020. Bryan starred as one of Allen’s sons in the series, which began when he was 9 years old.
Another blow to any hope of a reboot is that, in 2024, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played another son on the show, is no longer “interested in acting,” according to his former co-star Patricia Richardson.
“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,” the actor added.
The massive hit “Home Improvement” ran for eight seasons from 1991 to 1999. Allen starred as Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, and the series followed him as he navigated life with his wife and three sons. Allen, who has a real-life love of cars, previously starred in the popular, Trump-friendly sitcom “Last Man Standing” for many years before it was shockingly canceled in 2017.
He is also part of a new sitcom, “Shifting Gears,” which debuted last year. He is well known for voicing Buzz Lightyear in the “Toy Story” franchise. The fifth installment of the popular animated film is due out later this month.
Allen has had a successful Hollywood career by any measure, but his fans say he’s been discriminated against for holding openly conservative views.
The 72-year-old told Bill Maher earlier this year that DEI policies should not come at the expense of the show’s quality.
“My wife says, ‘Why do you keep saying that?’ And I said, ‘Somebody told me I was like the Tom Brady of sitcoms.’ When they asked me to do a third [show], I said, ‘I thought they were kidding,’” the comedian told Maher, as The Daily Wire previously reported.
“I don’t know whether my generation … because all the people that I know that I would make it with are either dead or not the right gender, you know, they’re all light-skinned European older men. And that doesn’t fit the DEI thing that everybody wanted.”
“I didn’t want to get into that. I didn’t want to patronize people. If you’re going to do a sitcom, it’s just got to be funny. You got to have some drama,” Allen said.