Beloved '90s SitcomHome ImprovementIs Coming to Netflix for the First Time

Mar. 15, 2025

‘Home Improvement’ stars Tim Allen, Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Patricia Richardson and Taran Noah Smith.Photo:ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

Tim “The Toolman” Taylor and the rest of theHome Improvementgang are headed for Netflix!

The show followed Allen’s Tim Taylor’s antics on both his home improvement showTool Timeand at home with his family, consisting of wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) and sons Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) and Mark (Taran Noah Smith).

Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson with Zachery Ty Bryan, Taran Noah Smith and Jonathan Taylor Thomas.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

During its original run on ABC from 1991 to 1999,Home Improvementwas a bona fide hit, earning multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and making major stars of its cast, including Allen, Thomas and Pamela Anderson.

In recent years, Allen, 71, hasfueled rumors of a reboot of the series, tellingEntertainment Tonightin 2018 that other cast members had told him that it “would be cool to do it years later, likeRoseanne.”

Allen even reprised hisHome Improvementroleon a 2021 episode of his showLast Man Standing,which Taylor and Richardson have both appeared on.

Last year, however, Richardson, 73, who scored four Emmy nominations for her role as Jill,shut down the idea of aHome Improvementrevival.

The cast of ‘Home Improvement’ in 1995.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

“It would be very weird,” she said of a reboot. “It makes me sad to think about it. I think — we did it. We did it well. We quit at the right time before it got really bad. And it should just stay as it is.”

Richardson also noted that neither Smith norThomas act anymore, while Bryan, 43, has been arrested repeatedly in recent years. In 2020, the former teen heartthrob was arrested forallegedly strangling his girlfriend, pleading guilty totwo domestic violence misdemeanor charges. He was arrested again in 2023 andcharged with fourth-degree felony assaultas well as third-degree robbery and misdemeanor harassment, again pleading guilty to felony assault in the fourth degree and serving a seven-day jail sentence.

He has been arrested twice in the past year on DUI charges, and on Jan. 1,Bryan was once again arrestedon charges of second-degree domestic violence.

Zachary Ty Bryan in 1995 and in 2025.ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Horry County Sheriff’s Office

ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Horry County Sheriff’s Office

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Meanwhile Anderson, who appeared in the first two seasons ofHome Improvementas Lisa “theTool Timegirl,” alleged in her 2023 memoirLove, PamelathatAllen flashed his penis at heron her first day on set.

“I walked out of my dressing room, and Tim was in the hallway in his robe,” Anderson wrote. “Heopened his robe and flashed me quickly — completely naked underneath. He said it was only fair, because he had seen me naked.”

Allen has denied the allegation, writing in a statement that “it never happened. I would never do such a thing.”

source: people.com