Tim Allen Admits 'Personality Problems' With Fellow Co-Stars Stalled a 'Home Improvement' Revival

Home Improvement was one of the top TV sitcoms of the ’90s, alongside hits like Seinfeld and Friends. Leading star Tim Allenhas been open to a revival, but reveals that plans to get the project going have halted due to issues with the original cast.

The actor starred in the beloved sitcom with Taran Noah Smith, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and Zachery Ty Bryan, who portrayed his onscreen children. While Allen has gone on to fill slots in his career with Toy Story and his recent sitcom, Last Man Standing, his fellow co-stars are another story.

In an interview with US Weekly, the Home Improvement star admits that there have been talks for a revival, but his on-screen sons have proven to be an issue.

“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. “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.”

Allen has expressed a similar sentiment before about how the revival would take place. It’s only natural for the sitcom to continue with the lives of Allen’s onscreen children, having said in a 2023 interview that, “Like, if all of them had children, and I’m a grandparent. Home Re-Improvement or something like that. It’s come up.”

The revival proves tricky as Smith hasn’t acted in years since starring in the sitcom, and Thomas’s last known credit is in Allen’s Last Man Standing. To top it off, Bryans has faced legal issues since 2020 and made headlines in 2025 after being arrested for second-degree domestic violence. In 2026, Bryans pled guilty to a DUI in California and is serving his sentence.

Patricia Richardson, who played Allen’s on-screen wife Jill, also shot down the possibility of a revival. She admitted to not having been contacted about a possible project and that she has no desire to return to the sitcom for a few reasons.

“I mean, Zach is now a felon,” she said. “Taran hasn’t acted since he left the show; he’s not an actor anymore. And Jonathan’s not really interested in acting. He wants to direct and write. And we don’t have [Taylor neighbor] Wilson [the late Earl Hindman].”

Earl Hindman played the infamous neighbor Wilson in the sitcom, who died in 2003 at the age of 61 from lung cancer. Home Improvement was one of the biggest roles of many of the cast’s careers that aired in 1991 and ran for eight seasons until 1999.