Tim Allen’s newest sitcom arrives on television just ahead one of his most beloved shows from the past landing a new streaming home.
Per What’s On Netflix, Home Improvement is set to drop on Netflix in the United States on Feb. 1, 2025. Reportedly, this comes through a deal that will keep the beloved 90s sitcom on the streaming platform for 18 months. All eight seasons, spanning 204 episodes overall, will be included with the show’s Netflix arrival. This will also mark the first time Home Improvement has been made available to stream on Netflix, which could lead to bringing the classic comedy series some renewed popularity. The series was one of the most popular TV shows of its era when it aired between 1991 and 1998.
Home Improvement was created by Carmen Finestra, David McFadzean, and Matt Williams. It starred Tim Allen as Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, one of the co-hosts of a home improvement TV show called Tool Time alongside Richard Karn’s Al Borland. The show also followed the membbers of Tim’s family, including wife Jill (Patricia Richardson) and their three sons, Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), and Mark (Taran Noah Smith). Late actor Earl Hindman also starred as Wilson, a friendly neighbor whose face was always obscured by the fence.
Allen has hinted that a potential revival is possible in recent years, but Richardson later suggested that such a project happening is very unlikely. Thomas and Smith have since retired from acting, while Bryan has been having some continuous legal issues. With all three of the Taylor children potentially uninvolved, along with Hindman’s passing, Richardson feels that it wouldn’t be worth trying to revive Home Improvement in any kind of way.
“I would not want to [do a revival],” Richardson said in 2024, per TVLine. “I mean, Zach is now a felon… Taran hasn’t acted since he left the show… Jonathan is not really interested in acting… and we don’t have Wilson. So if we did it without [the late] Earl [Hindman], and also we have just two kids — probably, if that — it’s not going to be the [same] show at all.”
Another Tim Allen Sitcom Has Debuted on Television
On Jan. 8, the newest sitcom to feature Allen, who also starred in the hit show Last Man Standing, premiered on television. Co-starring Kat Dennings as his daughter, the series, called Shifting Gears, features Allen as a widower who runs an automobile restoration shop. The sitcom also stars Seann William Scott, Daryl Mitchell, Maxwell Simkins, and Barrett Margolis.
