![]() I want to make sure that he wanted to play it - which he did, he fully embraced the idea, with the proviso that we would honor that character, not make fun of him or anything, which we would never do,” Abbott said. “So the first hurdle you have to jump is to get Tim to sign off on it. ![]() So we all got very excited about it,” he said, adding, that he “felt good that we’d be able to land the actor.”Īnd, of course, they did, but Allen was very particular about how he wanted his beloved “Home Improvement” character to appear on “Last Man Standing.”Īlso Read: TV Winners and Losers of 2020: From 'Schitt's Creek' to 'Live PD' (And We Didn't Forget Ellen) “It seems so obvious, so great and yet we didn’t think of it before. That is brilliant.'”Ībbott calls the idea one of those ones “where it’s like, how did we not think of this before?” And Jon Haller came back and said he’d been thinking about stunt casting and said, ‘You know, we’ve had almost all the names from “Home Improvement” on the show and the one we really haven’t had is Tim Taylor.’ And I went, ‘That is just brilliant. “Plus, it’s difficult to come up with some huge promotable event that happens in our little world.”Īlso Read: Here Are the Premiere Dates for Broadcast TV's New and Returning Winter Shows (Updating)Ībbott continued, “And so as I was bitching and moaning about it, my writers were actually thinking about it. And Fox came to us and said, ‘We’d love it if you could come up with some big promotable event.’ And I always hate that, especially on this show, where we tell smaller stories about family interaction,” “Last Man Standing” showrunner Kevin Abbott told TheWrap. “We had already broken the first seven episodes and our intention was to have the ‘Time Flies’ be the first episode. 7 on Fox, came about because the broadcast network wanted to kick off the sitcom’s final season with something flashy. And the idea for this epic half-hour, which airs Jan. The bit will come in the second episode of “Last Man Standing’s” upcoming ninth season, when Vanessa hires a home improvement repairman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Mike, who is struggling with an idea for his Outdoor Man 10th Anniversary vlog. ![]() ![]() Fox’s “Last Man Standing” is going big in its final season, with an episode featuring Tim Allen in his leading role of Mike Baxter and reprising Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, the iconic character he played on ABC’s “Home Improvement” for eight seasons from 1991-1999. ![]()
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