Patricia Heaton doesn’t see a future for a Roseanne-style revival for Everybody Loves Raymond.
“I don’t think it’s possible now with Peter (Boyle) and Doris (Roberts) gone,” Heaton, 60, told Us Weekly. “It just wouldn’t be the same show.”
Boyle and Roberts played Heaton’s in-laws, Frank and Marie Barone, on the hit show. Boyle passed away in 2006 and Roberts in 2016.In addition, Sawyer Sweetin, who starred as one of Heaton and Ray Romano’s twin sons on the series, died in 2015.
“It would be nice to do a special retrospective, so maybe the 25th anniversary, CBS will do something. That would be fun!”
Heaton, whose series The Middle recently ended, joked that she had no clue who Romano, 60, was when she kissed him for her Raymond audition.
“That’s how desperate I was for a job,” she cracked. “(I was like,) ‘I don’t know who that guy is in the corner, but if I have to kiss him, I’ll do it.’ I really didn’t know who it was.”
