‘Everybody Loves Raymond’: Why there won’t be a series reboot

Patricia Heaton, who played Debra on the sitcom, has revealed why it’s unlikely there’ll ever be a series reboot.

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.

Doris Roberts and Peter Boyle.

Sullivan Sweeten and Sawyer Sweeten in 2005.

Despite the apparent impossibility of a reboot, Heaton has an idea in mind for the cast to get back together in a different way.

“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.”

The cast of Everybody Loves Raymond at the taping of the final episode in 2005.

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