Tim Allen’s former sitcom spouse is looking BS on the alleged House Enchancment revival.Even earlier than Fox pulled the plug on Final Man Standing in 2021, Allen spoke to TVLine about his want to revive “The Software Man” and verify in with Tim Taylor’s household. “I simply assume it’s a wonderful thought,” he stated on the time, including: “All of the actors assume it’s an ideal thought.”Extra from TVLineBut in a brand new podcast interview, Patricia Richardson — who for eight seasons performed Tim Taylor’s better-half Jill — plainly states that she has no want to reprise her Emmy-nominated position. What’s extra, she accuses Allen of flat-out “mendacity to individuals” a couple of potential revival.“No,” Richardson solutions when requested on the Again to the Finest podcast if she’d be excited about a comeback. “In truth, I feel [that’s] the rationale that Tim is now happening to do one other present” — the ABC sitcom pilot Shifting Gears — “which is similar plot as Jungle Cruise and most of the films that he’s performed the place he’s misplaced his child, and he has to get his child again. Yada, yada…. However I observed this time, he doesn’t have a spouse. He’s divorced.” (Editor’s Observe: We imagine Richardson is referring to the 1997 cinematic masterpiece Jungle 2 Jungle.)“I might hear on Twitter (or no matter) that he was popping out publicly and saying these things about how everybody was on board to do a House Enchancment reunion,” she remembers. “However he by no means requested me, and he by no means requested Jonathan [Taylor Thomas, who played middle child Randy]. I known as Jonathan someday and I stated, ‘Has he requested you about this?’ And he went, ‘No. Why is he going round telling everybody that we’re on board when he hasn’t talked to you or me?’ I feel that’s bizarre. He was mendacity to individuals and telling them that I used to be on board and I didn’t know something about it.“I might not wish to,” Richardson reiterates. “I imply, Zach [Ty Bryan, who played oldest son Brad] is now a felon… Taran [Noah Smith, who played youngest son Mark] hasn’t acted since he left the present… Jonathan will not be actually excited about appearing… and we don’t have Wilson. So if we did it with out [the late] Earl [Hindman], and in addition now we have simply two youngsters — in all probability, if that — it’s not going to be the [same] present in any respect.” (TVLine has reached out to Allen’s rep for remark.)House Enchancment ReunionHome Enchancment Reunion PhotosView Gallery6 ImagesHome Enchancment ran for eight seasons (and a complete of 204 episodes) on ABC, from September 1991 to Might 1999. Throughout its run, it was nominated for seven Primetime Emmy Awards, together with a nod for Excellent Lead Actor (for Allen), 4 nods for Excellent Lead Actress (for Richardson) and two nods for Excellent Comedy Sequence.When TVLine beforehand requested Allen about probably reviving House Enchancment as soon as Final Man Standing got here to an finish, he answered: “I all the time give it some thought, as a result of I nonetheless speak to everyone concerned. The query I’ve is, ‘Is it nonetheless related? Is Tim Taylor related within the Mike Baxter world?’ As a result of Mike Baxter is sort of a actual model of Tim Taylor; he’s not such a joke. And the [Outdoor Man] vlogs are like Mike’s model of Software Time performed as an online collection.”As for a way he’d wish to see House Enchancment return? “I like the thought of doing it as a one-off, like a one-hour film [versus a full-fledged revival series],” Allen stated. “I like the thought of discovering out the place the boys are actually, and the place… Software Time can be in right this moment’s world.”Allen beforehand reunited with Richardson, Thomas and Richard Karn on his second sitcom, Final Man Standing, which wrapped its nine-season run in 2021. That was adopted by Disney+’s The Santa Clauses (which continues to be awaiting phrase on Season 3) and the ABC pilot Shifting Gears, which is being eyed for the 2024-25 TV season.Watch Richardson give her full reply a couple of hypothetical House Enchancment revival under, then hit the feedback together with your reactions.Better of TVLineGet extra from TVLine.com: Observe us on Twitter, Fb, E-newsletter