Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton Reject ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Reboot and Call It a ‘Disservice’ After Co-Stars’ Deaths: ‘We Need to Just Leave It There’

Ray Romano and Patricia Heaton are backing their “Everybody Loves Raymond” co-star Brad Garrett when it comes to refusing to do a reboot of the beloved CBS sitcom, which ran for nine seasons and 210 episodes between 1996 and 2005.

“No, there won’t be a reboot,” Romano told the New York Post point blank while marking the sitcom’s 30th anniversary. “The obvious is Peter [Boyle] and Doris [Roberts] and one of the kids — they’re no longer with us. We’re all heartbroken. They’re a big part of the show, the dynamic. Without them, I don’t know what the dynamic is. We love the show too much, we respect it too much to even try to do it.”

Boyle and Roberts, who played Romano’s on-screen parents Frank and Marie, died in 2006 and 2016, respectively. Sawyer Sweeten, who played one of Romano’s twin sons, died in 2015 at 19 years old.

“To try to do it again without the cast members that we’ve lost would be a disservice to the show,” Heaton added. “You shouldn’t try to go back and redo something that is pretty much perfect. We need to just leave it there and let people enjoy it for what it was.”

Heaton argued that Romano and “Everybody Loves Raymond” creator Philip Rosenthal chose to end the series after nine seasons because “they felt like they’d really done all of the stories,” adding: “They have a lot of integrity in that way. The network would have wanted us to go for three more years, but they didn’t want to run the show into the ground.”

Cast member Brad Garrett told People earlier this month that a reboot could never happen because “there is no show without the parents. They were the catalyst, and to do anything that would resemble that wouldn’t be right to the audiences or the loyal fan base. And it was about those two families, and you can’t get around that.”