‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ returns
‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ returns! (Sort of)
Even though it’s been three decades since Ray Barone and his hilariously unhinged family first charmed us off the floral couch, the folks behind Everybody Loves Raymond still wouldn’t have done anything differently.
“I don’t think so,” said star Ray Romano, standing with show creator Phil Rosenthal at Austin’s Atx TV Festival this past weekend.
“People sometimes wonder why we ended it. I think we both felt the eighth season was it…”
“We stretched it and we really put our heads together to come up with enough episodes for Season 9 and we couldn’t,” echoed the perpetually amiable Rosenthal.
If you miss Phil Rosenthal’s sense of humor, you won’t have to wait too long to get it back.
The enormously successful creator and executive producer of CBS’ Everybody Loves Raymond is finally releasing Exporting Raymond, a documentary based on his experience with a Russian broadcaster that bought the sitcom’s format.
Apparently, it wasn’t all fun and games for Rosenthal (like when a Russian executive who could double as a hit man tells the uber-producer that his sitcom wasn’t funny).
The nerve! Didn’t Rosenthal show him his Emmy?
