20 YEARS ON Everybody Loves Raymond

THE BARONES SAID FAREWELL IN 2005 - BUT FANS WON'T BE WITNESSING A REBOOT OF THE BELOVED SHOW

- Penelope Clifton

Romano told People he "forced" himself to watch the show. "Twenty years ago, I was quite critical of it... Being removed from it now, I appreciated it," he mused. "I was able to say, 'You know what, we did something pretty good!'" he concept was simple: a sportswriter, his stay-at-home wife and their three children live across the road from his overbearing parents. But the laughs this setup produced from 1996 to 2005 quickly cemented Everybody Loves Raymond as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. That's why fans have been longing for a reboot two decades on. But alas, Patricia Heaton who played Debra Barone opposite Ray Romano's Ray Barone for all nine seasons recently nipped talk of such a reprisal in the bud - and for a very heartbreaking reason. Since the show wrapped, the series has lost three of its stars.