Tom foolery aside, Home Improvement’s principal contribution to prime-time television is the genre it kept alive. Namely the Mom-Dad-and-the-kids family comedy, with all involved living under the same roof. Formerly the foundation of any self-respecting network’s schedule, they’re now considered outmoded and unlikely to attract a suitable segment of “impressionable” 18- to 49-year-old viewers. Begone, […]
Tim Allen hasn’t exactly been able to put eight years of “Home Improvement” behind him. Not yet. Allen has chosen to keep his mind off the subject the best way he knows how. Working. “Right now I’m pretty much in the ballgame,” he says from Utah, where he’s making a new movie. “It’s like a […]
‘Home Improvement,’ 8 p.m. Tuesday WXYZ-TV (Channel 7), ABC Tim Taylor in tears? If there’s no crying in baseball, there’s certainly no crying in “Tool Time.” Grunting or manly chortles, perhaps, but no sobbing allowed.Well, maybe just this once.For right here on Stage 4 of the Walt Disney Studios, where “Home Improvement” is about to […]
This Old House” has a lot to do with those new home improvement centers popping up across the nation.”It’s actually a fad and trend for people to fix their own homes,” said Lora Kellogg, director of advertising and public relations for Scotty’s. “When you look at TV, you have a whole channel dedicated to home […]