Why did FOX rescue Last Man Standing? Recently, FOX bosses Dana Walden and Gary Newman explained their decision to revive the cancelled ABC TV show, E! reports.
As reported earlier, FOX has picked up the Tim Allen sitcom for a seventh season. The series originally ran on ABC for six season before being cancelled last year. The cast also includes Nancy Travis, Molly Ephraim, Kaitlyn Dever, Amanda Fuller, Jordan Masterson, Flynn Morrison, Jonathan Adams, Christoph Sanders, and Hector Elizondo.
During a recent interview, FOX bosses Dana Walden and Gary Newman revealed why they revived Last Man Standing. Walden explained:
Obviously, everyone took a good hard look at the performance of Roseanne, it did so well. It certainly did remind us that we have a huge iconic comedy star in our Fox family in Tim Allen.”
Newman added:
We’ve been in business with Tim for five years, Tim’s personal politics really aren’t a big feature of the show, and I think that if you were to talk to Tim and our showrunners they would saw Mike Baxter is a centrist, he doesn’t have extreme political views. We just think it’s a really funny show that the audience responded to.”
Last Man Standing will join FOX’s 2018-2019 lineup this fall.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Last Man Standing? Will you watch it on FOX?
I love this show and I am not a Republican. It’s very funny!! I am estatic it’s back. People need to chill out.
Yay for Fox! Good move Last man standing is an awesome show!
Absolutely!!! I was thrilled that Last Man Standing was coming back! I can’t wait! The whole Dynamic of the show was wonderful!!! Thanks Fox
It was like Christmas all over again when I heard they were bring Last Man Standing back Thank for hearing us can’t wait for it to start.
Do the network execs really think the public are dumb enough to accept their lame excuses?
All they needed to do was to say “We got it wrong” because that’s the truth.
Roll on the next season.
Well actually fox produced the show for ABC. Once ABC tanked the show, Fox bought the rights. Good move
This is one of our favorite shows. We were so upset when it got canceled. I have always loved watching Tim Allen in any show he has been on. He is really funny. Thank you Fox for picking this up.
Thank you for bringing back ‘Last Man Standing’! Thank you! Loved this show and all of the cast are fantastic! We wish all of the cast great success and thank you Tim for believing in all of your Fans to keep asking for the shows return. Many of us wrote in a lot. Congratulations on the ‘Last Man Standing’ come back!
I’m so so happy the sitcom is coming back!!!! I just hope the original cast will be joining the 7 season
Glad to see it coming back. The cast was a fantastic mix that worked well. It also demonstrates that we can have differing opinions and still get along.
It’s great to have it back. The casting was perfect and reminds us we can have differing opinions and still get along.
I really enjoy the show. I’m glad FOX decided to continue as Tim Allen and cast really deliver a quality sitcom. Enjoyable watching for me!
I wish they didn’t
I LOVE THE SHOW EVEN IF I DON’T ALWAYS LIKE TIM’S POLITICS
Thank many thanks for bringing back last man standing
Thank you for reviving the show, last man standing. Kids can even watch this show without being shocked. Now we have to get rid of trash shows like Mom and Two Broke Girls.
2 Broke Girls was cancelled last year
And then after that, we should get rid of Last Man Standing again!