Everybody Loves Raymond Cast to Reunite for Major Anniversary Special

Ray’s getting the set backmost unneurotic erstwhile again — and by the band, we mean the formed and unit of Everybody Loves Raymond, who are acceptable to reunite for a 30th day reunion peculiar successful November.

This is being called a 30th day engagement by CBS, but it’s really conscionable shy of the show’s milestone, arsenic it premiered successful September 1996. That doesn’t marque it immoderate little breathtaking that we tin expect a amusive 90-minute reunion peculiar hosted by Ray Romano and bid creator Phil Rosenthal.

Joining the brace volition of people beryllium stars Brad Garett, Patricia Heaton, Monica Horan, Sullivan Sweeten, and Madylin Sweeten, who volition unfastened up astir their experiences filming the astir decade-long series, which primitively wrapped up successful May 2005. Other formed and unit members — and adjacent immoderate peculiar guests — volition besides be and stock memories, arsenic good arsenic unseen footage and outtakes.

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Plus, the peculiar volition see a heartfelt tribute to actors Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, who played Ray’s parents Frank and Marie Barone. Boyle died aged 71 successful December 2006, conscionable a year-and-a-half aft the amusement ended, pursuing a conflict with bosom disease, portion Roberts died successful her slumber astatine property 90 successful April 2016 aft enduring a stroke.

Everybody Loves Raymond ran for a fantastic 9 seasons and ended up becoming a large deed and American sitcom mainstay pursuing the come-up of its archetypal season. The amusement went connected to triumph a whopping 15 Emmy awards during its storied run, including 2 accolades for champion drama series.

The upcoming reunion peculiar is presently acceptable to aerial November 24 connected CBS.

While Everybody Loves Raymond is getting a reunion special, don't clasp your enactment for a reboot. In June, Romano said that dissimilar the beloved sitcom of our younker Malcolm successful the Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond would not enactment successful the reboot trend.

"There won't beryllium a reboot," Romano told The New York Post portion attending a 30-year day solemnisation of the bid astatine the Paley Museum successful New York City. "The evident is Peter [Boyle] and Doris [Roberts], and 1 of the kids — they’re nary longer with us. We’re each heartbroken. They’re a large portion of the show, the dynamic.”

He added: “Without them, I don’t cognize what the dynamic is. We emotion the amusement excessively much, we respect it excessively overmuch to adjacent effort to bash it.”

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Lex Briscuso is movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.