{"id":94806,"date":"2025-08-19T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94806\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:18:07","slug":"home-improvement-reunion-set-for-shifting-gears-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94806\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Home Improvement’ Reunion Set For ‘Shifting Gears’ Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: A big Home Improvement<\/a> reunion is coming to ABC<\/a>\u2018s Shifting Gears<\/a> for Season 2. <\/p>\n

\n\tPatricia Richardson<\/a>, Richard Karn, and Debbe Dunning will guest star alongside their former co-star, Tim Allen<\/a>, who stars and executive produces Shifting Gears. The trio will appear in the Season 2 premiere, airing on Wednesday, October 1. Their characters will support Allen\u2019s character, Matt Parker, in an unexpected way. Details regarding who they will play are under wraps. <\/p>\n

\n\tGoing into its sophomore season, Shifting Gears follows Matt, the stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop. When Matt\u2019s estranged daughter Riley (Kat Dennings) and her kids move into his house, the real restoration begins.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Allen and Dennings, the sitcom also stars Seann William Scott as Gabriel, Daryl Chill Mitchell as Stitch, Maxwell Simkins as Carter, and Barrett Margolis as Georgia. Nancy Travis and Jenna Elfman will also return as guest stars this season.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPatricia Richardson and Tim Allen in ABC\u2019s \u2018Home Improvement\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMario Casilli\/TV Guide\/\u00a9Touchstone Television via Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tHome Improvement ran on ABC for eight seasons from 1991-99, with Allen leading the series as Tim \u201cThe Tool Man\u201d Taylor, later taking on EP duties during the show\u2019s final two seasons. Richardson played Tim\u2019s wife, Jill Taylor, and the mother of their three sons: Brad (Zachery Ty Bryan), Randy (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) and Mark (Taran Noah Smith). She also supported Allen by appearing twice as Helen Potts in a different ABC series, Last Man Standing. She is repped by Vanguard Management.<\/p>\n

\n\tKarn played Al Borland, Tim\u2019s friend and the co-host of his home improvement show, Tool Time. Both Richardson and Karn appeared in all eight seasons of Home Improvement. Like Richardson, Karn appeared twice on Last Man Standing, in the role of Bill McKendree. He and Allen also co-hosted two History Channel shows: the reality competition series Assembly Required and, later, More Power, where they discussed the history of tools. Karn is repped by Wright Entertainment, Inc., and Mavrick Agency.<\/p>\n

\n\tDunning portrayed Heidi, the show within a show\u2019s model, from seasons 3 to 8, following Pamela Anderson\u2019s time as Lisa. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Richard Karn, Debbe Dunning and Tim Allen in ABC\u2019s \u2018Home Improvement\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGene Trindl\/\u00a9Touchstone Television via Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tAllen executive produces Shifting Gears alongside Michelle Nader, Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, Richard Baker, Rick Messina, John Pasquin, Jim Patterson, Bob Daily, and John Amodeo. Dennings is a producer on the ABC series, which is produced by 20th Television<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: A big Home Improvement reunion is coming to ABC\u2018s Shifting Gears for Season 2. Patricia Richardson, Richard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[26764,1855,88,64239,64240,64241,64242,92,37570],"class_list":{"0":"post-94806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-20th-television","9":"tag-abc","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-home-improvement","12":"tag-patricia-richardson","13":"tag-shifting-gears","14":"tag-tim-allen","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-tv-castings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}