Here's some insider baseball for y'all. For all the "official," clear-to-use photos of Tim Allen, it's hard to find a good one where he's alone and not with the cast of Home Improvement. If you'll notice, just behind Tim Allen in the picture for this article? His Home Improvement co-stars!
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Because that's Tim Allen! He's Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor first and maybe Buzz Lightyear second (if you even remember he voiced the Space Ranger in Toy Story). I'll go a step further and admit that for a second before writing this article, I legitimately had to remember Tim Allen's name wasn't "Tim Taylor."
That's no shade to Allen whatsoever. Home Improvement was hard for any of its actors to move away from. That simultaneously speaks to the show's enduring legacy and the woeful price of being too good in a single role. Like Adam West when he played Batman. The only person (that immediately comes to mind) to successfully break out of the "Typecast" box is Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad when he was more than just "the funny dad in Malcolm in the Middle."
Anyway, Tim Allen's actively shooting what I assume is Shifting Gears, though he doesn't clarify in the X (formerly Twitter) post talking about it.
Here I go again. Shooting my new ABC pilot. Great cast, great crew. We shoot Friday in front of live audience. More to come. pic.twitter.com/ncpA3x6lXW
