
Though it has been 23 years since “Residence Enchancment” went off the air, Tim Allen and Richard Karn nonetheless need to hang around collectively in a workshop prefer it’s 1999.
The basic sitcom stars — who performed Tim Taylor and Al Borland, hosts of the “Residence Enchancment” show-within-a-show “Software Time” — are reuniting for a brand new Historical past Channel collection referred to as “Extra Energy” that begins June 29.
Because the hosts, Allen, who spent lots of his early years in metro Detroit (and set his ABC hit comedy within the Motor Metropolis area), and Karn will have a look at the historical past and evolution of what is described as “the good, strongest, and iconic examples” of instruments.
They’re going to additionally characteristic real-life operators of machines used as instruments in on a regular basis life and invite toolmakers to change some acquainted objects in what guarantees to be “mind-blowing” methods.
The duo can be joined by woodworking YouTube star April Wilkerson, who additionally co-hosted their earlier Historical past Channel collection, the 2021 actuality competitors “Meeting Required.” It tasked contestants with making do-it-yourself contraptions.
The setting for “Extra Energy” can be Allen’s personal workshop. And if all of this has you doing Allen’s trademark grunt of enthusiasm, you’re the present’s goal demographic.
“Residence Enchancment,” which ran from 1991 to 1999, was lately chosen by a Free Press readers vote as the highest TV present set in Michigan.
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