‘Everybody Loves Raymond’: The Shocking Reason Why a Robert Spinoff Never Happened

Everybody Loves Raymond fans have been basking in the show’s recent reunion, celebrating its 30th anniversary, but did you know that the comedy almost had a spinoff?

In a recent interview for Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Phil Rosenthal got candid about the shocking reason a spinoff never happened. According to the sitcom creator, “I tried to make another sitcom after Raymond,” Rosenthal said, as he added, “They didn’t want it. I thought that was my purpose in life. Raymond was on nine years. I thought, ‘I guess I was put here to make sitcoms.'”