After sitcom success with Home Improvement and Last Man Standing, Tim Allen wasn’t exactly planning to return to network TV, that is until Shifting Gears pulled up. "It was a complicated decision. I was doing Disney+'s Santa Claus series at the time and I said,

Welcome Tim Allen back to the land of multicamera sitcom, for a third run in a form that has treated him well. "Home Improvement" ran for eight seasons on ABC and is arguably what allowed him to become a film star;