Tim Allen Cut down for ABC's 'Last Guy Standing'

Tim Allen used to be the living breathing meaning of broad, commercial television.However in a period where 1990's TV symbols from Kelsey Grammer to Paul Reiser have happened, does the first kind Do It Yourself star have what must be done to chop through today's clutter?our editor recommendsABC to produce Tuesday Comedy Block with Tim Allen's 'Last Guy Standing'20th Century Fox TV Studio Executives Talk Tim Allen's Go back to TV, Seth MacFarlane's 'Flintstones' Reboot (Q&A)Related Subjects•TCA ABC, which his betting large on Allen's return-to-TV vehicleLastManStanding, is unquestionably wishing so. The network propped up by female audiences is searching to lure male -- and for your matter, more -- eyeballs by having an Allen sitcom in regards to a guy grasping for his maleness inside a group of four women. PHOTOS: ABC's Year Television Shows: 'Pan Am,' 'Charlie's Angels' and much more "It's yet to ascertain if this is exactly what America really wants to see again," Allen appreciates, calling it "courageous" to reboot a TV concept and star the way in which ABC does with Last Guy. Sitting before a roomful of reporters other family members . from the Television Experts Association summer time press tour Monday, he's realistic concerning the unlikelihood --or impossibility-- of tempting $ 30 million audiences the way in which Improvement once did."The landscape has transformed. I'd rather not say cheaper, however i just did," he deadpans to large laughs within the Beverly Hilton ballroom."You need to do better with less." PHOTOS: The Quotable TCA: TV Press Tour Eavesdropper Allen states he returned to ABC, that they calls a "tight slimmer ship" compared to exactly the same network from the the nineteen nineties, and told its professionals it needed to adjust its anticipation. Still, he's wanting to provide the small screen another shot, declaring he was attracted back by TV's structure and also the need to switch-flop the advance premise."It's not brain surgery which i'm doing here," he states, adding "rather than tools, it's sports, guns, ATVs and motorboats, and that i get home to four women." PHOTOS: Summer time TV Preview 2011: 'Teen Wolf,' 'The Glee Project' and much more Though he was contacted about doing other genres, including legal fare, Allen states he'd no interest. Though he claims he'd did something similar to Castle --a show, like Modern Family and also the Good Wife, that they likes-- he sees little curiosity about straying off in the sitcom form he's excelled at. "But they are all of you ready for this?" Allen asks publish-panel. "It's not yet been seen." Email: Lacey.Rose@THR.com Twitter: @LaceyVRose Related Subjects TCA Kelsey Grammer Paul Reiser Tim Allen Last Guy Standing TCA Summer time Press Tour 2011