United Kingdom, June 25 -- Ray Romano has insisted the Everybody Loves Raymond team are too "heartbroken" for a reboot.

The 67-year-old actor and his co-star Patricia Heaton - who played married couple Ray and Debra Barone on the classic sitcom which ran from 1996 to 2005 - insisted there is no way the show could be revived in a befitting manner.

Ray told the New York Post: "No, there won't be a reboot.

"The obvious is Peter [Boyle] and Doris [Roberts] and one of the kids - they're no longer with us.

"We're all heartbroken. They're a big part of the show, the dynamic."

Boyle - who played Ray's on-screen dad Frank Barone - died aged 71 in 2006 from multiple myeloma and heart disease, while the TV family's matriarch Roberts (Marie Baro...