'Everybody Loves Raymond" star Brad Garrett says his dream of starring in a spin-off of the great CBS sitcom are pretty much dead. "CBS waited so long [to put it in motion] that we've lost most of the writers," Garrett told a Fox News reporter.

Garrett is now on Broadway co-starring in the revival of "The Odd Couple" with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. The lumbering comedy star can't seem to shake his typecasting ¡ª he plays Murray the Cop in the Neil Simon comedy.

When "Raymond" ended last spring, there was much talk of a new version of the series built around Garrett's brother Robert character, his new wife, Amy, and her religiously conservative family, the MacDougalls.

During a tearful farewell on this fall's Emmy Awards show, "Raymond" star Ray Romano even said he would be willing to come back for a guest appearance on the proposed spin-off.

But "we're in limbo now," says Garrett. "So it looks like it won't happen."