After nine ratings-tastic years as Everybody Loves Raymond's Debra, Patricia Heaton wanted to shake things up with her next, non-put-upon-housewife role. In TNT's The Engagement Ring (premiering tonight at 8 pm/ET), she plays Sara Anselmi, a vineyard owner whose own love life is thrown for a loop when a decades-old marriage proposal arrives in the mail for her mother (played by Lainie Kazan). Heaton shared a few minutes with TVGuide.com to discuss this return Engagement, life after Raymond and her new sitcom dreams.
TVGuide.com: What was your strategy in picking your first post-Raymond project?Patricia Heaton: We had The Engagement Ring in developme
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