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"New Girl star Max Greenfield has said that he wants Ray Romano to appear on the show. Greenfield told E! Online that he would love the Everybody Loves Raymond star to play the father of his character Schmidt. &amp;quot;I want Ray Romano to play my dad because he&amp;#039;s the best,&amp;quot; said the actor. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s my hero. He&amp;#039;s as good as it gets.&amp;quot; Romano recently starred on TNT comedy-drama Men of a Certain Age, which was axed in July. &amp;quot;He can do comedy and he can do drama,&amp;quot; suggested Greenfield. &amp;quot;I think he&amp;#039;s very real. I just like his style.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Everybody Loves Raymond was the best show ever [and] I loved Men of a Certain Age.&amp;quot; New Girl creator Liz Meriwether recently confirmed that she is keen to explore the family lives of the show&amp;#039;s characters. &amp;quot;I feel like there is so much comedy in who Jess&amp;#039;s (Zooey Deschanel) parents are and who Schmidt&amp;#039;s parents are and who Nick&amp;#039;s (Jake Johnson) are,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re definitely going to do that.&amp;quot; New Girl returns to Fox tonight at 9/8c, and will air on Channel 4 in the UK in 2012. &amp;gt; New Girl exec not planning Nick, Jess romance yet Watch a video preview of tonight&amp;#039;s New Girl below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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