After oodles of controversy and ample speculation, the Roseanne-less Roseanne spin-off The Conners premiered on ABC last night, bringing with it an answer to just how the series would write off its one-time namesake. It was co-star John Goodman who first let it slip that the character would perish, but then Barr…
“I know Roseanne would want me to be here to look after the family.”
Note: This article contains spoilers for tonight’s season premiere of The Conners.
We’re two weeks out from the debut of The Conners, ABC’s Roseanne “spin-off” about what happens to a family when their mom dies of a terminal case of “The actress playing her said some racist stuff on Twitter.” Owing in part to a mixture of legal minefields and, presumably, some degree of personal attachment, the…
The Roseanne-less Roseanne spin-off The Conners is staying weirdly mum on plot details, but a new teaser posted to the show’s Twitter account offers a teensy peek into whatever ABC is cooking up. The good news? It’s heavy on the weary, neurotic Aunt Jackie, played here by the hilarious (and Oscar-nominated) Laurie…
During a recent interview on YouTube show Walk Away (via Entertainment Weekly), Roseanne Barr claimed that her Roseanne character is going to die off-screen from “an opioid overdose” on ABC’s rebooted revival show The Conners. Barr called the decision “cynical and horrible,” noting that she had decided to introduce a…
Earlier this month, we noted that ABC was working on The Conners—its Roseanne Barr-free revival of Roseanne—with “heavy security,” to the extent that everyone was using hand-delivered notes instead of email. We pointed out that this seemed bizarre, since the only justification for being so mysterious would be if ABC…
When ABC decided to reboot its Roseanne revival without its eponymous lead (who had been fired for being racist on Twitter), the path seemed pretty straightforward: Just do everything exactly the same as they would’ve had Roseanne Barr not been fired, but replace everything she would’ve said with someone else saying…
Although she’s now been semi-gracefully excised from the hit TV show that once bore her name, Roseanne Barr remains a frequent topic of conversation in the television world—including at this week’s TCA press tour. (After all, it’s not every day that someone goes from “having the most successful sitcom on the planet”…
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Here’s something we can file under “comebacks we didn’t ask for”: Just weeks after a racist tweet led ABC to dump her, Roseanne Barr claims she’s fielding a shit-ton of offers to make her way back to the small screen.
After a few weeks of trying to work out deals, ABC has finally ordered 10 episodes of a new Roseanne spin-off that won’t have Roseanne Barr in it. Tentatively titled The Conners, Deadline says the show will premiere in the fall and that it will take over the time slot previously held by the Roseanne reboot last…
Good news, fans of all the things about Roseanne that weren’t, well, Roseanne: ABC has moved ever so slightly closer to separating the racist-tweeting goose from the golden egg she laid, as THR reports that the network has apparently scored a tentative (and unofficial) agreement from Roseanne Barr to waive all future…
It continues to feel a bit like ABC somehow dodged a bullet—albeit, one it had, first, carefully aimed at its own big dumb head—with this whole Roseanne situation, as critics, fans, and even members of their own corporate family express their vague relief that the network was willing to cancel its most successful…
Ever since ABC found itself in the unenviable position of canceling the most-watched scripted series on network TV—admittedly, through its own willingness to let a Twitter-equipped scorpion go crawling around on its back, just waiting to poison the entire enterprise with one more-honest-than-usual tweet—there’s been a…
Among the many frustrations surrounding Roseanne Barr’s recent decision to be the person she already was, but louder—and, thus, cross the line that apparently allowed ABC to ignore her various past indiscretions in the interest of keeping the hit revival of her blue-collar sitcom on the air—is the fact that it’s put a…
The entertainment world is still reeling from the fact that Roseanne Barr is actually being punished for making a racist comment on Twitter, with ABC canceling the well-received Roseanne revival yesterday, but it seems like the topic must have come up on Fox & Friends this morning because the most famous TV-watcher in…
Yesterday, after ABC’s judicious cancellation of Roseanne, far-right conservatives took to Twitter to demand their own sacrifice in this seemingly never-ending culture war. In a classic case of Whataboutism, the MAGA chuds attempted to draw the public’s attention to another famous comedian who has also recently made a…
It’s one of those general maxims of online life that anybody who says they’re quitting social media probably isn’t, especially if they’re a high-profile person in the process of being yelled at by most of the rest of the internet. Even so, Roseanne Barr’s decision to “leave Twitter” this afternoon, after people got…
As Hollywood wrestles with today’s shocking, monocle-popping revelation that a right-leaning, Trump-supporting comedian might harbor some “secret” racist tendencies, the corporate tidal wave of companies moving to distance themselves from TV star Roseanne Barr continues to spread. Barr already had her recently revived…
