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…
Just hours after Roseanne Barr posted a racist “joke” about former Obama administration adviser Valerie Jarrett, ABC has canceled the well-received Roseanne revival. The announcement came in a very brief and very clear comment from ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey: “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is…
This morning Roseanne Barr tweeted what was, even by the low standards of her own Twitter account, a uniquely bad and tasteless joke. (Here it is: “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” meaning Obama administration advisor Valerie Jarrett.) She pretty quickly deleted the tweet, apologized for it as…
It takes everybody some time to ease back into normal life after a long weekend, but Roseanne Barr apparently decided to just jump right into the week by hopping on Twitter and dropping some racism about former Obama administration advisor Valerie Jarrett. In a since-deleted tweet, Barr said, “muslim brotherhood &…
The Roseanne revival, once just a segment on daytime TV, became a ratings-devouring reality earlier this year, bringing in 27 million viewers with its two-part premiere in late March. Those are Big Bang Theory numbers, which are increasingly difficult for network shows to hit, let alone one with such a controversial…
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, May 22. All times are Eastern.
One of the main creative voices behind ABC’s surprisingly successful Roseanne revival is stepping away from the series, with Variety reporting that comedian Whitney Cummings is leaving her co-showrunner role on the series. According to Cummings, she’s departing the show—which has already been revived for what’s…
