Roseanne cancelled

Deleted User wrote: »

Just how unbefúckinlievably obtuse must one be to compare an African-American to a character in Planet of the Apes?

Stunning.

Barr's a serial offender. You may remember Susan Rice was also an African-American woman in the Obama administration. From 2013:

AllForIt wrote: »

What a pity. One of my all time favourite comedy shows. Mind you the first few episodes of the first new series weren't great but maybe it would have got going later but we'll never know now. Whatever about he wacky opinions it was utterly stupid of her to voice them when she was getting hers and others careers back on track. She's lost a lot of fans and respect over this, permanently.

There's no way they could have continued the show in any event. Even if ABC hadn't cancelled it, how many of the cast would have returned for Season 2? Galecki? Gilbert? Goodman? Good luck with writing the script to explain all the absences.

More broadly, ABC is owned by Disney, and even if Roseanne itself held onto every cast and production member, the related ABC and Disney talent might not want to be associated with a network/corporation that's swallows principles to keep profits.

In the short term, ABC will take a hit. in the longer term, their brand will have shown itself to be on the right side of history. But what I would point out is that Barr was well-known to be a rabid conspiracy theorist (she claimed Chelsea Clinton was married to a nephew of George Soros) and had made plenty of unsavoury tweets.

ABC knew this and still commissioned the Roseanne re-boot. I'm guessing that they thought millions of dollars a year would keep Barr on the straight and narrow. Apparently not.