Roseanne Revival Ratings Are Dropping; Hit New Low Update: CANCELLED! and BACK AGAIN
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but I STILL don't think they want to be known as the CMT: Home of racist TV and show re runs of the Middle and Last Man Standing hold on...
you know what?
They really could apparently...
https://www.bgol.us/forum/threads/3...blicly-supported-trump-any-surprises.1003549/
Heard of the show but never watched it. What racist shit happened on it?
Somebody did make a good point on this tweet.... Roseanne did make a similar statement about Susan Rice in 2013..
The only Cast member that I'm pissed got sunk into this is John Goodman... It feels like I've been a John Goodman fan since the beginning of time.. Back when he dropped King Ralph. He was my John Candy substitute.
I'm going to need my man to get another gig. If I was ABC.... I would start developing another show for John.
Joss Whedon gets it..
To be on the real... ROSEANNE the show... would still work without ROSEANNE... you could just use the other characters.
Lol
ABC might un-cancel his show now 
There was value in her show though. The idea to reboot it was a business decision. Assessing the risk, I would've done it too. How much damage could this old lady have possibly created?
Well now we know. I'm hoping Miss Dungey learned something today.
i meant her costars and ppl in hollywood...not the business. the business end will always chase paper
these ppl are acting all shocked, quitting and distancing themselves on twitter but to me she seems to be pretty consistent
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Somebody did make a good point on this tweet.... Roseanne did make a similar statement about Susan Rice in 2013..
The only Cast member that I'm pissed got sunk into this is John Goodman... It feels like I've been a John Goodman fan since the beginning of time.. Back when he dropped King Ralph. He was my John Candy substitute.
I'm going to need my man to get another gig. If I was ABC.... I would start developing another show for John.
Joss Whedon gets it..
To be on the real... ROSEANNE the show... would still work without ROSEANNE... you could just use the other characters.
@largebillsonlyplease made the same point
I just dont see it.
You kill her off ok fine
the family is TRUMATIZED
how you gonna WRITE that in a 30 min sit com?
(yes I know they already killed Dan)
but maintain the funny?
what are the future story lines?
Is that EXISTING cast STRONG enough to pull that off?
You can hate her but she was the CENTER of that how...
You can't Just take off Frasier, Seinfeld, Cliff, Ralph Krandon, Lucy, and Archie Bunker and expect the show to keep going....
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The ‘Roseanne’ Reboot Is Funny. I’m Not Going to Keep Watching.
By Roxane Gay
Roseanne Barr and John Goodman in the revival of “Roseanne,” which had its premiere on Tuesday.CreditAdam Rose/ABC
It can be very difficult to separate the art from the artist. In the case of Roseanne Barr and her critically acclaimed television show based on her life, it is nearly impossible. I wasn’t going to watch the reboot because I find Ms. Barr noxious, transphobic, racist and small-minded. Whatever charm and intelligence she brought to the first nine seasons of her show, a show I very much loved, are absolutely absent in her current persona, particularly as it manifests on Twitter. She is a supporter of Donald Trump, vocalizing her thoughts about making America great, claiming that with her vote, she was trying to shake things up. She tweets conspiracy theories, rails against feminism and shares Islamophobic opinions.
Where once she was edgy and provocative, she is now absurd and offensive. Her views are muddled and incoherent. She is more invested in banal and shallow provocation than engaging with sociopolitical issues in a thoughtful manner. No amount of mental gymnastics can make what Roseanne Barr has said and done in recent years palatable.
Nonetheless, I was curious about what Roseanne Conner, her famous television alter ego, has been up to. The original “Roseanne” was a smart, hilarious and groundbreaking show that covered a lot of important ground in prime-time television. I wanted to see how the Conners were doing 20 years later.
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18 million people watched, a network TV high since 2014 — are the same tensions that shape this current political climate. Roseanne the character voted for Donald Trump because he talked about “jobs.” For that she sacrificed so many other things. The promise of jobs and the myth of the white working class as the only people struggling in this country, which animates so much of our present political moment, are right there, in this sitcom.
In many ways, the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot are excellent. It is difficult to admit, but nearly everything about the production is competent. There is the familiarity of the Conner house, still well-worn, the iconic couch taking center stage in the family room. The original cast returned and their faces are pleasantly familiar — though not as aged as they could be, given the benefits of wealth, good skin-care regimens and, perhaps, medical intervention.
Darlene, the middle daughter, has moved back home with her two children, Harris and Mark, the latter of whom is gender nonconforming. D.J., the Conner son, was in the Army and has recently returned home from a tour in Syria. His wife, we learn indirectly, is still in the military, serving abroad, and D.J. is raising their daughter, who is black, while she is away. Roseanne and her sister, Jackie, played by Laurie Metcalf, have been estranged for a year because of the 2016 election, and when Jackie shows up, she’s wearing a “Nasty Woman” T-shirt and a pink pussy hat. Of course she is.
The Conners are still dealing with many of the economic struggles they have always faced. Darlene has lost her job. Roseanne and Dan are getting older and, like many Americans, cannot afford adequate health care as they try to share various medications. Becky, the oldest Conner child, is going to become a surrogate and sell her eggs to make $50,000. Darlene’s son, Mark, is being bullied at school for his gender presentation. The show isn’t shying away from difficult topics, and that is both what works and doesn’t. The Conners are portrayed as a typical working-class family and their problems are relatable, but it also feels as though the show is working through a checklist of “real issues” it wants to address, to demonstrate how the Conners are a modern American family.
The presence of D.J.’s daughter, Mary, is particularly awkward. When she appears, one of these things is clearly not like the other, but the show makes no mention of it as if to suggest how at ease the Conners are with difference. But Mary has no lines and very little camera time. We are given little information as to how she became part of the Conner family and what life for her is like in a small, predominantly white Illinois town where everyone, seemingly, voted for Donald Trump. Young Mary is just there, a place holder, tokenized and straining the limits of credulity.
When a lot of the mainstream media talks about the working class, there is a tendency to romanticize, to idealize them as the most authentic Americans. They are “real” and their problems are “real” problems, as if everyone else is dealing with artificial obstacles. We see this in some of the breathless media coverage of Trump voters and in a lot of the online chatter about the “Roseanne” reboot. What often goes unsaid is that when the working class is defined in our cultural imagination, we are talking about white people, even though the real American working class is made up of people from many races and ethnicities.
During a Television Critics Association panel promoting the show, Ms. Barr said, “it was working-class people who elected Trump.”
This myth persists, but it is only a myth. Forty-one percent of voters earning less than $50,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 53 percent voted for Hillary Clinton. Forty-nine percent of voters earning between $50,000 and $100,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 47 percent voted for Mrs. Clinton. The median income of these voters was $72,000, while the median income of Hillary Clinton voters was $61,000. A significant number of middle-class and wealthy white people contributed to Trump’s election.
In the show, during an exchange about their political disagreement, Roseanne tells Jackie one of the reasons she voted for Mr. Trump is because he “talked about jobs.” And that was all the political ideology we got. If we are to believe the circumstances of this character’s life, a few vague words about “jobs” was more than enough to compel Roseanne, with inadequate health care, with vulnerable grandchildren, and struggling to make ends meet, to vote for Mr. Trump.
How do you reach people who make dangerous political choices grounded in self-interest? When Roseanne and Jackie finally reconcile, Roseanne never apologizes or concedes. She merely tells Jackie, “I forgive you,” and Jackie acknowledges how hard that was for Roseanne. Clearly, we cannot reach people who make dangerous, myopic political choices. We concede, as Jackie does, or we resist, as hopefully the rest of us will.
In my book “Bad Feminist,” published in 2014, I wrote about giving myself permission to be flawed but feminist. I wrote about how sometimes I consume problematic pop culture, knowing I shouldn’t, knowing how harmful that pop culture can be. I still believe there is room for that, for having principles and enjoying things that challenge those principles. But in the ensuing years, I’ve also been thinking about accountability and the repercussions of our choices. I’ve been thinking about how nothing will change if we keep consuming problematic pop culture without demanding anything better.
As I watched the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot, I thought again about accountability. I laughed, yes, and enjoyed seeing the Conner family back on my screen. My first reaction was that the show was excellent. But I could not set aside what I know of Roseanne Barr and how toxic and dangerous her current public persona is. I could not overlook how the Conner family came together to support Mark as he was bullied at school for his gender presentation, after voting for a president who actively works against the transgender community. They voted for a president who doesn’t think the black life of their granddaughter matters. They act as if love can protect the most vulnerable members of their family from the repercussions of their political choices. It cannot.
By Roxane Gay
- March 29, 2018
Roseanne Barr and John Goodman in the revival of “Roseanne,” which had its premiere on Tuesday.CreditAdam Rose/ABC
It can be very difficult to separate the art from the artist. In the case of Roseanne Barr and her critically acclaimed television show based on her life, it is nearly impossible. I wasn’t going to watch the reboot because I find Ms. Barr noxious, transphobic, racist and small-minded. Whatever charm and intelligence she brought to the first nine seasons of her show, a show I very much loved, are absolutely absent in her current persona, particularly as it manifests on Twitter. She is a supporter of Donald Trump, vocalizing her thoughts about making America great, claiming that with her vote, she was trying to shake things up. She tweets conspiracy theories, rails against feminism and shares Islamophobic opinions.
Where once she was edgy and provocative, she is now absurd and offensive. Her views are muddled and incoherent. She is more invested in banal and shallow provocation than engaging with sociopolitical issues in a thoughtful manner. No amount of mental gymnastics can make what Roseanne Barr has said and done in recent years palatable.
Nonetheless, I was curious about what Roseanne Conner, her famous television alter ego, has been up to. The original “Roseanne” was a smart, hilarious and groundbreaking show that covered a lot of important ground in prime-time television. I wanted to see how the Conners were doing 20 years later.
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18 million people watched, a network TV high since 2014 — are the same tensions that shape this current political climate. Roseanne the character voted for Donald Trump because he talked about “jobs.” For that she sacrificed so many other things. The promise of jobs and the myth of the white working class as the only people struggling in this country, which animates so much of our present political moment, are right there, in this sitcom.
In many ways, the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot are excellent. It is difficult to admit, but nearly everything about the production is competent. There is the familiarity of the Conner house, still well-worn, the iconic couch taking center stage in the family room. The original cast returned and their faces are pleasantly familiar — though not as aged as they could be, given the benefits of wealth, good skin-care regimens and, perhaps, medical intervention.
Darlene, the middle daughter, has moved back home with her two children, Harris and Mark, the latter of whom is gender nonconforming. D.J., the Conner son, was in the Army and has recently returned home from a tour in Syria. His wife, we learn indirectly, is still in the military, serving abroad, and D.J. is raising their daughter, who is black, while she is away. Roseanne and her sister, Jackie, played by Laurie Metcalf, have been estranged for a year because of the 2016 election, and when Jackie shows up, she’s wearing a “Nasty Woman” T-shirt and a pink pussy hat. Of course she is.
The Conners are still dealing with many of the economic struggles they have always faced. Darlene has lost her job. Roseanne and Dan are getting older and, like many Americans, cannot afford adequate health care as they try to share various medications. Becky, the oldest Conner child, is going to become a surrogate and sell her eggs to make $50,000. Darlene’s son, Mark, is being bullied at school for his gender presentation. The show isn’t shying away from difficult topics, and that is both what works and doesn’t. The Conners are portrayed as a typical working-class family and their problems are relatable, but it also feels as though the show is working through a checklist of “real issues” it wants to address, to demonstrate how the Conners are a modern American family.
The presence of D.J.’s daughter, Mary, is particularly awkward. When she appears, one of these things is clearly not like the other, but the show makes no mention of it as if to suggest how at ease the Conners are with difference. But Mary has no lines and very little camera time. We are given little information as to how she became part of the Conner family and what life for her is like in a small, predominantly white Illinois town where everyone, seemingly, voted for Donald Trump. Young Mary is just there, a place holder, tokenized and straining the limits of credulity.
When a lot of the mainstream media talks about the working class, there is a tendency to romanticize, to idealize them as the most authentic Americans. They are “real” and their problems are “real” problems, as if everyone else is dealing with artificial obstacles. We see this in some of the breathless media coverage of Trump voters and in a lot of the online chatter about the “Roseanne” reboot. What often goes unsaid is that when the working class is defined in our cultural imagination, we are talking about white people, even though the real American working class is made up of people from many races and ethnicities.
During a Television Critics Association panel promoting the show, Ms. Barr said, “it was working-class people who elected Trump.”
This myth persists, but it is only a myth. Forty-one percent of voters earning less than $50,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 53 percent voted for Hillary Clinton. Forty-nine percent of voters earning between $50,000 and $100,000 voted for Mr. Trump while 47 percent voted for Mrs. Clinton. The median income of these voters was $72,000, while the median income of Hillary Clinton voters was $61,000. A significant number of middle-class and wealthy white people contributed to Trump’s election.
In the show, during an exchange about their political disagreement, Roseanne tells Jackie one of the reasons she voted for Mr. Trump is because he “talked about jobs.” And that was all the political ideology we got. If we are to believe the circumstances of this character’s life, a few vague words about “jobs” was more than enough to compel Roseanne, with inadequate health care, with vulnerable grandchildren, and struggling to make ends meet, to vote for Mr. Trump.
How do you reach people who make dangerous political choices grounded in self-interest? When Roseanne and Jackie finally reconcile, Roseanne never apologizes or concedes. She merely tells Jackie, “I forgive you,” and Jackie acknowledges how hard that was for Roseanne. Clearly, we cannot reach people who make dangerous, myopic political choices. We concede, as Jackie does, or we resist, as hopefully the rest of us will.
In my book “Bad Feminist,” published in 2014, I wrote about giving myself permission to be flawed but feminist. I wrote about how sometimes I consume problematic pop culture, knowing I shouldn’t, knowing how harmful that pop culture can be. I still believe there is room for that, for having principles and enjoying things that challenge those principles. But in the ensuing years, I’ve also been thinking about accountability and the repercussions of our choices. I’ve been thinking about how nothing will change if we keep consuming problematic pop culture without demanding anything better.
As I watched the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot, I thought again about accountability. I laughed, yes, and enjoyed seeing the Conner family back on my screen. My first reaction was that the show was excellent. But I could not set aside what I know of Roseanne Barr and how toxic and dangerous her current public persona is. I could not overlook how the Conner family came together to support Mark as he was bullied at school for his gender presentation, after voting for a president who actively works against the transgender community. They voted for a president who doesn’t think the black life of their granddaughter matters. They act as if love can protect the most vulnerable members of their family from the repercussions of their political choices. It cannot.
This fictional family, and the show’s very real creator, are further normalizing Trump and his warped, harmful political ideologies. There are times when we can consume problematic pop culture, but this is not one of those times. I saw the first two episodes of the “Roseanne” reboot, but that’s all I am going to watch. It’s a small line to draw, but it’s a start.
MANY of the cast is distancing themselves from roseanne...
you KNEW it was coming...
okkkkkayyyyyy....
I haven't heard from him since.Tim probably going to be real careful about what he says from now on
I am so happy that show is being cancelled.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/29/media/roseanne-reruns-pulled/index.html
It's now a lot harder to watch 'Roseanne,' if you wanted to
by Sandra Gonzalez @CNNMoneyMay 29, 2018: 7:33 PM ET
ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist Twitter rant
cancellation of her show by ABC, streaming services and networks airing existing episodes have started distancing themselves from the show.
Hulu told CNN, "We support ABC's decision and are removing the show from Hulu."
Searching for the series on the service now yields a single result, a 2016 documentary titled "Roseanne For President."
On ABC's website, where all nine episodes from Season 10 had been available for viewing, the URL that once led to the "Roseanne" landing page now redirects users to the homepage or a list of current shows.
A CMT spokesperson also confirmed that Viacom's cable networks -- Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT -- will be pulling "Roseanne" from their respective schedules starting tomorrow.
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Additionally, The Laff network, a comedy-focused Scripps network, has pulled reruns of the sitcom from its air.
"While we believe viewers have always distinguished the personal behavior of the actress Roseanne Barr from the television character Roseanne Conner, we are disgusted by Barr's comments this week," the network said in a statement. "Therefore, we are removing the original 'Roseanne' series from the Laff schedule for the time being, effective immediately."
Barr has not responded to news of the show's cancellation, but a few of her cast members have.
Michael Fishman, who has played D.J. Conner on the series since its start in 1988, said he's "devastated" following news.
Emma Kinney, who joined the series in the most recent season, said she supported the network's decision.
ABC canceled "Roseanne" hours after Barr's comments about Valerie Jarrett, former aid to President Obama, Chelsea Clinton and George Soros caused an outcry.
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement.
Disney CEO Bob Iger added that "there was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing," in a statement on Twitter.
"Roseanne" returned to TV back in March after more than ten years off the air. Season 11 had been planned to premiere in the fall.
The ABC executive who fired Roseanne hired her last year
by Brian Lowry @blowryontvMay 29, 2018: 7:49 PM ET
ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist Twitter rant
Disney CEO Robert Iger, who publicly backed the decision, tweeting, "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing."
Still, filling the sudden hole in ABC's primetime lineup is a task that will largely fall to Dungey, whose network finished the season with a bit of momentum thanks to the ratings success of "Roseanne" and to a lesser degree "American Idol" and the new drama "The Good Doctor." The move also creates uncertainty at a moment when the networks are negotiating ad deals for the coming season, which officially begins in September.
Dungey, 49, was named president of ABC Entertainment in February 2016. Prior to that, she oversaw drama development for the network, where she was involved in launching many of ABC's long-running series, including "Scandal," "How to Get Away With Murder" and "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD."
Dungey has been closely aligned with "Scandal" creator Shonda Rhimes -- she first worked with the producer during the early days of "Grey's Anatomy" -- but ABC was shaken when Rhimes entered into an exclusive agreement with Netflix for all future series. Despite that arrangement, Rhimes continues to produce several existing shows for ABC.
Related: Disney CEO Bob Iger: It was the 'right thing' to cancel 'Roseanne'
Rhimes was among those who took to Twitter to praise Dungey for taking what was seen as decisive action in canceling "Roseanne." "Thank you, Channing," Rhimes tweeted, while Dungey's sister, actress Merrin Dungey -- whose recent credits include HBO's "Big Little Lies" and Fox's "The Resident" -- also expressed support, tweeting, "My sister is a BALLER."
When "Roseanne" premiered to an unexpectedly large audience, Dungey and Sherwood credited the program to an initiative undertaken in the wake of the 2016 election. As Dungey told the New York Times, the goal was to address "economic diversity and some of the other cultural divisions without our own country. That's been something we've been really looking at with eyes open since that time."
Dungey's tenure at ABC has been no stranger to controversy, including the decision to pull an episode of the sitcom "Black-ish" that dealt with the debate over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, and shutting down -- before eventually resuming -- production of the reality show "Bachelor in Paradise" in 2017, after allegations of misconduct involving two contestants.
Dungey's current position includes oversight of all programming for ABC primetime as well as late night. A UCLA graduate, she joined ABC Studios in 2004, after working in feature films at various production companies and at Warner Bros.
by Brian Lowry @blowryontvMay 29, 2018: 7:49 PM ET
ABC cancels 'Roseanne' after star's racist Twitter rant
Disney CEO Robert Iger, who publicly backed the decision, tweeting, "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing."
Still, filling the sudden hole in ABC's primetime lineup is a task that will largely fall to Dungey, whose network finished the season with a bit of momentum thanks to the ratings success of "Roseanne" and to a lesser degree "American Idol" and the new drama "The Good Doctor." The move also creates uncertainty at a moment when the networks are negotiating ad deals for the coming season, which officially begins in September.
Dungey, 49, was named president of ABC Entertainment in February 2016. Prior to that, she oversaw drama development for the network, where she was involved in launching many of ABC's long-running series, including "Scandal," "How to Get Away With Murder" and "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD."
Dungey has been closely aligned with "Scandal" creator Shonda Rhimes -- she first worked with the producer during the early days of "Grey's Anatomy" -- but ABC was shaken when Rhimes entered into an exclusive agreement with Netflix for all future series. Despite that arrangement, Rhimes continues to produce several existing shows for ABC.
Related: Disney CEO Bob Iger: It was the 'right thing' to cancel 'Roseanne'
Rhimes was among those who took to Twitter to praise Dungey for taking what was seen as decisive action in canceling "Roseanne." "Thank you, Channing," Rhimes tweeted, while Dungey's sister, actress Merrin Dungey -- whose recent credits include HBO's "Big Little Lies" and Fox's "The Resident" -- also expressed support, tweeting, "My sister is a BALLER."
When "Roseanne" premiered to an unexpectedly large audience, Dungey and Sherwood credited the program to an initiative undertaken in the wake of the 2016 election. As Dungey told the New York Times, the goal was to address "economic diversity and some of the other cultural divisions without our own country. That's been something we've been really looking at with eyes open since that time."
Dungey's tenure at ABC has been no stranger to controversy, including the decision to pull an episode of the sitcom "Black-ish" that dealt with the debate over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem, and shutting down -- before eventually resuming -- production of the reality show "Bachelor in Paradise" in 2017, after allegations of misconduct involving two contestants.
Dungey's current position includes oversight of all programming for ABC primetime as well as late night. A UCLA graduate, she joined ABC Studios in 2004, after working in feature films at various production companies and at Warner Bros.
CTV pulls 'Roseanne' from its television and streaming platforms
In this image released by ABC, Roseanne Barr, left, and John Goodman appear in a scene from the season finale of 'Roseanne,' airing Tuesday, May 22. (Adam Rose/ABC via AP)
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:55PM EDT
Last Updated Tuesday, May 29, 2018 5:13PM EDT
TORONTO - CTV says it is pulling "Roseanne" from its television and streaming platforms following a racist tweet on Tuesday by the show's star Roseanne Barr.
CTV Communications tweeted its plans less than two hours after the show's U.S. network, ABC, said it was cancelling the series.
Barr apologized for suggesting on Twitter that former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett is a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the "Planet of the Apes."
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But the comment drew widespread condemnation from observers including consulting producer Wanda Sykes, who tweeted that she would not return to the show, and executive producer Sara Gilbert, who said the comments "are abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew."
"Roseanne" recently concluded its first-season run Tuesdays on CTV but had also been available to stream on CTV.ca and the CTV Go app.
A CTV spokesman says the episodes were being removed from those platforms, as well as the on-demand services available through the country's various cable providers.
In this image released by ABC, Roseanne Barr, left, and John Goodman appear in a scene from the season finale of 'Roseanne,' airing Tuesday, May 22. (Adam Rose/ABC via AP)
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:55PM EDT
Last Updated Tuesday, May 29, 2018 5:13PM EDT
TORONTO - CTV says it is pulling "Roseanne" from its television and streaming platforms following a racist tweet on Tuesday by the show's star Roseanne Barr.
CTV Communications tweeted its plans less than two hours after the show's U.S. network, ABC, said it was cancelling the series.
Barr apologized for suggesting on Twitter that former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett is a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and the "Planet of the Apes."
RELATED STORIES
But the comment drew widespread condemnation from observers including consulting producer Wanda Sykes, who tweeted that she would not return to the show, and executive producer Sara Gilbert, who said the comments "are abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew."
"Roseanne" recently concluded its first-season run Tuesdays on CTV but had also been available to stream on CTV.ca and the CTV Go app.
A CTV spokesman says the episodes were being removed from those platforms, as well as the on-demand services available through the country's various cable providers.
Hulu Scrambles to Pull All Reruns of Roseanne After Star's Racist Tweet
Tom McKay
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The torturous situation caused by TV star and far-right conspiracy theorist Roseanne Barr, whose 90s-era show Roseanne was revived for 2018 in some kind of horribly misguided effort to appeal to Donald Trump supporters, culminated in a predictable implosion this week. Barr—who has been tweeting for months about the 4chan-born Qanon theory that ludicrously alleges Democratic leadership are members of a Satanic pedophilia cartel—sent out a racist tweet smearing Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, resulting in the show’s abrupt cancellation by ABC.
Now, per Entertainment Weekly, streaming giant Hulu and digital network Laff have made the same call as a number of TV networks including Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT, pulling Roseanne from their streaming libraries. (Hulu only had streaming rights for the revival, while the other networks appear to be clearing out their entire back catalogue of Roseanne episodes.)
EW wrote:
In fact, Hulu seems to have jumped ahead of its own stated termination date. As of Tuesday evening, the show is listed as “Currently Unavailable”on its streaming website.
“We support ABC’s decision and are removing the show from Hulu,” a Hulu spokesperson told Hollywood Reporter. The site also noted that Amazon “still has SVOD rights to seasons one through nine of the original series.” As of Tuesday evening, both the original seasons and the revival remained available to purchase there.
According to Deadline, ABC has additionally halted its campaign to promote Roseanne for the Emmys, and all promotional materials for the show have been yanked from websites belonging to it and Disney, one of Hulu’s owners.
In retrospect, this all seemed inevitable, given Barr’s Twitter feed has been filled with all manner of vile racism and bigotry for a decade. It’s possible this singular tweet was the reason for the cancellation. But the speed by which many of those involved in the production and distribution of the highly-rated show are distancing themselves seems to suggest that ABC had realized the Barr situation was reaching a boil prior to Tuesday, though perhaps not until after they signed for another season in late March.
Entertainment and employement lawyers told Law & Crime that while Barr’s contract probably contained a “morality clause” requiring her to maintain an acceptable degree of public decorum, ABC could still be on the line to pay out talent and crew who signed on to the revival and the next season. So if TV executives miscalculated how toxic Barr was and would continue to be under the spotlight, that was a disastrous mistake—albeit one that is deserving of no sympathy whatsoever.
Tom McKay
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Screenshot: Hulu
The torturous situation caused by TV star and far-right conspiracy theorist Roseanne Barr, whose 90s-era show Roseanne was revived for 2018 in some kind of horribly misguided effort to appeal to Donald Trump supporters, culminated in a predictable implosion this week. Barr—who has been tweeting for months about the 4chan-born Qanon theory that ludicrously alleges Democratic leadership are members of a Satanic pedophilia cartel—sent out a racist tweet smearing Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, resulting in the show’s abrupt cancellation by ABC.
Now, per Entertainment Weekly, streaming giant Hulu and digital network Laff have made the same call as a number of TV networks including Paramount Network, TV Land, and CMT, pulling Roseanne from their streaming libraries. (Hulu only had streaming rights for the revival, while the other networks appear to be clearing out their entire back catalogue of Roseanne episodes.)
EW wrote:
Starting tomorrow, syndicated episodes of the recently revived sitcom — which was axed by ABC earlier today after racist tweets from star/co-creator Roseanne Barr ignited a social media firestorm — will no longer run in rotation across the channels.
Laff, a digital network that specializes in reruns of popular sitcoms, has similarly yanked old episodes of the series. “While we believe viewers have always distinguished the personal behavior of the actress Roseanne Barr from the television character Roseanne Conner, we are disgusted by Barr’s comments this week,” read Laff’s official statement. “Therefore, we are removing the original Roseanne series from the Laff schedule for the time being, effective immediately.”
Laff, a digital network that specializes in reruns of popular sitcoms, has similarly yanked old episodes of the series. “While we believe viewers have always distinguished the personal behavior of the actress Roseanne Barr from the television character Roseanne Conner, we are disgusted by Barr’s comments this week,” read Laff’s official statement. “Therefore, we are removing the original Roseanne series from the Laff schedule for the time being, effective immediately.”
In fact, Hulu seems to have jumped ahead of its own stated termination date. As of Tuesday evening, the show is listed as “Currently Unavailable”on its streaming website.
“We support ABC’s decision and are removing the show from Hulu,” a Hulu spokesperson told Hollywood Reporter. The site also noted that Amazon “still has SVOD rights to seasons one through nine of the original series.” As of Tuesday evening, both the original seasons and the revival remained available to purchase there.
According to Deadline, ABC has additionally halted its campaign to promote Roseanne for the Emmys, and all promotional materials for the show have been yanked from websites belonging to it and Disney, one of Hulu’s owners.
In retrospect, this all seemed inevitable, given Barr’s Twitter feed has been filled with all manner of vile racism and bigotry for a decade. It’s possible this singular tweet was the reason for the cancellation. But the speed by which many of those involved in the production and distribution of the highly-rated show are distancing themselves seems to suggest that ABC had realized the Barr situation was reaching a boil prior to Tuesday, though perhaps not until after they signed for another season in late March.
Entertainment and employement lawyers told Law & Crime that while Barr’s contract probably contained a “morality clause” requiring her to maintain an acceptable degree of public decorum, ABC could still be on the line to pay out talent and crew who signed on to the revival and the next season. So if TV executives miscalculated how toxic Barr was and would continue to be under the spotlight, that was a disastrous mistake—albeit one that is deserving of no sympathy whatsoever.
Valerie Jarrett Says Roseanne Tweet ‘a Teaching Moment’
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Valerie Jarrett spoke about the tweets directed at her by Roseanne Barr during an appearance on an MSNBC town hall on Tuesday.
“I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment,” Jarrett said “I’m fine. I’m worried about all the people out there who don’t have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense–the person who’s walking down the street minding their own business and they see somebody cling to their purse or walk across the street. Or every black parent I know who has a boy who has to sit down and have a conversation, ‘the talk’ as we call it. Those ordinary examples of racism that happen every single day.”
Barr came under fire early Tuesday for saying that former Obama aide Jarrett looks like the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.” Jarrett, an African-American, was born in Iran to American parents. Barr’s comments were quickly denounced as racist. Just hours later, ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey announced ABC was cancelling the planned second revival season of the show, which would have been its eleventh overall.
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“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” Dungey said in a statement.
Just after Barr’s statement on Jarrett, Wanda Sykes, who worked as a consulting producer on the first revival season, announced she would not be returning for the show’s next season. Series co-star and executive producer Sara Gilbert then condemned Barr’s comments, saying, “Roseanne’s recent comments about Valerie Jarrett, and so much more, are abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show. I am disappointed in her actions to say the least. This is incredibly sad and difficult for all of us, as we’ve created a show that we believe in, are proud of, and that audiences love — one that is separate and apart from the opinions and words of one cast member.”
The revival of “Roseanne” was not only the top show on ABC, but one of the top shows on all of television. ABC had been poised to finish the traditional September-May television season in fourth place in the key adults 18-49 demographic among the Big 4 broadcast networks, but “Roseanne’s” massive ratings drove them to a tie for second place instead.
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Valerie Jarrett spoke about the tweets directed at her by Roseanne Barr during an appearance on an MSNBC town hall on Tuesday.
“I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment,” Jarrett said “I’m fine. I’m worried about all the people out there who don’t have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense–the person who’s walking down the street minding their own business and they see somebody cling to their purse or walk across the street. Or every black parent I know who has a boy who has to sit down and have a conversation, ‘the talk’ as we call it. Those ordinary examples of racism that happen every single day.”
Barr came under fire early Tuesday for saying that former Obama aide Jarrett looks like the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.” Jarrett, an African-American, was born in Iran to American parents. Barr’s comments were quickly denounced as racist. Just hours later, ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey announced ABC was cancelling the planned second revival season of the show, which would have been its eleventh overall.
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“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” Dungey said in a statement.
Just after Barr’s statement on Jarrett, Wanda Sykes, who worked as a consulting producer on the first revival season, announced she would not be returning for the show’s next season. Series co-star and executive producer Sara Gilbert then condemned Barr’s comments, saying, “Roseanne’s recent comments about Valerie Jarrett, and so much more, are abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show. I am disappointed in her actions to say the least. This is incredibly sad and difficult for all of us, as we’ve created a show that we believe in, are proud of, and that audiences love — one that is separate and apart from the opinions and words of one cast member.”
The revival of “Roseanne” was not only the top show on ABC, but one of the top shows on all of television. ABC had been poised to finish the traditional September-May television season in fourth place in the key adults 18-49 demographic among the Big 4 broadcast networks, but “Roseanne’s” massive ratings drove them to a tie for second place instead.
Wow....O'Reilly? Lol, I gotta go back and read that again....maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me.
Somebody did make a good point on this tweet.... Roseanne did make a similar statement about Susan Rice in 2013..
The only Cast member that I'm pissed got sunk into this is John Goodman... It feels like I've been a John Goodman fan since the beginning of time.. Back when he dropped King Ralph. He was my John Candy substitute.
I'm going to need my man to get another gig. If I was ABC.... I would start developing another show for John.
Joss Whedon gets it..
To be on the real... ROSEANNE the show... would still work without ROSEANNE... you could just use the other characters.
http://variety.com/video/roseanne-cancellation-analysis-roseanne-barr/
Variety’s co-editor-in-chief Andrew Wallenstein and senior TV reporter Dan Holloway break down the significance of ABC canceling its top-rated sitcom, “Roseanne,” in light of Roseanne Barr’s racist Tweet about Valerie Jarrett.
Holloway cites Barr’s history of inflammatory social media posts as a cause of concern among viewers even before the series aired, while he notes that keeping “Roseanne” afloat without the series’ star would have been a tough sell.
Wallenstein and Holloway also discuss how ABC has been billing itself as the diversity network for “years now” and considered “Roseanne” a part of that by featuring “families living in the Midwest whose members held in some cases deeply, deeply conservative views.”
Whether or not Trump, who has Tweeted about the show before, will get involved is up for debate, but Holloway could not deny the temptation for the Twitter-happy president.
‘Roseanne’ Cancellation Leaves Huge Crater in ABC’s Fall Schedule
By Daniel Holloway
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The abrupt cancellation of “Roseanne” will have a massive impact on ABC’s plans for the fall.
At its upfront presentation to advertisers two weeks ago, ABC unveiled a fall schedule that boasted “Roseanne” leading off the Tuesday-night primetime lineup. The revived multi-camera sitcom had just secured its place as the 2017-18 season’s No. 1 scripted show in Nielsen’s 18-49 demo. Heading into the upfront, ABC had positioned the show as the long-sought answer to the network’s Tuesday-night woes and the new face of its comedy brand.
On Tuesday, ABC canceled “Roseanne” just hours after star Roseanne Barr published a racist Tweet about former Obama-administration White House aide Valerie Jarrett.
Tuesdays had for years vexed ABC, with each season bringing a new strategy for reviving the network’s fortunes on the night. In 2013-14, ABC made the unorthodox move of putting freshman Marvel drama “Agents of SHIELD” on at 8 p.m., where comedies had typically dwelled. Two seasons later, another Disney-owned franchise, “The Muppets,” was given a shot at 8 p.m. Last season, “Black-ish” was relocated to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, where the network hoped it would anchor the primetime block much as “Modern Family” had for years on Wednesday nights.
None of those moves mattered, and ABC continued to flounder on Tuesdays. But “Roseanne” promised a solution. At 8 p.m., it would go head-to-head with “The Voice” on NBC and “NCIS” on CBS and provide formidable competition to both — even with a likely ratings decline in the upcoming season. The decision to schedule new single-camera comedy “The Kids Are Alright” at 8:30 p.m. was a risk, but one with potential payoff if the freshman series proved able to hold a significant chunk of the “Roseanne” audience and establish itself. “Black-ish” and “Splitting Up Together,” scheduled for 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., respectively, had already proven themselves able schedule partners to “Roseanne.”
At 10 p.m., ABC execs had high hopes for “The Rookie,” a freshman drama starring Nathan Fillion as a middle-aged man who joins the Los Angeles Police Department. The morning of the upfront, ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey told reporters that “The Rookie” would appeal to “the broad base of viewers that we start off the night with” — a reference to the outsize ratings earned by “Roseanne,” which played particularly well in Midwestern states — and acknowledged that 10 p.m. Tuesdays “has been a challenging time period in the past.”
Without “Roseanne,” ABC’s options for saving Tuesday night are limited. The network could, conceivably, make a bold move such as tearing “Modern Family” from its longtime Wednesday perch and placing it in the Tuesday lead-off spot. But doing so would hobble the survival chances of freshman comedy “Single Parents” at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and freshman drama “A Million Little Things” at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Tinkering with Wednesday risks undermining a night in which ABC is fairly well positioned, at least until 10 p.m. But one possible move would be to dispatch season three of “American Housewife” to Tuesdays and rearranging the two hour comedy block there into whatever order would make the most sense (and do the least damage to “The Kids Are Alright,” for which ABC has high hopes).
That move would mean waving a white flag on Tuesdays — but present an intriguing opportunity on Wednesdays. The only new comedy other than “The Kids are Alright” to get a series order from ABC for next season is “Schooled,” a spinoff of “The Goldbergs.” “Schooled” is not yet on the schedule, but almost any “Roseanne” patch-job scenario involves it being moved to fall. Placing it at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday behind “The Goldbergs” gives the spinoff a solid shot at capturing the original’s audience. Alternatively, ABC could move “Fresh Off the Boat” or “Speechless” from the newly formed Friday comedy hour to Tuesday, then move “Schooled” into the vacant slot — or go with the unscripted standby of “Shark Tank” reruns on Friday in place of the comedy block, holding whichever comedy doesn’t move to Tuesday until midseason.
If ABC needs to ramp up additional development, it has Kenya Barris and Julie Bean’s untitled family comedy still in development. The show had been ordered to straight to series last season, but was pushed to off-cycle development in February after ABC failed to find a suitable replacement when planned star Alec Baldwin left the project.
A decision on ABC’s fall schedule is not expected for at least several days.
By Daniel Holloway
@gdanielholloway
The abrupt cancellation of “Roseanne” will have a massive impact on ABC’s plans for the fall.
At its upfront presentation to advertisers two weeks ago, ABC unveiled a fall schedule that boasted “Roseanne” leading off the Tuesday-night primetime lineup. The revived multi-camera sitcom had just secured its place as the 2017-18 season’s No. 1 scripted show in Nielsen’s 18-49 demo. Heading into the upfront, ABC had positioned the show as the long-sought answer to the network’s Tuesday-night woes and the new face of its comedy brand.
On Tuesday, ABC canceled “Roseanne” just hours after star Roseanne Barr published a racist Tweet about former Obama-administration White House aide Valerie Jarrett.
Tuesdays had for years vexed ABC, with each season bringing a new strategy for reviving the network’s fortunes on the night. In 2013-14, ABC made the unorthodox move of putting freshman Marvel drama “Agents of SHIELD” on at 8 p.m., where comedies had typically dwelled. Two seasons later, another Disney-owned franchise, “The Muppets,” was given a shot at 8 p.m. Last season, “Black-ish” was relocated to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, where the network hoped it would anchor the primetime block much as “Modern Family” had for years on Wednesday nights.
None of those moves mattered, and ABC continued to flounder on Tuesdays. But “Roseanne” promised a solution. At 8 p.m., it would go head-to-head with “The Voice” on NBC and “NCIS” on CBS and provide formidable competition to both — even with a likely ratings decline in the upcoming season. The decision to schedule new single-camera comedy “The Kids Are Alright” at 8:30 p.m. was a risk, but one with potential payoff if the freshman series proved able to hold a significant chunk of the “Roseanne” audience and establish itself. “Black-ish” and “Splitting Up Together,” scheduled for 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., respectively, had already proven themselves able schedule partners to “Roseanne.”
At 10 p.m., ABC execs had high hopes for “The Rookie,” a freshman drama starring Nathan Fillion as a middle-aged man who joins the Los Angeles Police Department. The morning of the upfront, ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey told reporters that “The Rookie” would appeal to “the broad base of viewers that we start off the night with” — a reference to the outsize ratings earned by “Roseanne,” which played particularly well in Midwestern states — and acknowledged that 10 p.m. Tuesdays “has been a challenging time period in the past.”
Without “Roseanne,” ABC’s options for saving Tuesday night are limited. The network could, conceivably, make a bold move such as tearing “Modern Family” from its longtime Wednesday perch and placing it in the Tuesday lead-off spot. But doing so would hobble the survival chances of freshman comedy “Single Parents” at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and freshman drama “A Million Little Things” at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Tinkering with Wednesday risks undermining a night in which ABC is fairly well positioned, at least until 10 p.m. But one possible move would be to dispatch season three of “American Housewife” to Tuesdays and rearranging the two hour comedy block there into whatever order would make the most sense (and do the least damage to “The Kids Are Alright,” for which ABC has high hopes).
That move would mean waving a white flag on Tuesdays — but present an intriguing opportunity on Wednesdays. The only new comedy other than “The Kids are Alright” to get a series order from ABC for next season is “Schooled,” a spinoff of “The Goldbergs.” “Schooled” is not yet on the schedule, but almost any “Roseanne” patch-job scenario involves it being moved to fall. Placing it at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday behind “The Goldbergs” gives the spinoff a solid shot at capturing the original’s audience. Alternatively, ABC could move “Fresh Off the Boat” or “Speechless” from the newly formed Friday comedy hour to Tuesday, then move “Schooled” into the vacant slot — or go with the unscripted standby of “Shark Tank” reruns on Friday in place of the comedy block, holding whichever comedy doesn’t move to Tuesday until midseason.
If ABC needs to ramp up additional development, it has Kenya Barris and Julie Bean’s untitled family comedy still in development. The show had been ordered to straight to series last season, but was pushed to off-cycle development in February after ABC failed to find a suitable replacement when planned star Alec Baldwin left the project.
A decision on ABC’s fall schedule is not expected for at least several days.
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