Racist tweets bring an end to comedy's biggest comeback.
May 29, 2018
Just two months after picking up Roseanne for an 11th season, ABC has reversed the move. The cancellation comes after show star Roseanne Barr took to Twitter with a series of racist and anti-semitic posts. The most offending being a now-deleted tweet calling adviser to former President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, an offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”
The backlash that followed was immediate and intense, with numerous celebrities and pundits speaking out against her remarks. Barr subsequently apologized, calling the tweet a joke, but it was too late. The damage had been done.
Comedian Wanda Sykes was the first person involved with the show to make a move, announcing her departure from writing on Season 2 this morning. But that was just the beginning, as mere hours later, ABC Entertainment chief Channing Dungey announced that the network was cancelling the show due to her "abhorrent, repugnant" words that were "inconsistent with our values."
The decision was obviously not made lightly, as Roseanne's comeback was the biggest success story ever for a revived series. The show's Season 10 premiere in March surpassed all expectations by drawing a massive audience of 18 million viewers with an impressive 5.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. Those numbers are almost unheard of nowadays, especially for broadcast comedies.
But now instead of going on another likely-lengthy run, Roseanne's revival ends after just nine episodes, with the now-series finale airing one week ago.
Johnny Boy
07/30/18 at 03:40pm
Make America Great Again
tirebiter
07/25/18 at 10:44am
@Well Gee Willikers - FWIW, I've read that Barr has agreed to not be compensated for the spinoff in order to save the jobs of the rest of the cast and crew. So she'll just have to scrape by somehow on the $100 million she has squirreled away.
JP
07/01/18 at 12:39pm
I guess thats what you get when liars like Fox news support a racist in office and play his comments. Fox news is more pro russian, anti-american than the russian owned RTV. I only watch the patriotic CNN or MSNBC.
Well Gee Willikers
06/25/18 at 09:39am
So the show has been revived,only it's called "The Connors" and although Rosanne Barr will not be in it,she is still the executive producer of the show.She still has a Job
Ken_In_Las_Vegas_NV_USA
06/23/18 at 08:56am
I suspect that Roseanne will be back, just not on any of the racist, Marxist networks (like ABC). What happens next probably depends on what's in her contract, (and the outcome of any litigation proceedings).
Renee
06/21/18 at 02:26am
I saw that there may be a spin off without Rosanne being a part of it... I’have no interest in watching. A show with out Rosanne can not be a spin off. She was the show....
tirebiter
06/19/18 at 08:10pm
@Tony D. from your 6/4 post.
You still don't see it. It doesn't matter how much respect a black person gives the cop who just pulled him over because he didn't signal a turn more than 100 feet from the corner. Has that ever happened to you? Has the FIRST thing the cop said to you was "Did you steal this car"? Have you ever heard of a white man being choked to death by a cop for selling loose cigarettes?
Just think about it. If these things happened to people of your race ALL THE TIME, wouldn't you feel some justification for being frustrated to the point of becoming an activist?
And yes, the black community has had hundreds of peaceful protests. You might have missed them because they're not covered by Fox News and Breitbart.
You callously condemn football players for their peaceful protests while claiming the only protests that black people do is to burn down their communities.
I repeat. It is not disrespecting the flag. It's making a statement about the powerlessness that black people endure when trying to raise awareness of how unfairly they're treated.
Do you know that on a percentage basis, blacks and whites use drugs at similar rates? But blacks are THREE TIMES more likely to be charged, tried and sent to prison.
So you bet a black person shows respect when he's pulled over. It could be his death or the end of his freedom. For you, it's whether or not you can talk your way out of a ticket.
Johnny MAN
06/14/18 at 11:49am
Conservtards are just taking credit for Great O Bama's work. They don't realize, because they are sheep distracted by calling others names (like Rosanne did), that there leader is a communist Russian. That is why after years of people like Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Obama, trying to protect the world from USSR he goes and lifts sanctions on them and puts tarrifs on Canada. We (liberals who like liberty) are not angry but just not distracted. The name calling right are the ones who are both distracted and angry (probably because they know they are being mislead)
Johnny Boy
06/13/18 at 10:49am
You libtards just hate Trump winning. His leading us to the promised land and making the world a better place by sending illegals back to their own countries to fix their own problems. He even created a peace accord with the great Nation of North Korea...Buckle up snowflakes your gonna have to deal with MY president for 6 more year.....Make America Great Again and bring back Roseanne
Ha
06/12/18 at 07:42am
140 comments later and Tards turned this into a debate..Lmao
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