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The 'Murphy Brown' reboot to be the anti-'Roseanne,' full of liberal laughs
Yahoo News ^ | May 17, 2018 | Ken Tucker

Posted on 05/18/2018 1:52:42 PM PDT by ethom

I don’t know whether the Murphy Brown reboot planned for fall will be funny, but I do know it’s going to be political. At Tuesday’s CBS “upfront” — the annual unveiling of new fall shows for the networks to sell to advertisers — Candice Bergen was on hand to introduce a peek at the first new season of Murphy Brown since the show went off the air in 1998 after 10 seasons. Bergen, looking impish and energetic at age 72, said that “we wanted to stay really topical, so we didn’t shoot a pilot because if we did we’d already be several news cycles and Stormys out of date.”

I wonder if Bergen and the network really comprehend the potential resistance they’re going to face with this new Murphy Brown. The network they’re satirizing — Fox News — is going to be out there full-force, stirring up animosity among their viewers for this liberal sitcom. This will be especially true if the network and its audience believe that Roseanne has been muzzled for its conservative views.

It’s not as though Murphy Brown has never been political before this, of course. That son she’ll soon be competing against is the same born-out-of-wedlock child that inspired real-life criticism from Vice President Dan Quayle back in 1992. Bergen — whose movie career is still active with the comedy Book Club opening this weekend — isn’t shying away from the Fox News comparisons: “Cable news is populated with all kinds, like the Hannitys of the world and actual journalists too,” she said. The new Murphy Brown will have a combination of old and new cast members, including Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto, and Grant Shaud from the original cast. CBS has ordered 13 episodes for a fall premiere.

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To: ethom
Liberal laughs? ROTFLMAO!
41 posted on 05/18/2018 2:44:06 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Lol!
I guess that Depends...


42 posted on 05/18/2018 2:44:18 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: ethom

Faith Ford... Yum!


43 posted on 05/18/2018 2:45:24 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Liz

AGHHHHH!!! My eyes feel like they’ve been hit with bear spray!
Where’s the eyewash fountain!!?

Candice Bergen has not aged well, to put it very mildly.

She was almost funny as Murphy Brown (Newt Gingrich once appeared) because she was ideological only 95% of the time.

Never thought I’d be cheering for Roseanne. Maybe each will satirize the other’s show in their own. That’d be a hoot.


44 posted on 05/18/2018 2:45:59 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Liz

Her head looks three sizes too big!


45 posted on 05/18/2018 2:48:09 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: ethom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi

2003

It reminds me of this series. It lasted one season.

And they spent most of the episodes taking shots of another Republican President George W. Bush.

They ran out of material, and of course nobody watched it.


46 posted on 05/18/2018 2:51:58 PM PDT by skinndogNN
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

She got her brains from her dad:


Her dad was so good a ventriloquist he had a radio show.


47 posted on 05/18/2018 2:54:23 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ethom

The results will be similar to conservative radio vs. liberal radio.

Remember Air America?


48 posted on 05/18/2018 2:56:58 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: ethom

Yeah I’m sure it will be lots of laughs. It is coming out just as even ash holes like Kimmel are realizing the people don’t want “plenty of liberal laughs.” One season at most.


49 posted on 05/18/2018 2:58:14 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: ethom

Murphy will not likely be the hit Roseanne has been. Murphy is not a sympathetic character and Candice is certainly not; being one of the Hollywood elite has done nothing for her but to age her in an unbecoming fashion.

It would be most interesting to see Robert Pastorelli and Sienfeld’s Kramer once again on a weekly basis.

Cybil Sheppard and Bruce Willis rebooting?? It will never be seen. Cybil and Bruce have moved on from Moonlighting in their different directions. And the premise of Moonlighting? It was a very good series until romance and jealousy entered the picture It suffered greatly when finally, thankfully, was given the old heave ho.


50 posted on 05/18/2018 2:59:04 PM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: ethom

this will crash and burn no doubt in my mind


51 posted on 05/18/2018 3:00:35 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: ethom

Every time I hear a fact about how kids suffer in a fatherless household, I think about all the liberal pigs who mocked Dan Quayle in defense of Murphey Brown liberals. It still makes my blood boil.


52 posted on 05/18/2018 3:03:22 PM PDT by Mark was here (Fake news = "Hands up ... Dont shoot")
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To: Mark was here

IIRC Candice Bergen eventually acknowledged that Dan Quayle was right.


53 posted on 05/18/2018 3:04:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ethom

I’ve been catching up with the Roseannes. Not bad but not as good as the original.

But I did enjoy the muslim episode. Particularly when Roseanne tried to break into her muslim neighbor’s internet password by typing “DeathtoAmerica123.” Roseanne: you’re funny.


54 posted on 05/18/2018 3:07:25 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: ethom

I see another show that will be canceled soon.


55 posted on 05/18/2018 3:15:26 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ethom

Maybe I’m wrong, but other than the “Dan Quayle” episode, my recollection is that the “political humor” on the original show was more along the lines of what Carson did back in the day: relatively harmless one liners about politicians in both parties.

If they’re going to go “all NeverTrump all the time” they’ll probably wear out their welcome pretty fast.

And it doesn’t help that Candace Bergen isn’t exactly the willowy MILF anymore.


56 posted on 05/18/2018 3:18:09 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines (Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
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To: ethom

Nearly everything, including kids cartoons is full of nothing but liberal slant... the idea of another left wing show, regardless of a reboot or not is just more of the same.


57 posted on 05/18/2018 3:20:28 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ethom

If I handed this article in as a 6th grade assignment I would have had to repeat the grade.

This guy gets paid for this ?


58 posted on 05/18/2018 3:22:12 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: hanamizu
"Her dad was so good a ventriloquist he had a radio show."

You've got to be a good ventriloquist on the radio so no one sees hears your lips move …

By the way, I believe Charlie McCarthy was her "real" dad, at least in the brains department!
 

59 posted on 05/18/2018 3:35:37 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: ethom

I saw Candace Bergen on a commercial and her face looked she got stung by one, big, killer bee. Ouch!

Botox kills. Slowly. It seems to go for the brain first, at least in Candace’s case.


60 posted on 05/18/2018 3:45:05 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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