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  • Roseanne Barr Tore Apart ‘Low-Rated’ ABC In Her Return To Stand-Up

    03/21/2019 9:00:12 AM PDT · by simpson96 · 26 replies
    Uproxx ^ | 3/19/2019 | Matt Prigge
    Roseanne Barr didn’t go down quietly. As you may recall, over the summer, the comedian, actress, and TV legend found the revival of her classic show Roseanne cancelled after a tweet she made in which she compared a black woman to an ape. During the fall-out, she was quick to go on the likes of Hannity, and to slam ABC for what they did next: taking the remaining cast and crew and launching the spin-off The Connors. Its maiden episode found them killing off “Granny Rose.” You wouldn’t expect someone as volatile as Barr to calm down in the ensuing...
  • ABC Executives Regret Firing Roseanne, Fear ‘Connors’ Spin-Off Series will Flop

    10/12/2018 6:40:56 AM PDT · by Drew68 · 129 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/12/2018 | Ben Kew
    Executives at ABC now believe that their decision to fire Roseanne Barr from their revival of Roseanne was a mistake and the network’s spin-off series The Conners may flop, according to a report from Mail Online. Two senior executives at the network told the outlet that ABC President Channing Dungey’s decision to immediately fire the actress and cancel her show after she made racially charged comments about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was a “knee-jerk” decision that they would later regret. “We didn’t think it through properly. What Roseanne did was wrong but we shouldn’t have rushed to fire her....