🐱 ABC drops Roseanne show after racist tweet

http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/roseanne-canceled-abc-1202824211/

ABC has pulled the plug on the revival “Roseanne.”

The move comes after series star Roseanne Barr made a comment on Twitter Tuesday morning referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”

“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.

Barr deleted her tweet about Jarrett not long after posting it. She followed it up with an apology which read, “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste. I am now leaving Twitter.”

The revival of the classic sitcom was set to air a 13-episode eleventh season this fall. The move represents a remarkable turn of events for the network, Barr, and a show that finished the season as the No. 1 scripted primetime television series in the 18-49 demo, according to Nielsen live-plus-same say numbers.





Just two weeks ago at ABC’s upfront presentation, Barr introduced Disney-ABC Television Group president Ben Sherwood, joking that he was “the guy responsible for most of my tweets.” Sherwood and Barr hugged onstage, and the the exec noted that ABC had not had television’s No. 1 show in 24 years. Dungey, during her portion of the presentation, bragged that “The premiere ratings even took us by surprise,” claiming that 1 in 10 Americans has seen the “Roseanne” revival premiere.

More to come…

 

[AnOminous]

I'm so glad we live in a world where a pharmaceutical company is happy to blast one of its customers who very clearly needs the product they overcharge for because of her mental problems.

I thought it was funny that she fucked up so hard even a pharmaceutical company, one of the most evil kinds of entities in the world, was able to dunk on her.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I thought it was funny that she fucked up so hard even a pharmaceutical company, one of the most evil kinds of entities in the world, was able to dunk on her.

Yeah, but it's not like that's difficult. The socjus outrage is selective just like it always is. Roseanne is the bogeyman here, Charles Manson could wander into the slapfight to call her names and the right side of history would just cheer him on for it.

 

[Huitzilopochtli]

Roseanne an heroing her show via tweet is Rob Ford levels of questionable thinking. Ford at least didn't let his mishap get in his way. Which means the morale of the story is, "men are better than women at everything."

 

[drtoboggan]

Roseanne is an unfunny, obnoxious cunt. This is nothing new.

 

[ZeCommissar]

Roseanne tweets like that white trailer trash you know from highschool that always on meth.

Maybe she should lay off the meds.....or take more....whichever one works.

 

[Dysnomia]

the manufacturers of Ambien:
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the Brianna Wu jokes write themselves.

Yeah, but it's not like that's difficult. The socjus outrage is selective just like it always is. Roseanne is the bogeyman here, Charles Manson could wander into the slapfight to call her names and the right side of history would just cheer him on for it.

It's not who you are. It's what you say.

I think that cancelling the whole show over this really is a bit much. But it is the current year. The public shenanigans other celebrities got away with in the past are far riskier now. The suits must have went into panic mode when they saw that tweet. Advertisers would avoid Roseanne in droves.

 

[Uncle Warren]

Barring the obvious faux-outrage shown in this thread, losing a show over a tweet is just dumb, but tweeting it without knowing the consequences is just as dumb. At this point however, Roseanne needs to stop apologizing over it and just tell people to fuck off already.

 

[Count groudon]

Wow, to think centuries ago H.P lovecraft was screaming slurs out his window and naming his cat "little nigger man" and he went on to become a horror legend, and today one vaguely offensive tweet can destroy entire careers overnight.

What an interesting time to be alive.

 

[AnOminous]

I think that cancelling the whole show over this really is a bit much.

This would probably have killed even a successful show. It's hard to imagine worse timing.

Wow, to think centuries ago H.P lovecraft was screaming slurs out his window and naming his cat "little nigger man" and he went on to become a horror legend, and today one vaguely offensive tweet can destroy entire careers overnight.

What an interesting time to be alive.

And of course, he also wrote this:

 

[sperginity]

the manufacturers of Ambien:
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the Brianna Wu jokes write themselves.

These evil fucks shill a drug that is known to cause sleep DRIVING and have the balls to dunk on an old woman who was high as a kite tweeting on said drug? "Bizarre behavior" is a known side effect.

 

[Koby_Fish]

Can it really be racism if the person thought the other person was white? (since, ya know, it's perfectly acceptable even in IngSocJus land to dunk on whitey)?!

It's an easy enough mistake to make, after all. I personally know someone with a black grandfather, and the someone is a friggin pasty GINGER. All I can say is damn, VJ has some SERIOUS "white-passing privilege".

I know another person with like 100% YT ancestry including eyetalyan, but the person also looks like they could be blek. But they're not. Not even a little.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

The weird conspiracy theorist Mark Dice posted a video about Roseanne.

 

[Particle Bored]

The weird conspiracy theorist Mark Dice posted a video about Roseanne.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dltK5r4GBec

I wish he’d go back to prank interviews and trying to sell gold bullion on the street corner.

 

[BrunoMattei]

You know? I'll give her the Ambien excuse because her tweet reads like a weird stream of consciousness writing. At least to me. Cancelling the show is a little extreme but these are PC times we live in.

 

[ICametoLurk]

She's been making interesting retweets.

And tweets

What does this mean?

 

[BrunoMattei]

She's been making interesting retweets.

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And tweets

What does this mean?

Jesus tap dancing Christ. Okay, I rescind my previous comment.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Screen Capture of her Twitter now. She's retweeting stuff like Esoteric Exposal, Free Tommy Robinson, Anti-Obama, anti-Soros, Wikileaks, MAGA accounts, Child Trafficking maps, and more.

She's going full out.

Spoiler

 

[MrLobe]

I've always been sad about how Bryan Peck turned out. He was great in Return of the Living Dead.

 

[tehpope]

Is this a Disinfomation campaign on Roseanne's part or did she dive off the deep end?

 

[ICametoLurk]