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Stellar ratings and an apology weren't enough to mitigate Roseanne Barr's racist comments, and now ABC is pulling the plug on "Roseanne." ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey says the network has decided to cancel the "Roseanne" reboot.
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WOW. I was just about to check the validity of this, as the first posts I was seeing where from less then reliable type of sources.
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Well, that didn't take long.
I'm sure the President and others will attack the network for suppressing Roseann's free speech. While they're at it, they'll applaud the NFL's new policy of finding teams whose players kneel during the national anthem.... |
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ABCNews' story on this includes two references to Snopes--one a fact-check of the claim Jarrett is Muslim and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood (she's neither):
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"But I said I was sorry I tweeted that, that's supposed to absolve me of any responsibility or consequences."
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Roseanne thought she was bullet proof like Trump. She isn't. With any luck this is putting a few others on notice - only the President gets to tweet lying, racist crap without repercussions. So far...
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And what is it with you, Wanda Sykes? We love you and your comedy. I can't think of anyone who makes me laugh harder. But, seriously, Wanda, after all she's said in the past? I'm sorry but you should not have been involved in the first place. Not saying I blame you but I think you should be a bit more contrite than just "I'm not involved any more."
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I’m going to defend Wanda here, because I see both sides of the argument. She had an opportunity to be a voice, to add her opinion to a slanted mix, and possibly influence viewers she wouldn’t have reached otherwise. I wouldn’t tell anyone with that opportunity they shouldn’t get involved.
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I can see both sides to this. I can't believe anyone who knows Roseanne personally was unaware that she's a racist conspiracy theorist who doesn't have any boundaries - but I can also see the desire to work on a top rated show, collect a nice paycheque and hopefully exert some influence on what's being said on the show, especially if you had no real prior history with Roseanne. It was Gilbert, Goodman and Metcalfe that I seriously wondered about. The other cast members don't seem to have worked much in the entertainment industry since the original Roseanne - can't really blame them for jumping at the reboot. The others though, I just don't know what they were seeing beside $$ signs.
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Like I said, not blaming her. Everyone makes mistakes. I just hope she will say more than just I'm not involved. ABC should too. They should at least admit they should have seen this coming if they can't say We messed up.
Also, I only mentioned her because she had the good sense to call it before the others. I don't know what to say about Goodman and the rest. I like a lot of them too and still do. I just think they should have known better. ETA Of course maybe some needed the work. I can't really criticise them if they needed to take the risk. Last edited by ganzfeld; 29 May 2018 at 11:38 PM. |
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I wonder if this is going to have any affect on the attempt to reboot Last Man Standing.
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I know Allen is a Trump supporter but is he also a racist conspiracy theorist? Roseanne didn't get her show cancelled because of her politics (and neither did Allen).
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I'm not exactly knowledgeable about what Tim Allen has been up to after about 1999, but a quick perusal of his Twitter account doesn't show any senile racist stream of consciousness like Roseanne or Trump. I'm guessing that he has a social media manager writing it with minimal input from him. If he's just a run-of-the-mill Trump supporter who makes a modest effort to be subtle about his racism then his sitcom shouldn't be in danger.
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It got canned the first time after he compared being a conservative in Hollywood to being a Jew in 1930s Germany. The success of the Roseanne reboot was, IIRC, the main reason there was any talk of bringing it back. So it just made me wonder if there was going to be a backlash against conservative-themed sitcoms in general.
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With regard to conservative-themed sitcoms - are there any? Serious question. I can't think of one offhand but I'm not the best go to person for current TV programming! |
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Blue Bloods is very catering to a conservative, white audience. I don't think I would say it's dog whistle-y necessarily, but the plot lines definitely follow what privileged white people think life is like and makes them feel warm and fuzzy about the world and what is "fair and right."
Here is an article that talks about it and gives examples. And it's not really a bad show in terms of how it's produced and watchability, but if you watch a bunch of them you start to see a theme and it feels icky. IMO, anyways. And Wahlberg is a ******, imo, so that's always a red flag for me, too. People change, but he did some pretty horrific things as a teenager and I haven't seen him do a hell of a lot of altruistic things since then. |
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There are a few shows that skew conservative, but most of them aren't comedies. |
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