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ABC has fired Roseanne Barr and canceled “Roseanne” after her hateful, ugly comments on Twitter this morning.
“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 wrote in a statement.
This was a huge move by ABC. Barr is the star and the namesake of the year’s No. 1 TV show. “Roseanne” is a moneymaker for Disney and ABC, and promised to pull tremendous ad dollars in the fall, when it was scheduled to air in the Tuesday 8 p.m. lead-off slot. Now, ABC will have to figure out in the coming weeks what to do with that key time period. (The network had no word yet on what it planned to do.)
For now, all “Roseanne” repeats have been pulled from ABC — including tonight’s episode — and the show has been...
ABC has fired Roseanne Barr and canceled “Roseanne” after her hateful, ugly comments on Twitter this morning.
“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 wrote in a statement.
This was a huge move by ABC. Barr is the star and the namesake of the year’s No. 1 TV show. “Roseanne” is a moneymaker for Disney and ABC, and promised to pull tremendous ad dollars in the fall, when it was scheduled to air in the Tuesday 8 p.m. lead-off slot. Now, ABC will have to figure out in the coming weeks what to do with that key time period. (The network had no word yet on what it planned to do.)
For now, all “Roseanne” repeats have been pulled from ABC — including tonight’s episode — and the show has been...
- 5/29/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
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