The highly anticipated Roseanne spin-off, The Conners, premiered last night on ABC to huge numbers. According to Nielsen, 10.5 million people tuned in to see how the Conner family would carry on without their matriarch Roseanne, played by Roseanne Barr. The actress, who led last spring’s Roseanne reboot, found herself in hot water after she…
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Two months ago ABC canceled its reboot of the nineties sitcom Roseanne, following a racist Twitter rant from the show’s star, Roseanne Barr, that compared former Obama administration aide Valerie Jarrett to an ape. Barr eventually apologized for her comments on the podcast Stand Up NY, but in a new video making its internet rounds,…
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Roseanne Barr, who starred in ‘90s sitcom Roseanne and this year’s subsequent, short-lived revival on ABC, has apologized for the racist Twitter rant that eventually lead to the revival’s cancellation. On May 29, she posted a since-deleted tweet that said, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby= vj.” It reportedly referred to…
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The Roseanne revival may have had incredibly high ratings when it debuted, but the show was still cancelled in May after star Roseanne Barr tweeted racist statements about Valerie Jarrett, a former Barack Obama aide. At the time of the cancellation, the president of ABC Entertainment wrote in a statement: “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent,…
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Valerie Jarrett, a former aide to Barack Obama, says ABC made the right decision in canceling its hit revival of Roseanne following a racist Twitter rant against her by its star, Roseanne Barr. In the tweet, which has since been deleted, the comedian specifically said, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”…
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On Tuesday, May 29, ABC made the swift decision to cancel the Roseanne reboot after its star Rosanne Barr went on a racist Twitter rant that compared Valerie Jarrett, a former Barack Obama aide, to an ape. In a statement, Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, wrote, “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent…
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