Roseanne Barr is back, and she has some strong feelings about getting canceled from Hollywood.
The 69-year-old comedian is promoting a new documentary explaining her fall from public favor called &#8220;Roseanne: Kicked Out of Hollywood.” It debuts on <a href="https://www.reelz.com/show/kicked-out-of-hollywood/">Reelz</a> on April 24.
&#8220;Any tweet that was not ‘I love Hillary Clinton,&#8217; I got a call for,&#8221; Barr claimed in the expose, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/roseanne-barr-abc-fired-show-documentary">Fox News</a>.
The “Roseanne” alum also discussed how her family begged her to stop tweeting, but she refused because she loved it too much. 
&#8220;Everyone was begging me to give up my Twitter. Everyone,&#8221; the comedian said. &#8220;My kids were trying to lock me out, but I wouldn&#8217;t because it&#8217;s like I just couldn&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a g**damn American and I&#8217;m not going to do it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m a comic. I&#8217;m a bad girl. I&#8217;m too rock and roll. I&#8217;m going to say f*** it and f*** you until I take my last breath.&#8221;
Barr also addressed the tweet that led to her getting fired. The tweet read, “muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby” and was aimed at former White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
“I shoulda not did it, but by God, I was really pissed that day,” Barr said of the incident. “I did something I wouldn’t do if I hadn’t been on that Ambien. It makes you do a lot of crazy sh**.”
Barr released an apology on Twitter at the time. “I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,” the actress wrote. “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.”
However, her words weren’t enough to keep ABC from canceling “Roseanne” in response to the original comment, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/29/roseanne-apologizes-for-planet-of-the-apes-tweet-about-obama-aide-jarrett.html">CNBC</a>. They called Barr’s “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”
In the new documentary, Barr says she wasn’t given a chance to properly apologize and try to redeem herself. 
&#8220;When they called me up they were like, ‘What possible excuse have you got for why you did this? Why you did such an egregious, unforgivable thing?’ And I said, &#8216;I have no excuse. The only thing is, I thought she was white. And they said nothing back,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;And then I said, ‘Let me go on &#8216;The View&#8217; tomorrow and explain it and apologize. I made a mistake.’&#8221;
Ultimately, Barr sees herself being unfairly targeted for making a mistake.
&#8220;Witch-burning is what it is,&#8221; Barr said of getting fired and canceled. &#8220;Intellectual witch-burning. And arrogance and ignorance. All of the press of the United States, and the world and how they interpreted my tweet without any knowledge of the fact that I was sending it to a journalist in Iran about what was happening to the people in Iran. We were under such terrible censorship and it&#8217;s just terrible and frightening.&#8221;
The documentary includes statements from Mo’Nique, Howie Mandel, and &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; executive producer Allan Stephan, who all insist Barr is not actually racist.

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Donald Trump Jr. called out ABC on Tuesday morning for the different way that it has responded to Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s &#8220;N-word&#8221; scandal vs. how it responded to a controversial tweet from Roseanne Barr when Barr had a show with the network.
Fox News Editor Gregg Re exclusively <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-n-word-snoop-dogg-imitation-george-wallace-comic-podcast">reported</a> on Monday about a Christmas album that Kimmel recorded in 1996 which featured a song where Kimmel impersonated rapper Snoop Dogg and repeatedly used the &#8220;N-word&#8221; throughout the track. Kimmel is also facing renewed pressure over his past blackface skits. ABC did not respond to requests for comment on the matter.
Kimmel announced last week that he was taking a leave of absence from the show so he could &#8220;spend even more time with my family.&#8221;
Trump Jr. called out the network for how it has handled the situation vs. how executives handled the situation with Barr in 2018. ABC needs to either cancel Kimmel&#8217;s show or give Barr her show back, Trump said.
&#8220;I don’t think [Jimmy Kimmel] should be fired for inappropriate jokes, but please remind me, how long did it take for [ABC Network]/[Disney] to cancel [Roseanne Barr]?&#8221; Trump Jr. tweeted.
&#8220;I&#8217;m simply anti-double standards for conservatives [and] libs, so either cancel Kimmel or give Roseanne her show back,&#8221; he added.
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I don’t think <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimmykimmel</a> should be fired for inappropriate jokes, but please remind me, how long did it take for <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABCNetwork</a>/<a href="https://twitter.com/Disney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Disney</a> to cancel <a href="https://twitter.com/therealroseanne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@therealroseanne</a>?
I&#39;m simply anti-double standards for conservatives &amp; libs, so either cancel Kimmel or give Roseanne her show back. <a href="https://t.co/VtQgP7zZqk">https://t.co/VtQgP7zZqk</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1275427289623379968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In May 2018, Barr, who had returned to the network earlier in the year after being gone since the 1990s, had her show &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; canceled within hours of her tweeting something that was controversial.
In reference to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, who is black, Barr wrote that if the “muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”
ABC and Disney executives <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/roseanne-cancellation-racist-tweet-sparks-mixed-reactions/story?id=55511602">instantly</a> took action against Barr, who is a Trump supporter, by canceling her show.
ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey responded by saying, &#8220;Roseanne&#8217;s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.&#8221;
Disney CEO Bob Iger said, &#8220;There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.&#8221;
Disney is the parent company of ABC Entertainment and ABC News.
Trump Jr. called out ABC yesterday after the Fox News report was published, writing on Twitter: &#8220;To be clear, I’m 100% against punishing comedians for jokes, even bad jokes from unfunny hack comedians like Jimmy Kimmel…but according to the left’s own woke rules that [Jimmy Kimmel] wants to force others to live by, it’s hard to see how [ABC Network] allows him to keep his show.&#8221;
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To be clear, I’m 100% against punishing comedians for jokes, even bad jokes from unfunny hack comedians like Jimmy Kimmel…but according to the left’s own woke rules that <a href="https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jimmykimmel</a> wants to force others to live by, it’s hard to see how <a href="https://twitter.com/ABCNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABCNetwork</a> allows him to keep his show. <a href="https://t.co/yYsC065pe1">https://t.co/yYsC065pe1</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1275182463418064896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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What made Kimmel&#8217;s past remarks especially newsworthy was the fact that Kimmel pressed actor Tom Arnold in 2018 to release an &#8220;N-word&#8221; tape on President Donald Trump, which never materialized since there was apparently nothing there.
&#8220;I want to hear this tape! Where is this tape?&#8221; Kimmel asked Arnold. &#8220;You keep saying you will! When? When he&#8217;s retired?&#8221;
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Roseanne Barr has weighed in on a COVID-19 conspiracy theory of her own to add to the legions of COVID-19 conspiracy theories circulating across the web: it&#8217;s all a ploy to kill off baby boomers.
Speaking with comedian Norm Macdonald on his new YouTube series, “Quarantined With Norm Macdonald,” Roseanne Barr laid out her bizarre thesis on massive boomer extinction.
&#8220;Well, you know it&#8217;s all connected in my head, because I&#8217;m on the autism spectrum, so everything has to fit perfectly, or else I&#8217;ll go insane, so I&#8217;m always trying to put things together, but it&#8217;s all interrelated. I think we&#8217;re being forced to evolve,&#8221; Roseanne said at first.
“You know what it is, Norm? I think they&#8217;re just trying to get rid of all my generation,&#8221; Roseanne later added. &#8220;The boomer ladies that, you know, that inherited their, you know, are widows. They inherited the money so they got to go wherever the money is and figure out a way to get it from people.&#8221;
&#8220;Because there&#8217;s so many boomers that have money and do no work,” Macdonald responded. “So if you got them out of society — that would be a good thriller.&#8221;
Barr also said that she was holed up in Hawaii, which she claimed has just one case of coronavirus in complete contradiction of all the available evidence.
&#8220;Although she did not specify which island she was on, the entire state of Hawaii has had much more than one case and has seen four people die due to the coronavirus <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-in-us-state-by-state-breakdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">as of Monday afternoon,&#8221; </a>Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/roseanne-barr-coronavirus-get-rid-generation-planning-lawsuit-cancellation">wrote</a>.
Later in the interview, Roseanne said she is using her time in isolation to conjure up the perfect lawsuit to &#8220;sue everyone&#8221; in Hollywood.
&#8220;Solitude to be able to think about how you’re going to sue everyone on the f***ing – you know, Hollywood,&#8221; Roseanne said. &#8220;I have the time now to research and come up with the perfect lawsuit. The lawsuit I&#8217;m going to wage against Hollywood.&#8221;
When Norm Macdonald asked her to clarify, she reiterated that the lawsuit is against all of Hollywood because all of Hollywood allegedly screwed her over.
&#8220;My situation that happened to me in Hollywood,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m devising the perfect lawsuit and I am so blessed to have that time to sit here and be able to compile my thoughts. You know, be introspective. So I can figure out how to f– over everybody in the f–ing world over there.&#8221;
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Roseanne Barr was ousted from her own sitcom in 2018 over a racially-charged tweet targeting former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, whom she described as a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes.” Roseanne initially claimed she didn’t realize that Jarrett, who was born to parents of African-American and European descent, was black. At one point, she even claimed her tweet <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/roseanne-my-apes-tweet-was-really-about-anti-paul-bois">was about anti-semitism</a>.
“Rod Serling wrote Planet of The Apes,” Roseanne tweeted. “It was about anti-semitism. That is what my tweet referred to – the anti semitism of the Iran deal. Low IQ ppl can think whatever they want.”

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No one understands Cancel Culture’s wrath better than Roseanne Barr.
The woman who helped redefine the modern sitcom with her eponymous show is but a memory in La La Land today.
We all know why. Barr sent out one awful, racially charged Tweet, and her entire legacy got ripped out from under her. It didn’t matter that she gave female comics a valuable role model, or that co-worker Norm Macdonald hailed her <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/why-norm-macdonalds-new-talk-show-wont-target-trump-1141832">willingness to hire people of color</a>.
That one Tweet, for which Barr swiftly apologized, <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/roseanne-tom-arnold-hypocrisy/">canceled both her show and career</a>.
Bette Midler tells Barr to “hold her beer” on a weekly basis.
The Divine Ms. Me’s Twitter account is a veritable hate emporium. She rails against President Donald Trump first and foremost. It’s how she does it, though, that matters. Even Robert De Niro might blush at her venom.
In the past, she’s joked about someone “shiving” President Trump (<a href="https://newsradiowrva.radio.com/blogs/jeff-katz/will-secret-service-investigate-bette-midlers-comments-about-stabbing-president">she later deleted it</a>), and wrote a poem about the Trump family getting hanged for their crimes.
She deleted that, too.
More importantly, her hate spills over into other public figures. She <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/08/24/bette-midler-goes-on-a-vile-unhinged-rant-over-david-kochs-death/">cheered on the death</a> of Libertarian philanthropist David Koch for all to see.
When Texas got hammered by Mother Nature, Midler said the <a href="https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/09/05/no-aid-for-them-bette-midler-says-no-federal-money-for-texas-until-their-attitude-improves-or-something/">state didn’t deserve federal aid</a> due to its cynicism over government spending.
She famously praised the man who broke five of Sen. Rand Paul’s ribs and left the Senator close to a life-threatening condition. Midler <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/bette-midler-deletes-tweet-praising-man-who-assaulted-sen-rand-paul_3127567.html">deleted the message later</a>.
Sense a pattern? There’s another Midler pattern, too. She doesn’t apologize for her horrific statements.
This week, Midler sank to a new low. She turned her Twitter fire on conservative icon Rush Limbaugh, recently diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Some prominent liberals, like Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, put down their ideological hammers and wished Limbaugh a speedy recovery.
Not Midler. She shared this message regarding the radio talker mere days after he went public with his diagnosis:
<blockquote><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RushLimbaugh?src=hashtag_click">#RushLimbaugh</a> doesn&#8217;t have lung cancer any more than <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MichaelJFox?src=hashtag_click">#MichaelJFox</a> has Parkinson&#8217;s or <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RBG?src=hashtag_click">#RBG</a> had cancer! He said they were both faking. How abut it, Rush? You&#8217;re faking, right? Trying to gin up your press and media attention, right? Exactly like that <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JackassTrump?src=hashtag_click">#JackassTrump</a>!</blockquote>
She also Tweeted this:
<blockquote>Poor Rush. Poor, fat, stupid, sick, hypocritical, drug addicted Rush. Back when he was using, he admitted to taking over 30,000 OxyContin. You know what that means? He’s not just a moron, he’s an Oxymoron!</blockquote>
Barr claimed she didn’t know that the target of her Tweet, former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, is black. She also blamed using the drug Ambien for the Tweet. Her mea culpa was swift and without any strings.
Midler makes no such claims about her targets. Nor does she apologize for the hate she spews on a regular basis.
And why should she?
The media, outside of conservative sites, mostly ignore her rage. Her Hollywood peers apparently don’t care, either. They keep hiring her. She co-stars in the Sundance Film Festival entry “The Glorias,” provided a voice for the recent “The Addams Family” animated film, and contributed to Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “The Politician.”
Team Cancel Culture can’t be bothered to so much as acknowledge her hate, let alone sic the Outrage Mob on her.
Why?
Because Cancel Culture isn’t about being kind to one another. Nor does it genuinely protect people from nasty attacks.
Cancel Culture exists to promote progressive groupthink, smite conservatives whenever possible, and ensure debate is no longer part of the American equation.
None of those goals overlap with Midler’s theatrics, so she gets a pass.
Now, if Midler scorched a liberal icon with similar gusto, that could change things. For now, the Tony winner is free to Tweet to her heart’s content, knowing Cancel Culture will look the other way.

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Roseanne Barr took to her YouTube channel on Saturday to rail against socialist media darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), whom she called a &#8220;dumbass,&#8221; an &#8220;Israel hater,&#8221; and a &#8220;Farrakhan-loving &#8230; bug-eyed b****.&#8221;
Barr did not mention Ocasio-Cortez by name but spoke of the author of the Green New Deal, which the freshman Democrat authored.
&#8220;That Green New Deal that that Farrakhan-loving b**** &#8212; I don&#8217;t remember her name. The bug-eyed b**** who looks like a realtor. She got those realtor eyes. I can always tell by realtor eyes. She got &#8217;em. Bug-eyed lyin&#8217; b****. Farrakhan fan Israel-hater. Lefty. Dumbass. Dumbass. Dumb as they get,&#8221; the comedian started the video.
Barr was referring to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who has a history of anti-Semitic remarks such as calling Jews &#8220;<a href="http://twitter.com/LouisFarrakhan/status/1052304476923719680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">termites</a>.&#8221;
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In January, Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/ocasio-cortez-attends-nyc-womens-march-amid-anti-semitism-controversy/">spoke</a> at New York City&#8217;s Women&#8217;s March despite wide backlash over leaders Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18368/7-things-you-need-know-about-womens-march-aaron-bandler">ties to anti-Semitism</a>. Sarsour has praised Farrakhan and appeared onstage with Rev. Jeremiah Wright; Mallory has openly praised Farrakhan, too.
Barr continued: &#8220;So, I&#8217;m gonna try to correct some of the mistakes she&#8217;s made, like costing hundreds of people decent-paying jobs &#8217;cause, I don&#8217;t know, they breathe carbon in the air or some horses***.&#8221;
&#8220;She got paid to do that. Can you imagine?&#8221; asked Barr. &#8220;Paid to decimate communities. But that&#8217;s what the [Democrats] have been doing. That&#8217;s that socialism does.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve just got to say it: Socialism is a fake f***ing con,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just like capitalism but it comes from the bottom-up, not the top-down. It&#8217;s a f***ing ponzi scheme and a con game.&#8221;
Barr then took on what she said was Democrats&#8217; real motives for open borders. &#8220;Here&#8217;s why they want them immigrants: First of all, because all their buddies are hiring them for less than minimum wage. That&#8217;s a big draw. And second, because no Americans are gonna vote for their ass anymore because we woke up to the s*** you&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
&#8220;You see, you&#8217;re decimating whole communities in inner-cities while you&#8217;re up there in a vineyard and a mansion. Okay, that&#8217;s what socialism gets us. Well we don&#8217;t want none of that s***. We don&#8217;t want what you did in Venezuela,&#8221; she concluded.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/roseanne-barr-calls-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-a-farrakhan-lovingbug-eyed-b-h">noted</a> by Fox news, &#8220;Barr received major backlash in May for her tweet about former President Obama&#8217;s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, who she described as if the &#8216;Muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby.'&#8221;
In an apology video, Barr addressed Jarrett directly. &#8220;If she&#8217;s watching, I&#8217;m so sorry that you thought I was racist and that you thought my tweet was racist,&#8221; the comedian said, <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/07/roseanne-barr-valerie-jarrett-sean-hannity-misunderstood-tweet-get-new-hairstyle-abc-fired-video-1202434700/">according</a> to Deadline. &#8220;Because it wasn&#8217;t. It was political. I&#8217;m sorry for the misunderstand that caused, my ill-worded tweet. And, you know, I&#8217;m sorry that you feel harmed and hurt. I never meant that. And for that I apologize.&#8221;
&#8220;I never meant to hurt anybody or say anything about an entire race of people, which I think 30 years of my work can attest to,&#8221; Barr added.
&#8220;Roseanne,&#8221; which was bringing in high viewership, was cancelled by ABC. They created a spinoff with the cast sans Barr called &#8220;The Conners.&#8221;
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Whatever trace that remained of the MAGA hat-wearing Roseanne has officially been jettisoned on the TV spinoff &#8220;The Conners.&#8221; This week, the show openly shilled for illegal immigration.
On Tuesday&#8217;s season finale episode, &#8220;We Continue to Truck,&#8221; the plot centered around the character Beck (Lecy Goranson) and her pregnancy at the hands of a busboy at the restaurant where she works who&#8217;s here in the United States illegally. <a href="http://What about the other victims? They&#8217;re &#8220;just trying to have a good life,&#8221; as well. But you won&#8217;t see any sympathy for them in Hollywood. You won&#8217;t see the brutal murders and sexual assaults. All you&#8217;ll see are manufactured sob stories geared to drum up sympathy for the lawbreakers. Stories that don&#8217;t accurately reflect the dangers posed by illegal immigration. Those dangers are why we have a system in place to help good people who aren&#8217;t lawbreakers enter this country the right way. Legally. It&#8217;s a simple solution that prevents scenarios like the one shown on The Conners. So why is the left so opposed to it?">Newsbusters</a> has more:
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At first, [Becky] wasn&#8217;t even sure if she wanted a family with Emilio (Rene Rosado) or if she had feelings for him. But in just a few episodes, they&#8217;re happily in love and everything is falling perfectly into place.
Becky had been struggling to make it on her own, but now she&#8217;s so much better off with Emilio that she&#8217;s replacing the snack foods that she stole from her dad&#8217;s house with money Emilio gave to her. They&#8217;re both happy about their future together and they share a sweet kiss in a snow-covered park as they talk about becoming a family.
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Throughout the season, Dan (John Goodman), slowly warms up to the idea of his daughter dating an illegal immigrant and even offers him contracting work with his company. In the finale episode, however, he comes home to inform Becky that Emilio may have been deported due to an ICE raid downtown. As the two characters argue, Becky denounces the ICE raids as &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; because illegal immigrants are &#8220;just trying to have a better life.&#8221; Transcript:
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Dan: Becky, has Emilio called you?
Becky: No. I got a message from a number I don&#8217;t recognize.
Dan: Check it. I heard there was a big ICE raid downtown, and they hit the restaurants.
Darlene: Oh, my &#8212; this is ridiculous. These people are just trying to have a better life.
Dan: He was here illegally, Darlene.
Darlene: Oh, so you don&#8217;t have a problem with what&#8217;s happening?
Dan: I have a big problem. I like the guy, my daughter&#8217;s about to have his baby, and he may be getting dragged out of the country. You think I want that? Damn it. It&#8217;s Emilio, right?
Emilio: &#8230;taking me to Texas and then turning me over to authorities in Juárez. I will find a way back to you and our baby after a short time in Chihuahua.
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Roseanne Barr was ousted from her own sitcom last year due to a racially-charged tweet targeting former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, whom she described as a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and &#8220;Planet of the Apes.&#8221; Roseanne initially claimed she didn&#8217;t realize that Jarrett, who was born to parents of African-American and European descent, was black.
Speaking with USA Today <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37354/john-goodman-show-has-hollow-center-without-paul-bois">at the time</a> of &#8220;The Conners&#8221; launch, Goodman said the show has a &#8220;hollow center&#8221; without Roseanne.
&#8220;It felt great to be back, but there&#8217;s a hollow center. I miss Rosie real bad,&#8221; said Goodman.
While Roseanne&#8217;s tweet was racially charged, Goodman also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35107/john-goodman-breaks-silence-hints-roseanne-conners-paul-bois">said</a> he knows that his former co-star is not a racist person.
&#8220;I know for a fact that she&#8217;s not a racist,&#8221; he said, going on to imply that ABC should not have canceled her show so suddenly. &#8220;I&#8217;ll put it this way, I was surprised at the response. And that&#8217;s probably all I should say about it.&#8221;
ABC decided to kill off Roseanne&#8217;s character on the show via an opioid overdose.

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Rumors began circulating online this week that the Roseanne Barr-less reboot of the &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; reboot was likely going to be cancelled after just 11 episodes, but the reality is that ABC has given no word on what it plans to do with &#8220;The Conners.&#8221;
The rumor got going in part from a comment by ShowBiz411 about ABC suspiciously ordering just one more episode in addition to the first run of ten.
&#8220;ABC has ordered 1 extra episode to the original order of 10,&#8221; noted <a href="https://www.showbiz411.com/2018/10/31/ratings-the-conners-beaten-by-everything-drops-in-total-viewers-and-demo-as-abc-orders-only-1-more-episode">Roger Friedman</a>. &#8220;Sounds to me like a finale,&#8221; he speculated, then joked: &#8220;Someone wakes up and says they dreamt Roseanne died. There&#8217;s a cackle from the next room. Fade to black.&#8221;
Friedman&#8217;s suggestion followed his breakdown of &#8220;The Conners&#8221; ratings thus far, which he suggested are trending down in problematic fashion. The show &#8220;dropped in everything last night&#8211;total viewers, key demo,&#8221; he wrote. Its big Halloween episode was &#8220;beaten by everything- &#8216;NCIS,&#8217; &#8216;The Voice,&#8217; etc.&#8221; while the show lost ground in the key demo and total viewers, which were &#8220;down by 180K.&#8221;
Friedman also noted just how costly the cast of the show is for ABC. According to Variety&#8217;s numbers, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, and Sara Gilbert are each paid $375,000 per episode. Add the salaries of the other key cast members and you&#8217;re talking big money.
<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/conners-is-us-tv-ratings-tuesday-oct-30-2018-1156712">The Hollywood Reporter</a> had a different take on the show&#8217;s ratings, which it noted &#8220;improved a little&#8221; over the last week (numbers likely impacted by the World Series) and fared pretty well against the competition. But as <a href="https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2018/10/31/ratings-the-conners-halloween-episode-tops-the-voice-knockouts-in-key-demo/23577160/">The Wrap</a>&#8216;s breakdown shows, Friedman is correct about &#8220;The Conners&#8221; losing out to most of the competition in its time slot.
While the Roseanne-free show drew 7.7 million viewers for ABC, &#8220;The Voice&#8221; drew 8.8 million for NBC, and &#8220;NCIS&#8221; drew 12.1 million over at CBS. &#8220;The Gifted&#8221; drew just 2 million for Fox.
Overall, NBC won the ratings war Tuesday night &#8220;with a 1.7 rating/7 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total viewers with an average of 8.1 million, according to preliminary numbers,&#8221; The Wrap reports. CBS and ABC tied in the ratings (1.1/5), but CBS beat out ABC significantly in total viewers, 9.7 million compared to ABC&#8217;s 4.9 million. Fox came in a distant fourth, with a 0.6/3 and with 2.4 million viewers.
As The <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/37243/while-foxs-last-man-standing-outperforms-abcs-james-barrett">Daily Wire</a> reported, &#8220;The Conners&#8221; premiere only managed about half of the total viewers of the premiere of &#8220;Roseanne&#8221;:
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&#8220;Roseanne,&#8221; starring the pro-Trump Roseanne Barr, shocked the television world back in March by earning a stunning 18.2 million viewers (5.1 rating in the key demo) in its debut. Before the show came to a screeching halt after Barr infamously tweeted that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was the love child of the Muslim Brotherhood and &#8220;Planet of the Apes,&#8221; viewership had tapered off to a still solid 10.3 million (2.4 rating).
&#8220;The Conners&#8221; opened Tuesday at about where &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; left off. &#8220;The debut airing delivered 10.5 million viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49,&#8221; Entertainment Weekly&#8217;s James Hibberd <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/17/conners-ratings-vs-roseanne/">reports</a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s down 55 percent from the premiere of Roseanne last spring, but was on par with Roseanne&#8216;s finale and even managed to edge out NBC&#8217;s This Is Us for the night.&#8221;
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37243/while-foxs-last-man-standing-outperforms-abcs-james-barrett">While Fox&#8217;s &#8216;Last Man Standing&#8217; Dominates Friday Night Ratings, ABC&#8217;s &#8216;The Conners&#8217; Premiere Can&#8217;t Live Up To &#8216;Roseanne&#8217;</a>

Is Roseanne-Less ‘Conners’ Being Cancelled?

ABC&#8217;s golden goose that was &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; has quickly become a sterile cow without its title character. Coming into week 2 of the show&#8217;s spinoff, &#8220;The Conners,&#8221; the ratings have taken a massive nosedive with no sign of stopping.
According to <a href="http://The CW&#8217;s The Flash (0.7, 1.8 million) also was steady in the demo while adding a few eyeballs, and Black Lightning (0.4, 1.2 million) ticked up to match its season premiere demo rating and log its largest L+SD audience for the season.">Deadline</a>, the spinoff sitcom &#8220;was down 29% in 18-49 (-26% from the fast national) and down 26% in viewers from the premiere.&#8221;
By contrast, the &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; reboot dropped only 25% in the 18-49 graphic and just 16% in viewers in week 2 following its major debut at number one this past spring. If &#8220;The Conners&#8221; does not reverse the downward spiral, it will inevitably face cancellation.
The effect that Roseanne Barr&#8217;s absence has had on the show cannot be understated and has been felt ever since &#8220;The Conners&#8221; premiered last week.
&#8220;The debut airing delivered 10.5 million viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49,&#8221; Entertainment Weekly&#8217;s James Hibberd <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/17/conners-ratings-vs-roseanne/">reported</a> following &#8220;The Conners&#8221; premiere. &#8220;That&#8217;s down 55 percent from the premiere of Roseanne last spring, but was on par with Roseanne&#8216;s finale and even managed to edge out NBC&#8217;s &#8216;This Is Us&#8217; for the night.&#8221;
On the flipside, the openly conservative &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; came back to FOX and flew high at number one. From <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/last-man-standing-ratings-fox-1202962065/">Variety</a>:
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&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; debuted its seventh season on Fox Friday night, with the Tim Allen-led sitcom rocketing past its previous season numbers on ABC.
&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; averaged a 1.8 rating in adults 18-49 and 8 million viewers, airing at 8 p.m. By comparison, the Season 6 premiere on ABC drew a 1.1 rating and 6 million viewers, while that season as a whole averaged a 1.2 rating and 6.4 million viewers. In fact, the last time the series drew over 8 million viewers was back in its fourth season, and the last time it drew a 1.8 rating or better was in Season 2. It was also Fox&#8217;s most watched comedy on any night in nearly seven years, excluding NFL nights, and was by far the top-rated show of Friday night.
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Roseanne Barr was ousted from her own sitcom earlier this year due to a racially-charged tweet targeting former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, whom she described as a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and &#8220;Planet of the Apes.&#8221; Roseanne initially claimed she didn&#8217;t realize that Jarrett, who was born to parents of African-American and European descent, was black.
&#8220;The Conners&#8221; wrote Roseanne&#8217;s character out by saying she died of an opioid overdose, a decision that the actress expressed much dissatisfaction about in a <a href="https://www.mrctv.org/blog/conners-premiere-ratings-way-down-roseanne-premiere">statement</a> on Twitter. &#8220;That it was done through an opioid overdose lent an unnecessary grim and morbid dimension to an otherwise happy family show,&#8221; she wrote.
Her co-star, John Goodman, has said the show has become a &#8220;hollow center&#8221; without her on it. &#8220;It felt great to be back, but there&#8217;s a hollow center. I miss Rosie real bad,&#8221; Goodman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37354/john-goodman-show-has-hollow-center-without-paul-bois">told </a>USA Today.
It appears that audiences feel the same.

‘The Conners’ Sans Roseanne Bombs In Week 2 Of Ratings

In an <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2018/10/15/roseanne-spinoff-theconners-premieres-without-roseanne-barr/1607154002/">interview</a> with USA Today this week, John Goodman said he misses his friend &#8220;Rosie real bad&#8221; despite being happy to return in &#8220;The Conners.&#8221;
&#8220;It felt great to be back, but there&#8217;s a hollow center. I miss Rosie real bad,&#8221; said Goodman.
Roseanne Barr was ousted from her own sitcom earlier this year due to a racially charged tweet targeting former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, whom she described as a cross between the Muslim Brotherhood and &#8220;Planet of the Apes.&#8221; Roseanne initially claimed she didn&#8217;t realize that Jarrett, who was born to parents of African-American and European descent, was black. While the tweet was racially charged, Goodman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35107/john-goodman-breaks-silence-hints-roseanne-conners-paul-bois">recently said</a> he knows that Roseanne is not a racist person.
&#8220;I know for a fact that she&#8217;s not a racist,&#8221; he said, going on to imply that ABC should not have canceled her show so suddenly. &#8220;I&#8217;ll put it this way, I was surprised at the response. And that&#8217;s probably all I should say about it.&#8221;
ABC decided to kill off Roseanne&#8217;s character on the show via an opioid overdose, a decision that the actress expressed much dissatisfaction about in a <a href="https://www.mrctv.org/blog/conners-premiere-ratings-way-down-roseanne-premiere">statement</a> on Twitter Tuesday night.
&#8220;That it was done through an opioid overdose lent an unnecessary grim and morbid dimension to an otherwise happy family show,&#8221; she wrote.
Keeping it cheeky, Roseanne emphatically announced, &#8220;I ain&#8217;t dead, bitches!!!&#8221;
As noted by the <a href="https://www.mrctv.org/blog/goodman-roseanne-spinoff-theres-hollow-center-without-barr">MRC</a>, &#8220;The Conners&#8221; premiered to &#8220;lackluster ratings&#8221; when compared to the blowout the &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; premiere received, which drew &#8220;18.44 million viewers and had a 5.1 rating among adults 18-49.&#8221;
&#8220;The Conners&#8221; <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/17/conners-ratings-vs-roseanne/">drew just 10.5 million viewers and had a 2.3 rating</a>, managing about 55% of its precursor&#8217;s premiere.

John Goodman: The Show Has A ‘Hollow Center’ Without Roseanne

While the ABC-dropped &#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; continues to rule the Friday night ratings battle over at Fox, the premiere of ABC&#8217;s Roseanne-free spinoff of &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; aired Tuesday night and barely managed to attain half the record-setting opening of its precursor.
&#8220;Roseanne,&#8221; starring the pro-Trump Roseanne Barr, shocked the television world back in March by earning a stunning 18.2 million viewers (5.1 rating in the key demo) in its debut. Before the show came to a screeching halt after Barr infamously tweeted that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was the love child of the Muslim Brotherhood and &#8220;Planet of the Apes,&#8221; viewership had tapered off to a still solid 10.3 million (2.4 rating).
&#8220;The Conners&#8221; opened Tuesday at about where &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; left off. &#8220;The debut airing delivered 10.5 million viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49,&#8221; Entertainment Weekly&#8217;s James Hibberd <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/17/conners-ratings-vs-roseanne/">reports</a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s down 55 percent from the premiere of Roseanne last spring, but was on par with Roseanne&#8216;s finale and even managed to edge out NBC&#8217;s This Is Us for the night.&#8221;
The spin-off&#8217;s numbers roughly meet the expectations of marketing analysts, who found that interest in the Roseanne-less show was tracking at roughly half the viewership of the original, Hibberd notes.
Meanwhile, the Fox reboot of the widely popular show that ABC inexplicably dropped last year, &#8220;Last Man Standing,&#8221; starring conservative Tim Allen, has dominated the competition on Friday nights, averaging 8 million viewers and a 1.8 rating in its premiere. <a href="https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/last-man-standing-ratings-fox-1202962065/">Variety</a> reports:
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&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; debuted its seventh season on Fox Friday night, with the Tim Allen-led sitcom rocketing past its previous season numbers on ABC.
&#8220;Last Man Standing&#8221; averaged a 1.8 rating in adults 18-49 and 8 million viewers, airing at 8 p.m. By comparison, the Season 6 premiere on ABC drew a 1.1 rating and 6 million viewers, while that season as a whole averaged a 1.2 rating and 6.4 million viewers. In fact, the last time the series drew over 8 million viewers was back in its fourth season, and the last time it drew a 1.8 rating or better was in Season 2. It was also Fox&#8217;s most watched comedy on any night in nearly seven years, excluding NFL nights, and was by far the top-rated show of Friday night.
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Hibberd notes that ABC has slipped in the overall ratings this season, falling to fourth place behind Fox, &#8220;even if you take the sports coverage that boosts ABC&#8217;s rivals out of the equation.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/33683/wild-interview-roseanne-tells-hannity-what-shed-james-barrett">In Wild Interview, Roseanne Tells Hannity What She&#8217;d Say To Valerie Jarrett</a>

While Fox’s ‘Last Man Standing’ Dominates Friday Night Ratings, ABC’s ‘The Conners’ Premiere Can’t Live Up To ‘Roseanne’

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Two senior-level ABC executives recently said in an interview that they regret firing Roseanne Barr after she made controversial comments in a tweet about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett.
The two executives, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6261259/ABC-fears-Conners-flop-without-Roseanne-Barr.html">Daily Mail</a> last week that firing Barr &#8220;was a &#8216;knee-jerk&#8217; reaction by ABC&#8217;s president and admitted that temporarily suspending Barr may have been a wiser decision.&#8221;
Barr&#8217;s show was canceled after she wrote about Jarrett on Twitter: &#8220;muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby= vj.&#8221;
&#8220;We didn&#8217;t think it through properly,&#8221; one executive said. &#8220;What Roseanne did was wrong but we shouldn&#8217;t have rushed to fire her. It was almost a knee-jerk reaction by Ben [Sherwood] and Channing [Dungey] who should have launched an investigation.&#8221;
&#8220;This would have given them more time to listen to the public, advertisers and cast members to determine the best decision,&#8221; the executive continued.
ABC reportedly fears that the show&#8217;s replacement, &#8220;The Conners,&#8221; will be a ratings disaster because Barr&#8217;s fan base will not watch &#8220;out of loyalty to the actress.&#8221;
&#8220;They could&#8217;ve suspended her from the first few episodes without pay and had her return later on in the season,&#8221; another source told the Daily Mail. &#8220;I mean the season finale saw Roseanne going to the hospital for knee surgery. While they worked out her fate, her character could have faced serious complications and fought for her life, while simultaneously making Roseanne fight for her career with a national apology tour.&#8221;
&#8220;The morning the racist tweet scandal blew up, Roseanne offered to publicly apologize and do the rounds of every show but Ben and Channing weren&#8217;t having any of that and wanted her gone,&#8221; the second source continued. &#8220;Why not have her front a PSA for the network on racism and cyberbullying? Roseanne kept saying on the call before she was fired, &#8216;What can I do? What can I do?&#8217; Fans of her show have watched her character confront prejudice and racism &#8212; we could&#8217;ve made this a storyline for her to save the show and redeem her publicly.&#8221;

ABC Executives Having Second Thoughts About Firing Roseanne

Boy, ABC really wants Roseanne Barr dead &#8212; figuratively speaking.
Barr was fired by the network in May and her hit show &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; abruptly canceled after she posted a racist tweet on Twitter in which she said Valerie Jarrett, a former aide to President Barack Obama, looks as if the &#8220;Muslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby.&#8221;
After the show&#8217;s demise, talk began about a spinoff show starring the entire cast, minus Barr, featuring her family and titled &#8220;The Conners.&#8221;
Now, Barr has revealed how her character disappears. She told Brandon Straka on his YouTube show &#8220;Walk Away,&#8221; that the writers of &#8220;The Conners&#8221; will have her die by overdosing on opioids.
&#8220;Oh ya, they killed her,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They have her die of an opioid overdose.&#8221;
Barr said she&#8217;s not happy with the way she&#8217;ll be written out of the show.
&#8220;So it wasn&#8217;t enough to just do what they did to me. They had to so cruelly insult the people who loved that family and that show,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They had to cruelly insult them, and that&#8217;s what they chose to do. So there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it. It&#8217;s done. It&#8217;s over. There&#8217;s no fight left.&#8221;
But Barr is resigned to her TV fate. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing I can do about it,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;It&#8217;s done. It&#8217;s over. There&#8217;s no fight left.&#8221;

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