"Roseanne" spin-off "The Conners" without her character: coming soon

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Roseanne-the-performer agreed to stay out of the series, which will save the jobs of over 200 people. Apparently the character of Roseanne Conner will be killed off, which she may not have been expecting.

A late-night comedian named Jimmy Kimmel particularly skewered this development, holding up a banner saying, simply, DAN. (i.e. a spoof of the Roseanne banner).

But the series will be called “The Conners.”

Aside from other issues of characterization – some characters spent most of their time rebelling against Roseanne – I am concerned that it will devolve into a show with the goal of getting Dan and Jackie married off. Ew. I’d sooner watch Dan alone than settling for the consolation prize. (Sorry, actress, you’re quite good; I just don’t care for the character.)

Any thoughts?
 
Good for Sara Gilbert. She worked her tail off to revive Roseanne in the first place only to have it shut down so quickly. For her sake, I think this is good. Whether or not the show will be, well… it’s not my thing anyway.
 
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They should have just brought someone else in to play the Roseanne part. It would have given a different spin to the whole project if Scarlett Johansen was cast in the role. Now that Ms. Johansen’s project to play a transexual Pittsburgh massage parlor owner fell through, she should be free for it.
 
I agree this would be a great opportunity for someone else to step in. I don’t think anyone else could be Roseanne Connor, but the husband could certainly meet another similar lady.
I couldn’t care less about watching the show, but I thought it unfair that so many lose their jobs because the star ran her big mouth, which she has been doing for about the last 3 decades anyway.
 
I watched maybe two or three episodes of Roseanne on the vintage MeTV channel. I really like Mama’s Family.
 
I’d let her come back and give her a chance to redeem herself.

But then, I am not a TV executive.
 
I think it will be a great marketing opportunity.

The audience will be perfect for marketing my new product, a beer without foam, bubbles, or hops . . .

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I’ve never cared for that abrasive women or felt any desire to watch her, but the whole thing does sound more like a case of recto-cranial inversion than actual racism.

hawk
 
When she first appeared on the scene in the 80s, she had somewhat of an appeal to the working class, because she reflected day to day life and struggles in a humourous and realistic way. Later on the in the series, she became much more “Hollywood” and it lost its luster. I think the reboot was an attempt to get back some of the old Roseanne series magic, but she imploded, so…
 
I don’t think they should’ve let her go. I’m a huge Roseanne fan and I’ve watched every episode. I think part of the success of the new series was Roseanne herself and not the rest of the connors. I think the new series will flop. Definitely. For one part of the appeal of the show WAS that Roseanne was saying politically incorrect stuff. Without that, it’ll just be another lame sjw show
 
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Nope, she’s racist. If it were the first time she tweeted something like that I might be inclined to agree. Why the network didn’t comb through her tweets and other toxic antics (holding a cookie sheet of burnt gingerbread men while wearing an SS uniform) or if they chose to ignore them I don’t what to say.
 
Agreed…I LOVE the early Seasons of the original show. Seasons 1-4 were just awesome. I can identify with it now as an adult just like I did then as a kid. It was a unique show…2 overweight, blue collar, lower middle class parents struggling to raise their kids. It was a real show…compare it to something like Full House…which (as much as I love it, and as cringe-worthy and saccharin as it was) was completely different…the latter wasn’t realistic at all. I watched it purely as escapism…it was nice to live in a fantasy for a while.

I didn’t really get on board with the reboot…meh…it’s the same with Fuller House…meh…cringe-worthy x10!!! Now there’s a sitcom/family that should have stayed in the 90s!
 
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LittleFlower said:
Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, she said her tweet comparing ex-Obama aide Valerie Jarrett - an African-American - to an ape had “cost her everything”.
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I thought Valerie Jarrett was an Iranian American, not a black woman
 
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(holding a cookie sheet of burnt gingerbread men while wearing an SS uniform)
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???

That’s particularly odd–but she wouldn’t be the first anti-semitic Jew I’ve met . . .

Like I said, though, I’ve ignored and avoided everything about her since first encountering her.

hawk
 
Augustinian said:
People of mine and Ms. Barr’s generation grew up seeing all kinds of entertainers wearing them to make a point, not show support for national socialism.
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Yes, but . . . even someone as dense as me finds an SS pulling charred people-cookies out of an oven a bit suggestive . . . maybe it was different in context (and perhaps in fact could have been done in a way that it was actually mocking the SS and Nazis), but . . .

hawk, who happens to miss the purported racial overtones in about half of the “scandals”
 
I think that people are just a lot more supersensitive nowadays than they were when I was a kid.

And they were even less sensitive in the previous generation. Two Ton Tony Galento was a very popular athlete in the 1940’s, with a mouth and lack of sensitivity that would make Don Rickles look like John Paul II in comparison.

Yet, in spite of that, he was popular and ended up patching up any hard feelings with Joe Louis.
 
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