Report: ABC May Continue “Roseanne” With Show Focused On … Sara Gilbert?

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: HOTAIR

URL: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/01/report-abc-may-continue-roseanne-show-focused-sara-gilbert/




C'mon (SEE SOURCE: http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/01/abc-talking-roseanne-reboot-centered-sara-gilbert-character/ ). This is like dumping the Fonz from “Happy Days” and rebooting it to focus on Potsie.

Darlene is the fourth-most compelling character on the show, tops. I like the idea of keeping “Roseanne” going but only if it’s fundamentally a show about Dan and Jackie moving on from Roseanne’s death. If they go the Darlene route, they’re going to get one season out of it. Although maybe that’s the point: All they’re doing here, perhaps, is giving the cast, crew, and writers the second year of employment they were counting on before Roseanne ripped it out from under them. They’ll do 10 episodes of semi-respectable ratings and then pack it in.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … the powers that be at ABC are exploring the possibility of re-branding the show and focusing on the character Darlene instead of Roseanne.

We’re told Sara’s been calling cast members to gauge their interest in the event ABC gives the reboot the green light. We’re told John Goodman is “very interested.”…

What’s more … ABC is desperately trying to salvage the jobs of those who were affected by its swift decision to cancel the show earlier this week … especially for the writers and crew.

It wouldn’t be surprising if Gilbert were the motive force in trying to keep the show going. Supposedly she was also a prime mover in getting the cast interested in the “Roseanne” reboot to begin with, drawing inspiration from a sketch she and John Goodman did for “The Talk.” Coincidentally or not, she was also the most outspoken cast member in slamming Roseanne for her Valerie Jarrett tweet:

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[goatprairie]

Why don't they just keep Barr in the show and use her as an example of a typical, terrible Trump-Republican racist who earns redemption by getting "woke" and turning into an uber-lib over the course of the show?  Meanwhile, thanks to a new liberal/leftist president (Hillary Sanders?......after Trump is impeached and removed from office)   everybody is put on a government program saving them from the dire poverty living under a free market economy would certainly sentence them to.
All the cast members become transsexuals or homosexuals, and everybody lives happily ever after under their new socialist system.
I'm sure most Hollyweird scriptwriters would like something like that.

[Hoodat]

This is like dumping the Fonz from “Happy Days” and rebooting it to focus on Potsie.

That's hilarious.

[240B]

A dope-smoking, vegan, Lesbian, wacko Trump supporter. Wonderful idea. 5 stars

[Oceander]

For the sake of the rest of the cast and crew, who didn’t necessarily deserve to become unemployed because of Barr’s idiocy, it’s worth a try. 

[Cyber Liberty]

For the sake of the rest of the cast and crew, who didn’t necessarily deserve to become unemployed because of Barr’s idiocy, it’s worth a try.

Apparently that is the purpose of this.  They know it's not likely to last more than a season.  John Goodman says he's interested.

[Oceander]

Apparently that is the purpose of this.  They know it's not likely to last more than a season.  John Goodman says he's interested.

Maybe they’ll rise to the occasion. 

[sneakypete]

SOURCE: HOTAIR

URL: https://hotair.com/archives/2018/06/01/report-abc-may-continue-roseanne-show-focused-sara-gilbert/




C'mon (SEE SOURCE: http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/01/abc-talking-roseanne-reboot-centered-sara-gilbert-character/ ). This is like dumping the Fonz from “Happy Days” and rebooting it to focus on Potsie.

Darlene is the fourth-most compelling character on the show, tops. I like the idea of keeping “Roseanne” going but only if it’s fundamentally a show about Dan and Jackie moving on from Roseanne’s death. If they go the Darlene route, they’re going to get one season out of it. Although maybe that’s the point: All they’re doing here, perhaps, is giving the cast, crew, and writers the second year of employment they were counting on before Roseanne ripped it out from under them. They’ll do 10 episodes of semi-respectable ratings and then pack it in.

It wouldn’t be surprising if Gilbert were the motive force in trying to keep the show going. Supposedly she was also a prime mover in getting the cast interested in the “Roseanne” reboot to begin with, drawing inspiration from a sketch she and John Goodman did for “The Talk.” Coincidentally or not, she was also the most outspoken cast member in slamming Roseanne for her Valerie Jarrett tweet:

(EXCERPT) CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE REST....

Well,Gilbert IS an angry man-hating lesbian,so the execs at ABC pretty much love her,and having her head up the show guarantees leftist viewers.

[Cyber Liberty]

Maybe they’ll rise to the occasion.

It could happen.  Cloris Leachman and Valarie Harper had relatively successful spinoffs after Mary Tyler Moore show.

[rustynail]

Show business.

[goatprairie]

That's hilarious.

I always thought Anson Williams had superstar potential.   
I remember Donny Most, who played Ralph Malph, put out an album after a few years on the show.  The album didn't sell diddly squat. Most angrily blamed the record company for not promoting the record.
Decades later in an interview he said he finally realized that nobody was interested in hearing him sing. But his head was a bit swelled at the time the show was running high.