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I hope Wanda Sykes will agree to return, along with the existing writers past and present.

The Deadline version of basically the same info suggests all of the cast would be back and are willing, which would be good. The THR version says the writers (Bruce Helford, etc.) would most likely all return.

Links, people.

GL's Murray Bartlett (Cyrus) and Orlagh Cassidy (Doris Wolfe) are in a new thriller, Beach House.

I think Roman may be right.

I assume that no matter what, they'd have to pay her off at the beginning.

She's falling apart:

Despite a regular barrage of tweets since her firing, Barr has not given an in-depth interview on the subject. https://t.co/qRQ8o5n9Ms

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 2, 2018

Meanwhile:
 

Today I poured myself into my team of girls. When I struggle most I pour myself into helping others pic.twitter.com/83Vd9wNkPu

— Michael Fishman (@ReelMFishman) June 3, 2018

Deadline seems to think it may actually happen:

‘Roseanne’ Followup Without Roseanne Barr Inches Forward, Hurdles Remain https://t.co/jM3Pm89HWD pic.twitter.com/tjp36ymfxz

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) June 2, 2018

Erika Slezak will apparently be appearing in the film version of Jeff Daniels' play Guest Artist.

I think Wayans is actually diabetic which would explain the food. But the killer quote about him is at the end of the article. They both sound like huge issues, but Crawford definitely had to go. I'd just scrap it.

Deep coverage complete with recordings:

Inside the disturbing on-set fights between #LethalWeapon stars Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans that nearly killed the Fox series https://t.co/wfO9JOS2Ay pic.twitter.com/j25gDygJ8g

— Variety (@Variety) June 2, 2018

Both actors sound like complete nightmares, but only one (Crawford) was outright nuts. FOX probably would've been better off cancelling, IMO. I can't see Wayans' work ethic improving after decades in the business when he's apparently just cashing the check here.

This is not new news just because TMZ reported it; we linked articles about it on previous pages. And yes, it's doable - if the cast agrees.

She was pushed out of OLTL by Jill Farren Phelps.

Roseanne Barr on her post-tweet conversation with ABC's Ben Sherwood: "He said: what were you thinking when you did this?" https://t.co/HLTZ2bW67V

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 1, 2018

It's not that I disagree with Bee. It's that at this point, crass performative shít like that doesn't solve anything or further any goal - it just makes everyone look fúckin' crazy. Which gives the Beltway press even more ammo to throw up their hands, chalk everything up to the crazy times and bemoan 'the lack of civil discourse on both sides'* instead of consistently being confronted with the real issue, which is first and last the GOP and Donald Trump and their insane voter base. We can be loud and angry but it has to have substance and action behind it. To me, calling the president's daughter a c**t on TV just gives them an excuse to martyr her and confuse the issue, like the Beltway's brief, failed attempt to make everyone feel bad for Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Whedon probably should be quiet, but he's right about Ivanka. Except no, "libs" did not create her sympathetic narrative. Ivanka tried to do that herself and it's failing more every day.

(* - which is something we actually do need back badly, but not for the Beltway's reasons)

I've said this before, but the Johnny Jewel (from Chromatics) album of music for Season 3 (Themes for Television) is stunningly good. Evocative of Angelo Badalamenti's work but new as well. Pieces of it were used in the shadow (Windswept, Shadow, Saturday) but not much. I'm happy with the music mix as is given Lynch's love of silence and tonal sound, but I do wonder what it'd be like to have had it actively scored with more of this.

Here's a playlist:

I like Samantha Bee a lot but I thought I was in some sort of bizarre dream state when I saw that bit. "Did she just do that on TBS??"

I feel similarly about Ivanka Trump, don't get me wrong - but it's just not the look you want to lead with a day after Roseannegate. They are different words, but the way it will be handled is obvious. It was totally unnecessary and changes the media cycle, and allows the media to try to gun for Beltway Both Sides (I think some in the media may play that card in the neverending quest for 'balance' - not all). It was a very foolish, unforced error. That said, I like her and I hope she doesn't lose her show.

I've recovered some - not all - of my old fondness for Kathy Griffin because she's been candid about having done stupid shít lately, and has worked hard to talk about substantive stuff recently. That said she also did a very stupid thing. Did she deserve how she got treated? No, but she still kind of invited some of it, if that makes sense. Don't go on TV and caterwaul, "he broke me!" (She admits that was a huge blunder, at least)

More than anything, though, I think the one-two punch of Roseanne/Bee back to back in the same week - ape, c**t - shows just how far we've been divided as a country in the open and to what ludicrous histrionic extremes even public personalities will go to without taking a breath and having any kind of clarity or common sense. Imagine this kind of TV news cycle even two years ago. Just try it. I can't. It's a long, hard way down and we'll have a hell of a time pulling back up.

I didn't get a sense of that here. They had notes, but that's common.

It's Alicia Witt!

Alicia Witt premieres "Younger," and talks future of "Twin Peaks" TV series https://t.co/6R9R9566h8 pic.twitter.com/ooK96KEmoI

— billboard (@billboard) May 31, 2018

A good (and sad) piece.

“The more I think about it, the more I think [the cancellation] is actually in line with what the show promised.”

I talked to a writers’ assistant from Roseanne. https://t.co/iUTGFxcoOe

— Matt Jacobs (@tarantallegra) May 30, 2018

More and more based on stories like these - that she was well-behaved in a vacuum during shooting, before the PR machine revved up again during the airing of Season 10 - I think Tom Arnold may be right: Roseanne's longtime self-destructive impulses kicked in and urged her to, consciously or unconsciously, destroy everything around her before she could be 'taken advantage of' again. The one thing she was always obsessed with during the original run with her endless perfectionism mixed with tyranny.

Go to bed, old woman.

I didn't say I liked him much.

I've always liked Tom Arnold more than I should. Sue me.

BTS on the show: Pride and Brutal Pressure

Can ‘Roseanne’ Continue Without Its Star? “Possible But Not Probable” https://t.co/9dgmOXxV2c pic.twitter.com/iAtsE2b3yZ

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 30, 2018

LOL. I'm pretty sure they'd just hinge the show on Darlene the single mother and Dan, which they were doing with Darlene and her kids a lot anyway.