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Honestly, the minute I heard that Roseanne Connor would be coming out as a Trump supporter, I knew the whole damn thing was doomed. Regardless of Roseanne Barr's actual feelings on the subject, Roseanne Connor would never -- NEVER -- have voted for Trump; and as Douglas Marland would say, "When they say 'He/she wouldn't do that,' you've failed."

If that's true, then shame on them. Nine years' worth of history should have told them that controlling anything connected to Roseanne was a dicey proposition (at best).

I'd feel sorry, too, except I ALSO feel they knew who she was when they agreed to come back or work with her. I mean, forget about today. Why would anyone sane want to work with Roseanne after all the backstage drama that had transpired during the original series? It just never made any sense to me. For one thing, if they had kept the show on the air, advertisers would have felt the pressure to pull their ads, resulting in lost revenue.

More: http://deadline.com/2018/05/roseanne-canceled-barr-abc-racist-tweets-1202399123/

Then, in a later episode, the Connor family home burns down, and with it goes all of Roseanne's pictures, lol. Ironically, when the original series was in its' first or second season, and ABC was at their proverbial wits' end with her, they floated a similar idea (killing off Roseanne Connor) to John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf, with the idea of retooling the show around Dan, who would have become a single parent, struggling to raise the kids on his own, with help from Jackie. Goodman and Metcalf, however, stood by Roseanne, so the network backed off. Meanwhile... https://twitter.com/THEsaragilbert/status/1001513801546530816 People are starting to go in on the rest of the cast, saying that their silence equates with complicity. Boom. http://tvline.com/2018/05/29/roseanne-cancelled-season-11-racist-tweet-controversy-abc/

Me neither. Of course, if they DO cancel, I'll applaud. But, no, I don't believe they will cancel it either.

Excellent point!

No doubt, her supporters/defenders will argue that she has apologized and that the rest of us should just "move on." Unfortunately, it seems as if no one believes anymore in the concept that "saying you're sorry doesn't always make everything all better" and that there have to be consequences (no matter how severe) for one's words and actions.

Frankly, I would take the risk, too. Just shut down the revival, eat the costs, and move on. Otherwise, how is it going to look to have someone on your network who compared an AA woman to an ape? Viewers just might try to boycott.

Oh, really? Well, then, I stand corrected! But seriously. I lost patience with Roseanne's antics a long time ago, so there was no way in Hell I was going to watch the revival. I'm just glad that her comment finally proves what I've always suspected about the woman, despite her insistence to the contrary.

Wanda Sykes' decision probably had nothing to do with Roseanne's comment about Valerie Jarrett. Nevertheless, I say, good for her!

I wonder that as well. If I were watching the new episodes, this would be enough for me to stop.

I'd laugh if it weren't so damn serious.

No, he hadn't. Wisner Washam wrote a spec script for ANOTHER WORLD, but Robert Cenedella was HW at that point; and according to Washam himself, Cenedella didn't hire him, because he had enough writers. That's when his wife suggested showing his script to Nixon.

Yep. Man, I wish they had never written off Joyce. I, for one, would have LOVED to have seen her in the '80's and '90's.

I really love Denise Alexander and Lesley in those scenes. As Lesley, she refuses to collapse under the weight of her nemesis, Monica's, venomous insults. She won't give her that satisfaction. It's good (and rare these days) to see a female stand up for herself in that fashion.

I think I've said this before, but I've often wished GL had asked Lynne Adams to make a brief return as Leslie's ghost, possibly to help her son, "Freddy," through some crisis in his personal or professional life.

I believe it was the former.

Yeah, I read once that Bill Bell fought for a long time against killing off Lauren's supposed baby boy, Dylan, on Y&R, because putting Susan Martin through a similar ordeal was too gut-wrenching for him as a writer. In the end, though, he went ahead with the story, because he felt the impact and fallout from Dylan's death was just too important to Lauren, Scott and Sheila.

It IS amazing when you think about all the great stories of that era from so many shows -- not just from the ones you've listed, vetsoapfan, but ATWT, OLTL, GL, Y&R, RYAN'S HOPE.... Even GH had a few good ones despite being, from all accounts, in a major, critical slump in the mid-'70's.

I'd love to see more of Morgan's work on SFT, too. From what I've read, Jennifer, and Morgan, brought a lot of mainstream attention to SFT and daytime.

Truth.

I'm really starting to believe that the best way to handle Trump and his followers is not to debunk their ridiculous claims, but to contain them. Just...you know...circle around them and cut off their bloodlines as best as possible. Because, as we've said before on NUMEROUS occasions, the facts no longer matter to these people. They know what they know and they're comfortable with that.

As the saying goes, one man's normal is another man's WTF'ery.