Channing Dungey is getting a lot of praise, but I bet she is STRESSED at having to make major changes to the fall schedule without any series that would really pop for advertisers. I don’t envy her one bit at the moment.

11 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Channing Dungey is getting a lot of praise, but I bet she is STRESSED at having to make major changes to the fall schedule without any series that would really pop for advertisers. I don’t envy her one bit at the moment.

Please. 

 

Don’t sympathize with these suits. They are cunning. 

Edited May 30, 20187 yr by juppiter

She is now blaming Ambien. She appears to have downshifted in mood and is suddenly retweeting rebuttals of all her horrible whatabout tweets quoted above (not that that excuses a thing). Granted, we've been saying it for like thirty years but this woman needs serious help.

 

 

Here's @therealroseanne's apology. pic.twitter.com/YWZ6i6WWq7

— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) May 30, 2018

Of course, these things become your values when you let them. And she has done that many times in recent years.

Edited May 30, 20187 yr by Vee

I have to wonder if Whitney Cummings saw the writing on the wall and she opted not to return for reasons other then being too busy with her other venues?  

 

 

3 minutes ago, Vee said:

She is now blaming Ambien.

What I really find odd about this is she doesn't mention the fact that she had a traumatic brain injury. It's not an excuse, but I would bet $1,000 it's part of the problem along with her other documented mental illnesses. She clearly has poor impulse control.

 

Does she deserve a show or a platform?  Hell no. I'm ashamed I watched as much as I did, knowing as much as I did about her past.  She may not have been as bad in the 90's, but she did falsely (by her own admission) accuse her parents of incest back then. Hell, maybe that is as bad or maybe these things can't be compared.

Ugh. From a TV Line piece recapping the latest:

 

She also “liked” a supporter’s tweet that called her TV daughter Sara Gilbert a “backstabber” for not coming to her defense.

9 hours ago, Vee said:

She is now blaming Ambien.

 

She would've been better off blaming one of her multiple personalities.

9 hours ago, Juliajms said:

What I really find odd about this is she doesn't mention the fact that she had a traumatic brain injury.

 

That's probably because she has forgotten that she had told that lie once upon a time.

 

Why does it not surprise me that someone would label SG a "backstabber" for not defending Roseanne?  She would've had to have been a moron for defending anyone who'd make such vile statements about other people.  As I see it, though, SG actually did Roseanne a favor by making the revival happen.  Because, before then, what was Roseanne doing with herself besides stirring the pot on social media and having the most tiresome custody disputes with ex-hubby no. 3?  SG owes her nothing.

 

Oh well.  Is Brett Butler available?  Maybe they could revive "Grace Under Fire."  I'm kidding.

Edited May 30, 20187 yr by Khan

5 hours ago, dragonflies said:

I'm not seeing the original Roseanne series listed on my guide for LOGO

 

Maybe they already pulled it. Last time I saw it air was like two weeks ago. But, the bumpers for "Day Camp" still had her in them as of last Friday.  

5 hours ago, Khan said:

 

Hell, bring back "It's a Living"!  We got only one [!@#$%^&*] weekend of that show before they yanked it for "Laverne & Shirley."

 

I didn't know they already pulled it. It'll come back...I hope. 

 

They pulled Too Close For Comfort after like 2 weeks a while ago and now they run it all the time. 

More details on yesterday:

 

 

Roseanne Confessed, Too Late, to ABC After Racist Tweet: 'I Was Stupid' https://t.co/oBLAAOe8tf pic.twitter.com/ChY2PjxTEZ

— TheWrap (@TheWrap) May 30, 2018

After having tweeted a racist remark and then apologizing for it on Tuesday morning, actress Roseanne Barr got on the phone with a group of executives who would decide her fate.

The group included her longtime agent John Burnham, her manager James Moore, Disney-ABC Group President Ben Sherwood and “Roseanne” executive producer Tom Werner.

 

They wanted to know something simple: what was she thinking in comparing former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to the Muslim Brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes” on her Twitter account?

 

Barr admitted that she was wrong. “I was stupid. Ignorant. It was a mistake. I feel terrible,” she told them, according to an individual with knowledge of the call.

 

But Barr did not seem to understand that her fate — or that of her show — hung in the balance. “She did not appreciate the gravity of the situation, for sure,” said the individual, noting that Barr dismissed her own remark as “comedian s—.”

 

Indeed, she seemed to think she could apologize and move on.

 

The ABC executives were hoping that Barr might have some better explanation for what they considered a wholly unacceptable remark — intoxication, a medical problem or maybe even that Russian hackers had taken over her account. Barr has since said that she was “Ambien tweeting” at the time.

 

Because in the absence of that, Disney and ABC executives knew quickly that they were not going to be able to move on from this exchange.

 

The top executives in charge — Sherwood, Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey — awoke Tuesday to learn that in the middle of the night the star of their number one-rated show had gone off on a rant against Chelsea Clinton, journalist Chris Cillizza and — bizarrely — Valerie Jarrett.

 

All agreed that the “Planet of the Apes” tweet was abhorrent, unacceptable. And after the group call with Barr, they circled up and discussed whether there was a punishment that would measure up to the offense, if there were steps Barr or the network could take to move forward.

 

There wasn’t.

 

“It was quite clear, calm, and … not nearly as dramatic as you’d expect,” said an executive with knowledge of the internal decision. “We canceled the number one show on television, but there was no wringing of hands, it was very clear and calm.”

More at the link.

She is now RT'ing even more Valerie Jarrett conspiracy theories along with attacks on the cast - people who have stood by her for decades, people like Sara and Michael who stuck their necks out for her and have always been close to her. I wish I couldn't potentially see this ending one very specific, very sad way.

 

And since we're on SON, OLTL's own chimes in:

 

 

Thinking of production and crew involved.🙏🏽 But so proud of @ABCNetwork for doing the right thing! https://t.co/rLg2SySuzw

— David Fumero (@davidfumero) May 29, 2018

Edited May 30, 20187 yr by Vee

Remember, though, that it's all just "comedian s**t."

Well of course she thought she could "apologize" and move on, ABC has been letting her do that

 

Edited May 30, 20187 yr by dragonflies

11 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Of the cast I feel most sorry for those who hadn't worked a lot since the original show ended. Sometimes it's obvious why, but Lecy Goranson, in the clips I saw, was very good this time around. I hope she gets some work from this and isn't tarnished by Roseanne herself.

 

This is why you can't put Trumpers in positions of responsibility. These people think they can act like him. Like they can go off in public and just randomly attack people for no reason. They think they can violate the social contract with no consequences. Just like with that racist New York lawyer, people are more prepared to slap these people down hard.

Isn't she now trying to blame Ambien for being racist?  That's a new one.

I wouldn't be surprised  if Sara Gilbert avoids acting for good after this mess, but like Vee and others have said for the last few months, I do think Sara has given a very strong performance - certainly more than I would have expected. This could have come across as a vanity project for her but her work genuinely didn't, and the bits I saw were much closer to the Darlene of the first 4-5 years of the show, a character I loved, and a character who later became a bad self-parody. 

 

I wish she could go back into acting, maybe giving some recurring roles to some of the cast members from Roseanne who aren't likely to bounce back (like Lecy, Michael Fishman, or Natalie West). 

 

There's no "bright spot" to any of this, but the one thing I can say as a fan of those first 4-5-6 years I'm glad that I got to see a DJ, Becky and Darlene that I would have wanted them to be (or close enough, anyway) and that I got to see Crystal one last time. No matter how much Roseanne ruined this show (over and over), at least she can't take that away from me.

Edited May 30, 20187 yr by DRW50