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Possible new home for "Roseanne"?

How about this if Roseanne were to get another chance she would have to negotiate with Sinclair for syndication distribution to Sinclair/Tribune owned stations. Roseanne can easily get the demos shes aiming for.
 
RadioPatrol said:
How about this if Roseanne were to get another chance she would have to negotiate with Sinclair for syndication distribution to Sinclair/Tribune owned stations. Roseanne can easily get the demos shes aiming for.
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I have seen nothing that leads me to believe Sinclair is looking to replace its major network entertainment programming with its own content.
 
RadioPatrol said:
True True.
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I don't live in a Sinclair market (Thank God!), but I doubt even they would want anything to do with this radioactive woman. Our narcissist Fearless Leader has managed to work this situation into his personal demand for an apology from ABC, but only the POTUS is that deluded. Even Rosanne is fully aware of how badly she screwed up, and IMO, she is a borderline mental case.

Gawd, we live in 'interesting' times, don't we?
 
LKellerIII said:
I don't live in a Sinclair market (Thank God!), but I doubt even they would want anything to do with this radioactive woman. Our narcissist Fearless Leader has managed to work this situation into his personal demand for an apology from ABC, but only the POTUS is that deluded. Even Rosanne is fully aware of how badly she screwed up, and IMO, she is a borderline mental case.

Gawd, we live in 'interesting' times, don't we?
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Apology from ABC? Shoot. More proof that 45 is delusional. Now I didn't realize it until Wendy Williams brought it up on her show yesterday (or was it Wednesday) that one of the top brass at ABC is a black woman.
 
MarcB said:
Apology from ABC? Shoot. More proof that 45 is delusional. Now I didn't realize it until Wendy Williams brought it up on her show yesterday (or was it Wednesday) that one of the top brass at ABC is a black woman.
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I doubt that mattered much. CBS or NBC would have jettisoned Roseanne, too. Fox? Maybe they would have tried to save it somehow, but I even have my doubts about that. And Fox is certainly not stupid enough to pick up Roseanne now. There is absolutely no comparison to Last Man Standing. Supporting Trump is an entirely different thing than making blatantly racist remarks.
 
MarcB said:
Apology from ABC? Shoot. More proof that 45 is delusional. Now I didn't realize it until Wendy Williams brought it up on her show yesterday (or was it Wednesday) that one of the top brass at ABC is a black woman.
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Correct and she is the one who dropped the show.
 
would Roseanne have posted these rants on Twitter if it had existed in the 90s during the original show? luckiy for the rest of the cast and the cast of the Cosby show and Carsey-Werner, they are both way past their peak in syndication but I guess they will no longer be evergreens like The Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, or Gilligan's Island that remained popular long after the original runs, The Brady Bunch spawned 2 short lived reboots and 2 movies, Robert Reed's private life didn't hurt the syndication value, but will people watch a spinoff without Roseane, would they watch a spinoff of the Cosby Show without Cliff Huxtable about a grown up Theo or Denise? Jerry Seinfeld better behave himself and not get caught up in the #MeToo movement, he was able to dodge Michael Richards
 
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No one is going to touch the Cosby Show lineage. No one. It's done, it's over as a brand. That really isn't hard to grasp, I would think.

ABC may try to come up with a show for the remaining cast they're going to be paying anyway, but likely it will be nothing more than a way to recoup a bit of the cash, not a long-term play. You lose the hard-core defenders of the indefensible, and what's left may have some initial curiosity in the same way people watch a train wreck. But once the novelty wears off, and it will, quickly in today's world, it will fade away as a footnote in history.

(And The Brady Bunch had sequels, not reboots....they, and the TV movie that preceded The Bradys...were continuations of the original.)
 
nomadcowatbk said:
would Roseanne have posted these rants on Twitter if it had existed in the 90s during the original show?
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Hard to know. First, we didn't have Ambien (or whatever sleeping pill she blamed) during the original run. We also had a kinder gentler nation.
 
http://www.wwlp.com/world/roseanne-barr-return-possible-but-lesser-platform-likely-1/1214335080

Well this is speculation on Roseanne's future.

LOS ANGELES, CA - (AP) - After her network dropped her show, streaming services dropped her reruns, and her agency dropped her for a racist tweet, Roseanne Barr is vowing she's not finished.

Whether anyone will have her is an open question.

Mainstream television, where she saw soaring success both on the original "Roseanne" and the recent short-lived reboot, is probably out. But she finds herself in an environment flush with media outlets where the style of incendiary statements she was making long before Tuesday's tweet is not a hindrance, but rather an asset.

"Whether or not she will see herself back on a major network is probably doubtful," said Eric Dezenhall of Dezenhall Resources, a crisis-management firm. "If her goal is earning the big bucks again, network is where you get it, but I think that for certain people what years ago was a career crisis is now a brand extension."

If Barr wants to present herself as a victim of a culture where political correctness has run amok, a stance she has already assumed on Twitter, she has a built in fan-base willing to embrace her next move, whether as an actress, comic or commentator.

"She does have people who will see her as kind of a brave First Amendment type figure," Dezenhall said, "and you now have all kinds of outlets for entertainers, ranging from podcasts to streaming networks, that encourage just her kind of obnoxiousness ... If you move lower on the food chain from networks, you can make an outrageous remark once a day."

Rebecca Sun, who covers the entertainment industry for the trade publication The Hollywood Reporter, agrees that while network TV is a non-starter, Barr will find a home if she wants it.
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