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Roseanne

MarcB

MarcB

As of this week Roseanne has moved from COMCASTNBCUNIVERSAL owned OXYGEN over to WE. The show still airs on Viacom-owned TVLAND and as of last Friday they now share it with sister network CMT. Plus it's still on OTA stations including MY TV 9 WCTX 59.1 in New Haven, CT.

Anyway for some reason for WE TV on my COX On-Screen Guide (and on WE TV's website) it does not tell you what episode of Roseanne is airing. Instead it says "A blue-collar family uses laughter to cope." The listings for Roseanne for TVLAND/CMT along with WCTX tell you what each episode is about.


Actually it's not just Roseanne on WE. My guide also does not list what rerun episodes of The Simpsons WCCT-TV 20 is airing. For The Simpsons it says "Homer and Marge Simpson raise Bart, Lisa, and baby Maggie".
 
Despite that show having ended 15 years ago, the cast and crew should still be making a lot of money off that show considering that syndicated repeats have aired since 1992...
 
The listings for WE are showing up for me on TiVo (which grabs them from Tribune), so I suspect that Cox gets their listings from TV Guide/Rovi and doesn't have them yet in for We.

The other thing though is that the end of Roseanne on Oxygen cuts the final thread of that network's ownership pre-NBC between Oprah (now of course with Discovery/OWN), Geraldine Laybourne, and Carsey-Werner (which produced Roseanne), which offered their library of series to Oxygen for a sweetheart deal. Nothing from Oxygen's early days remains on the channel now.
 
I was watching Roseanne in between the commercials on TV Land today. I noticed the episode I watched was produced by Chuck Lorre of Two & Half Men and Big Bang Theory fame. Interestingly, it just happened to be the episode that introduced Johnny Galecki as Darleen's boyfriend.
 
Iowan said:
Despite that show having ended 15 years ago, the cast and crew should still be making a lot of money off that show considering that syndicated repeats have aired since 1992...
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Residual deals between actors, producers, and syndicators vary, but more often than not, payments for actors' performances on reruns run out or diminish greatly after every episode has been run by every station that purchased rerun rights.

Like a used car, the value of a TV program goes down every time it is repeated.

As mentioned, each deal varies. Christina Applegate once mentioned in an interview that she was getting residual checks for 30 cents on reruns of Married, With Children. And that was in the reruns' early cycle.

Actors on M*A*S*H stopped receiving residuals after the show went through six rerun cycles on local stations.

One reason so many sitcoms are rerun on cable is that residual obligations have expired.

Producers are the ones who make out big when a program is sold to syndication. Many times, you don't hear about them again because after cashing in, they made a couple of hundred million, and took the slow boat to Tahiti.

Old saying in Hollywood (and other places): Get all the money you can while you can.
 
therealjm12 said:
I was watching Roseanne in between the commercials on TV Land today. I noticed the episode I watched was produced by Chuck Lorre of Two & Half Men and Big Bang Theory fame. Interestingly, it just happened to be the episode that introduced Johnny Galecki as Darleen's boyfriend.
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And for those who don't get the signifiance of this, Johnny Galecki is one of the "Big Bang Theory" nerds and Darlene was his co-worker and girlfriend early in the series.
 
Update: The episode descriptions of Roseanne on WE showed up mid-week last week, but they're the wrong episode descriptions. #fail

Also I like Roseanne and I see no problem with WE and CMT sharing the rights, what I do have a problem with is the fact the last few days the same episodes have been on an hour apart of WE and CMT. For example yesterday: The episode where Roseanne had PMS and it was Dan's Birthday aired at 4PM on WE and 5PM on CMT. And the episode where Becky got suspended for flipping the bird in the class photo aired at 4:30 on WE and at 5:30PM on CMT. #epicfail
 
vchimpanzee said:
therealjm12 said:
I was watching Roseanne in between the commercials on TV Land today. I noticed the episode I watched was produced by Chuck Lorre of Two & Half Men and Big Bang Theory fame. Interestingly, it just happened to be the episode that introduced Johnny Galecki as Darleen's boyfriend.
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And for those who don't get the signifiance of this, Johnny Galecki is one of the "Big Bang Theory" nerds and Darlene was his co-worker and girlfriend early in the series.
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Also, Laurie Metcalfe (Jackie on Roseanne) plays Sheldon's (Jim Parsons) conservative Christian mother from Texas on BBT.
 
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