Roseanne Gets A Revival with John Goodman, Roseanne Barr & more

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EXCLUSIVE: One of the biggest comedies of the 1990s, Roseanne, is making a comeback. I hear an eight-episode limited series revival of the hit ABC blue-collar family comedy is in the works with the key cast members reprising their roles, including Roseanne Barr, John Goodman and Sara Gilbert, with Laurie Metcalf and others in the process of joining them. The new installment, produced by the original series’ executive producers Tom Werner, Barr and Bruce Helford as well as Gilbert, is currently in the marketplace, with multiple networks bidding, including Roseanne original home ABC, and Netflix, which has been staging reboots of classic sitcoms, including Full House and One Day At a Time, along with new installments of cult favorites Arrested Development and Gilmore Girls.

Just like with the upcoming new season of Will & Grace, which considered a streaming play before closing a deal at NBC where the original series had aired, ABC is considered the sentimental choice to air the new Roseanne episodes.

Roseanne remains a gold standard for its realistic portrayal of a working-class American family. It centered on the Conners who lived, barely scraping by, in the fictional town of Lanford, Illinois. The revival comes as networks, and particularly ABC, are making a concerted effort to better reflect the lives of everyday Americans.

I hear the intent is for all principal Roseanne actors to appear in some capacity in the reboot, including The Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki.

Like NBC’s Will & Grace‘s comeback, which was triggered by a short election-themed reunion video the stars of the series made last fall, Goodman and Gilbert too recently staged a mini Roseanne revival in a video filmed during Goodman’s visit to CBS’ The Talk, which Gilbert created, co-hosts and executive produces. (You can watch it below).

During Goodman’s interview, he was enthusiastic about doing a Roseanne reboot. “Oh, hell yes… if we could get everyone together,” he told co-host Julie Chen. “The big ‘R’ (Roseanne Barr) and I did a pilot about five years ago that didn’t go anywhere…but we were very happy to work together.”

Gilbert was more cautious when asked if she would do a reboot. “I would. Your only fear is you don’t want to do a bad version, because you don’t want to damage what’s been done.”

Roseanne, produced by indie Carsey-Werner, was a big ratings hit and ran for nine seasons on ABC. Next month, May 20, 2017, marks the 20th anniversary of the Roseanne series finale, which drew 16 million viewers. The family sitcom earned Emmy nominations for Barr, Goodman, Metcalf and Gilbert, with Barr winning one and Metcalf three statuettes.

In 2009, on her website Barr gave her detailed take on where each of the main characters from the show would be in a possible Roseanne revival — Roseanne and Jackie opening the first medical marijuana dispensary in Lanford; Dan reappearing alive after faking his death; DJ being published; Mark dying in Iraq; David leaving Darlene for a woman half his age; Darlene coming out, meeting a woman and having a baby with her; Becky working at Walmart; Arnie befriending the Governor of Illinois and remarrying Nancy, Bev selling a painting for $10,000; Jerry and the grandsons forming a boy band; and Bonnie being arrested for selling crack.


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SO they gonna retcon all the batshyt insane shyt they had in the last two seasons or is she gonna slip into a coma and dream about home or some shyt?:aicmon:

i watched Roseanne in reruns catch episodes here and here. I sat watched that finale some years back and had a :gucci::dead:
reaction. Dan dead, and the relationships with her daughters and their husbands were reversed. People watched for years one sister dating one brother, and they switch in the finale :wtf: its been 20 years some they probably think people forgot
 

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Can't see how they get past the series finale unless they just ignore it or pull another "well... all that we told you happened didn't really happen".

WOAT finale
I don't think a sitcom show EVER fell off harder than Roseanne did. Comparing those first few seasons to the last few seasons. :wow:
 

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Can't see how they get past the series finale unless they just ignore it or pull another "well... all that we told you happened didn't really happen".


I don't think a sitcom show EVER fell off harder than Roseanne did. Comparing those first few seasons to the last few seasons. :wow:

Norm Macdonald was a writer on the show. I can't remember what interview it was but he said she would just give a bunch of writing jobs to her friends.

He talks about it here:


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i watched Roseanne in reruns catch episodes here and here. I sat watched that finale some years back and had a :gucci::dead:
reaction. Dan dead, and the relationships with her daughters and their husbands were reversed. People watched for years one sister dating one brother, and they switch in the finale :wtf: its been 20 years some they probably think people forgot

I watched Roseanne back when it was actually running :old: as a kid 'cause my mom taped that and COACH and the last Season was bat shyt insane. I know John Goodman being absent and focusing on his growing movie career at the time really had Roseanne in her feelings offscreen bit she pretty much demolished whatever was built in the previous seasons on some 'fukk it' shyt since she sensed the end coming.

Wasn't she a ninja/commando battling terrorists ontop of a train in one episode?:dead:

She did not give one solitary shyt about closing off that show on a warm note and Dan being killed off was a major 'fukk you' to fans and Goodman himself at the time.

I have a feeling it's gonna be on some Fuller House type cringe shyt, but I'm a John Goodman Stan so I'd watch if not just to see what :dahell: they got planned.
 
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