Not one to let things go, Roseanne Barr had a pointed response to being killed off in the premiere of the reboot to her once eponymous show, now titled The Conners, reports TheHollywood-Reporter.com. “I AIN’T DEAD, B***HES!!!! (sic),” the actress tweeted just an hour after the episode finished airing.
Killing off the Roseanne Conner character, was “an unnecessary grim and morbid dimension to an otherwise happy family show,” Barr and Shmuley Boteach, later said in a joint statement.
“Roseanne was the only show on television that directly addressed the deep divisions threatening the very fabric of our society,” the statement read. “The show brought together characters of different political persuasions and ethnic backgrounds in one, unified family, a rarity in modern American entertainment.”
ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey called the statement “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.” He said the network would not be producing’s the show’s second season.
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