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Charles Kimbrough is coming out of retirement so that Jim Dial can come out of retirement for a multi-episode arc on the "Murphy Brown" revival

My guess is that, despite her bluster, she felt guilty about causing all of those people to lose their jobs. She not only retains the rights to the Roseanne Conner character and spinoffs from "Roseanne", she also retains the rights to any spinoffs from "The Conners". This is literally a one-off...

In a way, a half-hour comedy is the worst show to be at the center of this brouhaha. ABC has a distinct shortage of new inventory in this area, and it's harder to plug in a reality show than can be thrown together quickly in a 30-minute slot than an hour-long slot.

We're definitely getting out of the acceptable bounds of HTF discourse at this point. Fair to say, though, that Mike is most definitely not someone who lives in a perpetual state of being offended. The Behar video -- which I still have not seen -- must have been well outside the bounds of normal...

"Twat" is another word I exclude from my vocabulary, for the same reasons as the "c" word (but not quite as severe).

It's a cultural thing, too; in many countries, the "c" word isn't seen as any big deal -- it's roughly on a par with "bitch" or "asshole". But in the United States -- Bee's target audience -- it's just about the most taboo swear word there is. There were only two words I was raised never to...

We're far afield of "Roseanne" at this point, and we're getting into choppy waters. I haven't seen the video of Behar so I can't weigh in on that, but I do think it's a matter of public interest/debate when an elected public official makes himself more available to one gender than the other...

^ A great idea, if it's not just "Roseanne" minus Roseanne. Have Darlene get a job that requires her and and her two kids relocate to a new city. Make it near a military base so that D.J. and his daughter can relocate there for season two.

It's not a question of "allowed to". This was a very specific insult, with a very specific history. You are, of course, allowed to be offended by the tweet; I would imagine most decent people were. But neither you nor I were demeaned by it.

Even if that's the case, I'm glad a line was finally drawn in the sand somewhere. If it was the advertisers who were holding the stick, so be it.

With all due respect, the people who may have been enjoying it aren't the ones she insulted.

I don't know what this means. The fact the a show is popular shouldn't shield its star from consequences. What she said was vile, and because she's the face of the show, it poisoned the entire well. I would have been appalled had ABC not taken such strong action.

Tambor is going to have serious difficulty finding work in the future, the season's already in the can, I don't know that there's anything more to be done in his case.

Channing Dungey, the president of ABC, is black so I do think it's likely that she was personally appalled by the tweet. That being said, Dungey and Iger are businesspeople and they knew that tweet would make the show toxic to advertisers. What good are high ratings if nobody wants to associate...

The premiere of the revival got an insanely high 5.1 rating (18.2 million total viewers), the highest rating for a sitcom in nearly four years. To put that number into perspective, the final season of the show's original run only averaged 15.9 million viewers, and that was a time when ratings...

The revival's title sequence (without the titles):

Season 10 Trailer:

And now "Murphy Brown" boards the reboot train: The only way this works for me is if it really leans into the changed media environment. I would be more excited if Candice Bergen is the only returning series regular. Robert Pastorelli and Pat Corley both died more than a decade ago. Charles...

I think a big reason for these revivals is that the network execs look at the ratings they got, even in their waning final seasons, and salivate. They fail to consider that no show gets 12.9 rating anymore