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Channing Dungey, the executive who fired Roseanne, has left ABC. Meanwhile, the novelty of what is essentially Roseanne without Roseanne is starting to wear off; ratings are still down from the season 9 and 10 premieres, and the cast is taking a pay cut. Bottom line: don't expect this show to...

The difference is that Bill Cosby is going to jail and Roseanne is just a pariah. And also that Disney never had anything to do with The Cosby Show despite employing its cast members on side projects every now and then. I still think that's when things changed for this show. They enabled the...

If this is a success, do you think they'd even try The Huxtables without Bill Cosby? NBC wanted Cosby himself for a new, unrelated show when the rape allegations arose.

Whoever joked about Christopher Plummer taking over the role, so did he: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/20/christopher-plummer-interview-roseanne-boundaries

That's how they handled the deaths of characters whose actors actually died themselves on Sesame Street and Gimme A Break!, and also how Archie Bunker's Place handled Edith Bunker's death after Jean Stapleton wanted out.

They'll have to do some serious house cleaning at the executive level to get back in the public's good graces.

So I've noticed.

Meanwhile, Disney is probably grateful this took the focus off John Lasseter…temporarily. Why were they so quick to lose one but fought tooth and nail to keep the other?

All y'all suggesting taking the Hogan Family option overlooked the most obvious recasting choice:

If we can't talk about religion, can we at least talk about Darwin's Law of Evolution?

Gloria was spun-off from Archie Bunker's Place a year before they both went down together despite both being still Top 30-rated shows. The others struck while the iron was still hot. That was a situation where everyone was ready to move on except CBS and Carroll O'Connor; not so much damage...

She'll be able to carry it further than either of the Beckys. EDIT: And… she just lost Whoopi. Is there a bridge that remains unburned yet?

The last two seasons of the original were after the Disney buyout, and that's when they really went downhill. And then there's the matter of Home on the Range. We could have had a Dolly Parton movie instead. Despite the historical connections between the two (ABC putting up Disneyland...

I guess claiming to represent working-class Americans is easy when you make hundreds of thousands of dollars a week. And with this, another sitcom legacy crumbles like a stale cookie, and another Tiny Toon Adventures* reference just became dated: *The reason I can forgive Danny Cooksey for...

That's not very nice. To female dogs, I mean.

They must have put her head on Alex Karras's body, a la Oprah and Ann-Margret.

"Fwoosh!" went those bridges.

They ignored a lot.

Even The Golden Girls alluded to abusive behavior on the set during this show's first season.

I hate to say it, but thank God Shelley Winters isn't alive to see this!* Oh, and lest anyone try and invoke the names of All in the Family and Archie Bunker again: *I recently visited her grave. She wasn't spinning yet.

Maybe the rest of the Conners can all move to New York and live in the same building with Rosie O'Donnell.

That's what this guy is essentially calling for: he actually wants the Golden Palace-ified version.

Even though Too Close For Comfort died along with Ted Knight.

Except in Valerie Harper's case, she went to court and won.

Now I know why Mel Brooks made him the villain in Life Stinks.

I have less trouble listening to Michael Jackson in this day and age, particularly the early years pre-Neverland and that Pepsi commercial where his head caught on fire*, than to Bill Cosby, seeing how one was acquitted twice and the other just convicted. The same media let one take the fall...

So when is the aptly named Arrested Development going to reprimand Jeffrey Tambor similarly?

I know I will never watch another TV show from Carsey-Werner again under any circumstances. They enabled too much horrible behavior for me to devote any more time to them than I already have. If I could go back in time to the 1980s and warn everybody not to enable these people, I would.

Even the reruns are getting Cosby'd: http://deadline.com/2018/05/roseanne-pulled-viacom-cable-networks-tomorrow-1202399484/

If they didn't cancel it, it would have essentially cancelled itself if everyone else had walked out on it. Iger is no knight in shining armor himself, just a businessman saying what he believes people want to hear.