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     • ABC canceled its hit sitcom “Roseanne” on Tuesday after the show’s biggest star, Roseanne Barr, went on a racist Twitter rant. “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC said.
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   Why did ABC pull the plug on Roseanne?

   • Executives at ABC and its parent company, Disney, decided early in the day to pull the plug on "Roseanne." The view inside Disney, according to sources, was that Tuesday was the third or fourth time when Barr's tweets had presented a problem for ABC. This controversy was by far the worst yet.

   The inside story of how ABC fired Roseanne Barr - CNN Business

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   Why did Roseanne Barr cancel 'Roseanne'?

   • ‘Roseanne’ Canceled at ABC. The move comes after series star and creator Roseanne Barr made a comment on Twitter Tuesday morning referring to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as looking like the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.” Jarrett, an African-American, was born in Iran to American parents.

   'Roseanne' Canceled at ABC - Variety

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   Why did ABC choose Roseanne?

   • The network’s willingness to gamble on it was two-fold. Resurrections of ’90s hits like Will & Grace and Full House had worked for other networks, but Roseanne was particularly appealing to ABC because it was looking for a show that would appeal to Donald Trump voters.

   Why ABC Finally Had to Cancel Roseanne - The Atlantic

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   Does ABC own Roseanne?

   • ABC doesn’t directly own Roseanne, which means that it doesn’t control all the eventual revenues from the program from sales to streaming companies, to international broadcasters, and so on. (You can read more about how this works here .)

   Roseanne canceled: why ABC had to end the show - Vox

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   Why did Roseanne Barr leave Twitter?

   • “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” ABC said. The cancellation comes just months after the show premiered to huge ratings. Barr had earlier apologized and said she was “now leaving Twitter.”

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   Can you control Roseanne Barr?

   • “You can’t control Roseanne Barr,” Ben Sherwood, the president of ABC, said in an interview with The New York Times in March. “Many who have tried have failed. She’s the one and only.” It was an easy deflection, one that made the star of his biggest sitcom sound like a brilliant, maverick artiste.

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3. money.cnn.com › 2018/05/29 › mediaThe inside story of how ABC fired Roseanne Barr - CNN Business

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   May 30, 2018 · Executives at ABC and its parent company, Disney, decided early in the day to pull the plug on "Roseanne." The view inside Disney, according to sources, was that Tuesday was the third or...

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   May 30, 2018 · Executives at ABC and its parent company, Disney, decided early in the day to pull the plug on “Roseanne.” The view inside Disney, according to sources, was that Tuesday was the third or fourth time when Barr’s tweets had presented a problem for ABC. This controversy was by far the worst yet.

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   May 29, 2018 · By Joe Otterson. ABC has pulled the plug on the revival “ Roseanne.” The move comes after series star and creator Roseanne Barr made a comment on Twitter Tuesday morning referring to former...

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    May 29, 2018 · Two months later, the network finally asserted control, canceling Roseanne on Tuesday just hours after Barr sent a nakedly racist tweet about the former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.