Why Cancelling Roseanne Was the Smart Thing to Do

<img src="https://https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Roseanne-revival-2018.jpg" /><p>ABC made the right decision to cancel Roseanne after its star Roseanne Barr’s most recent bout of bigoted Twitter comments.</p><p>ABC’s reboot of <a href="https://screenrant.com/tag/roseanne/"><strong><em>Roseanne</em></strong></a> has been a commercial and critical hit. Its season premiere was watched by 18.44m viewers and became the network's highest-rated comedy show on any night in over three years (although <a href="https://screenrant.com/roseanne-revival-ratings-low/">ratings did fall over the remaining weeks</a>). Outside of <a href="https://screenrant.com/tag/the-big-bang-theory/"><em>The Big Bang Theory</em></a>, it became the biggest comedy on ABC. Even critics who vehemently disagreed with Roseanne Barr's Trump sympathetic politics found themselves warming to the <em>Roseanne</em> of season 10, a socially conscious comedy that tackled life in the white working-class America of the post-Obama age. Yet that success has come to an end with one tweet too far.</p> <strong>Click to continue reading <a href="https://screenrant.com/abc-cancel-roseanne-right-thing/">Why Cancelling Roseanne Was the Smart Thing to Do</a></strong><br /><br /> <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://screenrant.com/abc-cancel-roseanne-right-thing/">Why Cancelling Roseanne Was the Smart Thing to Do</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://screenrant.com/">ScreenRant</a>
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May 28, 2018 at 10:05PM