Roseanne Reruns Dropped by Hulu, CMT, and More Networks

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Magazine

After ABC announced earlier today that it canceled Roseanne, Viacom has decided to pull reruns of the show’s new episodes from its outlets CMT, TV Land, and the Paramount Network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. As a result of star Roseanne Barr’s racist social-media comments from this morning, the Laff network is following suit, and will cease airing episodes from the show’s original run (seasons one through nine). The network made the following statement, “While we believe viewers have always distinguished the personal behavior of the actress Roseanne Barr from the television character Roseanne Connor, we are disgusted by Barr’s comments this week. Therefore, we are removing the original Roseanne series from the Laff schedule for the time being, effective immediately.” Barr’s talent agency, ICM Partners, also dropped her this afternoon.

Update: In a statement to THR, Hulu confirmed that it too will be pulling episodes of Roseanne from its streaming service, with a spokesperson saying, “We support ABC’s decision and are removing the show from Hulu.”

Read more: http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/roseanne-reruns-dropped-by-tv-land-cmt-hulu-and-more-networks.html

[Honeycombe8]

1. Wow. Really? They're getting ahead of it, hoping not to get involved in a scandal. A wise move.

This then costs her and the others who appeared in her old show ...cost in residuals. Big money.

I'm surprised by THIS move, because she's always been controversial. But good. What she tweeted was inexcusable and disgusting. There's no place for that in this country.

They'll put it back in circulation later.

But yay...Trump lost a YUGE propaganda machine for the mid-terms.

[TomVilmer]

4. Maybe Trump just GOT a YUGE propaganda machine for the mid-terms

Roseanne for VP!

[Honeycombe8]

6. We can only hope! nt

[cstanleytech]

7. You did notice the part where they said for the time being right?

Odds are in 6 months to 2 year at most they will be back showing the old episodes.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Yeah, I saw that.

But missing residuals for 6 months or so is something, at least. On top of the current show being cancelled. Sweet.

[cstanleytech]

10. Unless she's blown her fortune from the past series and this current one

I doubt she will even feel the pain.

[Honeycombe8]

14. True. She's REALLY rich. But some of the others in her show aren't THAT rich...

that they won't feel the hit. I'm sure that'll make her think twice. She really cares about her coworkers & friends.

[The Conductor]

18. ABC and/or the production company Carsey-Werner might still sue her...

CW is still hurting from The Cosby Show being yanked. They must be thinking they inherited the show business equivalent of a plague of locusts.

Not just the US, either: Australia's TEN TV Network dumped her, too.

[Honeycombe8]

23. Oh, I was wondering why Cosby Show hadn't been pulled.

I guess with the conviction, it was pulled? 38 women telling how he assaulted them didn't do it?

I'm still perplexed by Hogan's Heroes is on. He'd been a sex addict and druggie and involved in videotaping all sorts of kinky sex & such with various women, and even orgies. There was something wrong with him. He lost his marriage, his home...still had his job, though. He was consumed with women's sexual parts...he'd even mention that in casual conversation with women he didn't know. And we see him on tv acting all funny & decent? That didn't compute to me.

[Jedi Guy]

20. I'd think the other cast members are still getting paid.

They signed contracts, after all, and it wasn't their behavior that caused the cancellation. Kevin Spacey got paid more than Robin Wright for the final season of House of Cards even though they killed his character off. I'm still a bit stunned that she worked, he didn't, and he earned more. Contract law is a hell of a thing.

As for the rest of the cast, I think the poorest of them (relative term) has a net worth of $2-3 million. So they're hardly going to go hungry. Must be nice to lose your job and still be set for life. In any event, they'll probably still get their salary for the cancelled season.

[Honeycombe8]

28. That's good, I suppose. But they knew what they were getting into.

She's controversial and a Trumper. So they had to know there was a chance of backlash.

[forgotmylogin]

25. Yes, exactly. She was poised to capitalize on her comeback.

I hadn't seen the original run of Rosanne, but it has started showing up on cable networks. TVLand, I think? This will lose Rosanne (and the networks) a lot of revenue because this period of time would be when they should normally capitalize on the revival's buzz.

[Cha]

22. Right! I wasn't even thinking of that yet..

that trump lost one of his propaganda machines.

It's over.. just like that.

[mucifer]

26. Sort of. But, it plays into his paranoia propaganda that right wingers love

[Chemisse]

2. Action ----- Consequences

Could this mean that it will again be socially inappropriate to make racist remarks?

You can't stop people from thinking these things, but at least we should not be subjected to them verbalizing their little turds of hatred.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Her reruns are on the stations (Laff and TV Land)

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for at least 3 hours each night. This will hurt but I am sure she doesn't need the money. If she cares about her "image" more than the money, than maybe this will have a very slight effect. Will & Grace did a reboot and hasn't had this PR problem and I doubt the new Murphy Brown reboot will either. The actors on those shows aren't deplorables with a megaphone like Barr.

*Currently, LAFF has reruns of Night Court in place of Roseanne tonight but The Guide still lists "Roseanne".

[Chicago1980]

5. Damn...

#WINNING?

Well, I guess all those confederate conservatives posting earlier online that the 2nd Season would be picked up by another network... No so fucking much.

[kimbutgar]

13. Fox picked up the Racist Tim Allen maybe they'll pick up Roseanne

Not!!!!

[47of74]

17. That's what Mark Hamill said

Link to tweet

[durablend]

9. Karma is a bitch isn't it?

"Damn leftist TV networks!!!!"

[kimbutgar]

11. You say mean shit and it comes back to bite one in the ass

Couldn’t happen to a better person. Now if only we can take down twitler. I wish the tapes of him saying awful things during his apprentice days get released someday. I remember Tom Srnold talking about those tapes during the election. He’s lucky he got away from the rude and racist Roseanne.

[procon]

12. POW! Radioactive Roseanne got hit her right in the bank account.

No more checks coming in from all her reruns and no new work will be offered because she's poison now. She can kiss her income goodbye. I hope she had a clause in her contract with ABC that will let them cancel her show for cause without having to pay her off.

[Jedi Guy]

21. Her net worth is estimated at $80 million, a colleague told me.

She's hardly gonna starve in the street. She'll probably shrug her shoulders, sell her house, and buy a ranch somewhere in East Galoshes Corners to settle down in retirement. And she'll do so in far greater comfort than most.

While it's good that her platform has been knocked from beneath her, this isn't going to inconvenience her much.

[ginnyinWI]

15. No redeeming value in that show anyway. nt

[George II]

16. Cancelled as of tomorrow, and ABC has even pulled reruns of the new show, too.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. I'd say she's permanently washed up in Hollywood.

She could maybe join Seinfeld's Michael Richards on the stand up circuit playing places like the Komedy Klan Klub, but her head is on a pike as a warning to others.

[riversedge]

24. She will not go quietly into the night.

[underpants]

27. Wow. Syndication is like free money

People with a piece of Seinfeld still make serious money just off the syndication. I'm sure Roseanne was too.

[philly_bob]

29. Too far. Will be used by RW as proof of left-wing "political correctness"

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It was absolutely correct to cancel her current show.

But why cancel her reruns? Her old shows didn't show the Trumpian racism, and actually were quite humane -- plus incredibly funny.

Too reminiscent of the tendency of certain sectors of the left to drown out public speakers with heckling.

[Blue_Adept]

30. Because advertisers don't want to have their product show up during any form of the show

Hence the networks lose money.

Or places like Hulu get awareness campaigns run against them and they lose subscribers.

That's why.

[philly_bob]

31. A reasonable explanation, BA. Follow the money.

Networks are money-making machines, not judges of worth or value.

[obamanut2012]

32. "certain sectors of the left"

lolz