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ABC canceled "Roseanne" today. Here'southward how it happened.
ABC canceled its hitting sitcom "Roseanne" on Tuesday afterward the show'southward 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.
In one of the tweets, Barr wrote, "Muslim alliance & planet of the apes had a baby=vj." Barr was responding to a comment about Valerie Jarrett, a top former adjutant to President Obama.
Barr had earlier apologized and said she was "now leaving Twitter."
The cancellation comes just months after the show premiered to huge ratings.
Valerie Jarrett on Roseanne Barr'south tweet: "We have to turn it into a educational activity moment"
Valerie Jarrett, a top former aide to President Obama, responded today to Roseanne Barr'due south racist tweet about her.
"We take to plow it into a pedagogy moment," Jarrett told MSNBC.
"I'chiliad fine. I'm worried about all the people out there who don't have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense."
ABC canceled its hit sitcom "Roseanne" today after Barr went on a racist Twitter rant. In one of the tweets, Barr wrote, "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj." Barr was responding to a comment about Jarrett.
Barr claimed she was joking, simply then she deleted the tweet and issued an apology to Jarrett and "all Americans."
White House not commenting on "Roseanne" counterfoil
From CNN's Betsy Klein
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders repeatedly declined to annotate on the cancellation of "Roseanne" and its star's racist tweets.
"The President has been extremely focused, as I only walked through the things going on with the upcoming tiptop," she told reporters aboard Air Force 1.
"He's focused on North Korea. He'south focused on merchandise deals. He'southward focused on rebuilding our military machine, the economy and that's what he'due south spending his time on non responding to other things."
Pressed again given the President'south previous comments on the bear witness, Sanders said, "Over again, the President spent his day focused with things going on this morning."
She continued, "That'south not what the President is looking at. That's not what he'south spending his fourth dimension on and we have a lot of bigger things going on in the land right now."
CNN'south Brian Stelter: ABC couldn't have "Roseanne" without Roseanne Barr
ABC'due south decision to cancel "Roseanne" came quickly today, CNN'southward Brian Stelter reports, since information technology was incommunicable to go along the show without its title character.
"Correct away, Disney and ABC executives agreed they had to pull the plug from this evidence," Stelter said.
"There'south no way to have 'Roseanne' on TV without actually having Roseanne Barr. And there was no way to go on her on the show given these racist and anti-Semitic messages."
Roseanne'due south on-screen granddaughter: "Bullies will NEVER win"
Emma Kenny, who played the granddaughter of Roseanne Barr'southward character, says she was in the process of quitting "Roseanne" when she learned the bear witness had been canceled.
She said she feels empowered by Wanda Sykes, who appear she quit the show simply before news of the cancellation broke.
"Bullies will NEVER win," Kenny tweeted.
The commencement run of "Roseanne" was filled with controversy, as well
From CNN's Brian Lowery
Roseanne Barr is no stranger to controversy, and her prior clan with ABC was punctuated past tumult, including an all-just-legendary level of turnover amongst those who were charged with overseeing her series.
Famously, one of the early on producers, Jeff Harris, took out a full-folio ad in Variety when he left the show, saying that he had decided to take a holiday "in the relative peace and quiet of Beirut."
At another point, Barr issued numbered jerseys to the writing staff, which some took as a bulletin well-nigh how dispensable they were perceived to be.
There were also several high-profile clashes betwixt the star and the network. During contract negotiations in 1993, she went on "The This evening Show" and publicly threatened to take the show to a rival broadcaster.
How celebrities are reacting to "Roseanne" being canceled
Hollywood celebrities took to Twitter following the decision by ABC to cancel "Roseanne" over its star's racist tweet almost Valerie Jarrett, a top former aide to President Obama.
Here's what they are saying:
The ratings for the "Roseanne" reboot were huge
From CNN's Frank Pallotta and Brian Stelter
Dorsum after a 21-twelvemonth hiatus, the "Roseanne" reboot notched 25 meg viewers total when it commencement premiered earlier this year, co-ordinate to Nielsen'southward TV ratings.
The high ratings accounted for three days of fourth dimension-shifted viewing -- that is, people watching on DVRs and on demand.
The showtime episodes of the serial brought in Tv'south highest ratings in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49 demographic for any comedy telecast since 2014.
They also topped the show's original finale 21 years ago by 10% in full viewers, a remarkable achievement at a fourth dimension when ratings across TV accept fallen precipitously.
Ratings slipped in the second week of episodes of the reboot, with an average of 15.two one thousand thousand people tuning in.
Disney CEO: "There was but one affair to exercise here"
Robert Iger, the chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Visitor, called Roseanne Barr'south tweets "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values."
"There was only one matter to do hither, and that was the right affair," he tweeted.
Disney owns ABC.
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