Roseanne Barr Is Planning a Comeback with a 'Silly' Series Based on a Family That 'Saves America with Guns' and 'The Bible'
In 2018, the actress was fired from ABC's titular sitcom after she likened former President Barack Obama's advisor Valerie Jarrett to an "ape" in a since-deleted tweet
Roseanne Barr wants to be back on TV.
The actress, 72, who was fired from her titular ABC sitcom in 2018, is hoping to return to television with a brand new comedy series she's written with Roseanne producer Allan Stephan.
She told Variety that her latest endeavor will be four to six episodes and is best described as "a cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos." The new series will reportedly follow an Alabama farmer who is "saving the United States from drug gangs and China," though he also grows and sells drugs like cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms.
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“It’s silly and out there. [It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing," Barr explained. "I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii."
"They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism. It’s kind of like the Coen brothers thing," she added, noting that the new series will feature a family that will share similarities with the Conners from Roseanne.
In 2018, ABC fired Barr from Roseanne after she likened former President Barack Obama's advisor Valerie Jarrett to an “ape” in a since-deleted tweet. Since then, she's claimed that she didn’t know Jarrett was Black and that she was on Ambien while tweeting the statement.
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At the time, president of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey addressed the controversy in a statement.
“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” he wrote.
Barr told the outlet she was shopping the series around to different networks, but replied with resounding, "F--- no," when asked if she would return to ABC if they were interested in developing the show.
Though she isn't sure if another network will pick it up, she said, "I don't give a f--- either way."
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“I’d like to get paid handsomely to bring another s--- f---ing network back from doom as I’ve done twice for ABC," she continued. "But I just don’t see how they would keep their nose out of my business. We’ll see. If not, I’ll just go somewhere else and put it on my own website.”
The actress also added that she believes the American public are eager to see more conservative stories on television, contrary to the content Hollywood has put out in recent years.
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“Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people,” Barr said. “If they want to survive, they should work with the new president [Donald Trump]. American people elected him in an overwhelming victory."
"They should get back in touch with [them] and make some money, which I don’t know if they do or not ’cause they’ve proven to be ideologues rather than [business people]," she continued. "What shocks me is the fact that they prefer to lose money and then explain that to the shareholders who apparently have no problem with that.”
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