{"id":8766,"date":"2018-05-30T03:48:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/roseanne-canceled-abc-amid-twitter-backlash\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T15:09:19","slug":"roseanne-canceled-at-abc-amid-twitter-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/roseanne-canceled-at-abc-amid-twitter-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Roseanne Canceled at ABC Following Twitter Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has decided to cancel the newly revived sitcom <em>Roseanne<\/em> following a racist comment made by star Roseanne Barr on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, said: &#8220;Roseanne&#8217;s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Disney CEO Robert Iger supported Dungey&#8217;s decision, commenting, &#8220;There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barr had sent a tweet in which she describes Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, as someone who looks like the \u201cMuslim brotherhood &amp; planet of the apes had a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She initially defended the remark as &#8220;a joke&#8221; and tweeted: \u201cI apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans. I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me &#8211; my joke was in bad taste.\u201d She also said she was leaving Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has decided to cancel the newly revived sitcom Roseanne following a racist comment made by star Roseanne Barr on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[158,1720],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-abc","tag-roseanne"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roseanne Canceled at ABC Following Twitter Backlash - TVUSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ABC has decided to cancel the newly revived sitcom Roseanne following a racist comment made by star Roseanne Barr on Twitter.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/roseanne-canceled-at-abc-amid-twitter-backlash\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Roseanne Canceled at ABC Following Twitter Backlash - 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