10 Revived TV Shows That Should've Stayed Cancelled
4. Roseanne
The original, late-eighties to early-nineties run of Roseanne, was something special. Important TV giving visibility to an ordinary working class household, it was warm, and beautifully acted by star Roseanne Barr and her TV husband, the great John Goodman. It ran nine seasons, probably a couple too many, as the latter years saw Roseanne win the lottery, then reveal that the entire series was just fabricated by the lead character.
Ending on such a sour note, it’s easy to see why ABC would want to revive the show, and for a couple of years they had a fun nostalgia act on their hands, but they would soon come to regret the idea.
Roseanne Barr, a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, tweeted some deeply hateful, racist material about former Obama administration official Valerie Jarrett, and soon enough the new Roseanne was scrapped.
They tried once more with a Goodman-led spinoff called The Conners (for which they killed off TV Roseanne), but the ship had sailed by this point. Looking back, the volatile, Twitter-happy Barr was pretty much a disaster waiting to happen.