@001zlnv Counterpoint, though: how's Michael Richards's career doing nowadays?

@zebratron2084 wasn't he already an out of work 3rd banana before the whole racist yelling thing?

@001zlnv This is a straight, not sarcastic question: what was Roseanne doing before this reboot? I honestly don't know and refuse to put the Wiki-crawling energy into her evil punk ass. :)

@zebratron2084 unfortunately still finding fairly steady work as producer, writer, actor, or voice actor.

Keeping her out of work would take a much bigger commitment than Richards.

@zebratron2084

the weaseling out begins.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-television-roseanne/roseanne-spinoff-called-the-conners-to-air-on-abc-in-fall-idUSKBN1JI02X

@001zlnv Note that ABC is apparently going out of its way to make sure that Barr doesn't make any money off that reboot: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/roseanne-spinoff-the-conners-ordered-by-abc-1202854210/

"A major stumbling block, however, was Barr. ABC insisted that the comic receive no financial benefit from a spinoff."

@zebratron2084 that they are, but it still looks like the early phases of an image rehabilitation play book.

keep the product in people's mind divorced from barr, make a big show of barr "sacrificing" to save the jobs of the other cast members, try to mobilize public demand enough to get her a special guest slot in a season, then just back.