Is ‘Roseanne’ Moving to Fox?

The fallout from Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet on Tuesday has been quite a thing to behold, a chain of events unlike any we’ve seen in TV history. After tweeting a racist insult about former President Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, ABC canceled the Roseanne revival, Barr’s talent agency dropped her as a client, and Hulu and plenty of cable networks pulled the show from their lineups (you can, however, still stream the classic seasons on Amazon’s Prime Video).

Through all of this, fans of the sitcom have done what they always do when a show they love gets the ax: they hold out hope that it’ll get picked up by another network. It’s happened plenty of times in the past, most recently with Brooklyn Nine-Nine jumping from Fox to NBC and Last Man Standing moving from ABC to Fox. That last example, a right-leaning sitcom with an outspoken conservative in the lead getting revived by Fox, has caused many to believe that Roseanne is moving to Fox.

That’s not happening. Roseanne is not moving to Fox, even though there are people that have tried to start Twitter campaigns to convince Fox to pick up the show. Barr herself has responded to those campaigns, basically saying “thanks but no thanks.”

Barr, who frequently tweets out disproven information and peddles conspiracy theories, has even found herself the subject of conspiracy theories about Roseanne getting picked up by Fox.

Irony!

If you’re wondering if Netflix might pick up Roseanne the same way they renewed shows like Arrested Development and Longmire, I wouldn’t hold out hope. Netflix used the conversation surrounding the cancelation to promote its own show, One Day at a Time, touting it as being a more than decent replacement for those missing Roseanne.

There’s even less chance of Roseanne continuing elsewhere because ABC, at least as of a few days ago, was still interested in doing business with pretty much everyone else on Roseanne. Whether or not they’ll rush a totally new and separate show starring John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf into production remains unclear (and also super risky, as the fall TV season is just a few months away).

So yeah, it looks like Roseanne is legit canceled, as in it is done done, as in it is over. Fox isn’t picking it up, Netflix is throwing shade at it, and ABC might figure out a way to put the rest of the cast to work on a totally different show. It looks like if you want some unfiltered Roseanne, Twitter is the only place to find it.

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