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ABC has announced that they are canceling the show Roseanne after star Roseanne Barr's racist comments. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives. Reaching…

ABC announced they were taking the hit sitcom reboot off the air shortly after Roseanne Barr, one of their biggest starts, apologized for going on a racist Twitter rant about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Read more on this story…

ABC has canceled "Roseanne" after Roseanne Barr, one of ABC's biggest stars, went on a racist Twitter rant.

Roseanne Barr, one of ABC's biggest stars, apologized after a bizarre, racist Twitter rant against former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett and other prominent Democrats, and then announced she's "now leaving Twitter."

Sara talks about Roseanne smoking pot, executive producing the show, working with the whole cast again after all these years, and she reveals how she juggles shooting 'Roseanne' and 'The Talk' simultaneously. Rudy Giuliani is Very Confused https://youtu.be/vPj0qzPiMhA SUBSCRIBE to…

She's spent recent years promoting a messy brand of politics, propagating transphobic and Islamophobic rhetoric on Twitter and fully embracing Donald Trump's MAGA message while promoting right-wing conspiracy theories. It's a confusing devolution into a radical lunatic—something closer to Alex Jones than the socialist, pro-union, and anti-one percent character she played in the '90s. There's Roseanne Barr and then there's Roseanne Conner. There are some similarities and plenty of differences. Her influence will be there no matter what—even if it's just in her performance as the show's star. Helford also tells The Hollywood Reporter that there's no agenda or intention to make a TV show about politics—even though that's what it has been so far: We never set out to be a show about politics. We set out to be a show about the Conners and how the current political climate affects the family. The idea is to present all sides of the dialogue. We're talking about the effects of all the politics on the lives of people like the Conners. Maybe it'll never mention politics going forward—but Barr's bizarre shift in personal ideology is still hanging over every episode.

After quitting Twitter late last year, Roseanne Barr is dipping her toe back into social media, but this time politics is off limits. The outspoken star of ABC’s revival of comedy hit Roseanne (Tuesdays, 8 ET/PT), announced her retirement from social media in December after getting into an online feud with people who responded harshly to tweets praising President Trump and criticizing his election foe, Hillary Clinton, and former president Obama. In response to the blowback, she tweeted: "i won't be censored or silence chided or corrected and continue to work. bye!" In the series, Barr's character also is a Trump supporter, a political perspective not regularly seen on film and TV. She fights with but still loves her sister, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf), a Jill Stein voter. I don’t want to get anyone mad at me. I’ll try to find another way to say what is important for me,” says Barr, acknowledging she didn’t want to hurt her iconic show’s return. “I want people to watch it and love it.” Part of the problem is that many people don’t separate Roseanne the character from Roseanne the person. “I’m fine with that.