Apparently they killed off Roseanne
The character, that is, in the series that used to bear her name. The plot line has her dying from an opioid overdose, in both a nod to a current US problem and an act of vengeance against the series’ creator and star.
We’ll see if that helps them; so far, it’s doing so-so:
Down 35% from the Roseanne opener, the debut of The Conners was just 4% better than the mothership series finale in metered market numbers. In fact, despite a massive marketing push, The Conners wasn’t even the highest rated show of Tuesday night. Though The Conners was ahead of This Is Us by 22% in the early numbers, it was the fourth episode of the 16th season of CBS’ NCIS that topped the night with a 8.1/13 in metered market results.
Killing off Roseanne doesn’t mean they couldn’t bring her back, although I doubt they will (and I’m not sure she would accept even if they asked). After all, towards the end of the original series, Roseanne’s husband Dan was revealed to have died, and they brought him back.
I don’t watch the show, but I’m curious what will happen to the ratings.
Roseanne was deemed unworthy for light and casual causes. #HateLovesAbortion
Are shows about zombies still a thing?
Ah ha! NCIS in it’s 16th season beats them all. Ages ago we had films made by John Ford or John Huston featuring rugged individuals who went their own way. NCIS has a bit of this flavor with its lead character Leroy Jethro Gibbs, plus Mike Franks, and Ziva David.
I’ve gotten a little tired of the show, but my wife still loves it. There is a major market for old fashioned toughness, independence and morality; but Hollywood and the networks refuse to serve it, for the most part.
Years ago, a young WSJ journalist who specialized in media commentary, just couldn’t figure out why that show was so successful. She analyzed it from various identity politics perspectives, and it just defied her understanding.
I’d guess “The Conners” is toast. “Rosanne” was hard working, lower middle class, and very politically incorrect. Let’s just remake the show so that it only seems politically incorrect, but really isn’t. Sure, why didn’t I think of that?
I never watched NCIS original episodes (no time for TV then), so we bought the dvd series and are now up to Season 11. “Ooh Rah!”
I have never watched any of these shows, but three cheers for Tim Allen (and I think I’ll watch “Galaxy Quest” again this week).
https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2018/10/17/ratings-last-man-standing-the-conners/
“Tim Allen isn’t liberal. He’s made that clear in the last few years, and it’s no doubt failed to ingratiate him to many in Hollywood.
Surely that fact played into the inexplicable cancellation of his hit sitcom, Last Man Standing, in May of 2017. The show — which had run for six years — was ABC’s second-most watched program during the 2016-17 season.
Nonetheless, CANNED.
Like tuna.
Sooooo fishy.
But ALAS — Fox picked up the hit, poised to give America a heaping helping of 7th-season glory.
Some speculated that ABC’s initial success with the Roseanne resurrection bolstered Fox’s confidence in the LMS move. Of course, shortly after Roseanne’s return, a certain tweet by the show’s star tanked the ship (see here and especially here — Holy Cow).
So now we have the Right vs. the Left: both shows recently returned — Allen’s conservative Last Man (about a Trump-supporting husband and father), and the middle finger to Republican Roseanne Barr as an iteration resulting from her character’s death.
So both sides, come out fighting!
Ding Ding!
How’d they do?”
OK, we are all intelligent and informed people, so we remember. But I wonder how many of the general public recalls why Rosanne Barr was canned from her show. And it was less than 5 months ago.
I’m surprised Fox hasn’t picked her up and put her into a new named sit-com very similar to the prior one. I don’t know enough about media contracts…
We quite liked the NCIS series in Slovak, but they stopped for awhile and we haven’t gone back. Gibbs is a great character.
I still don’t like Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher, tho. I can barely tolerate that in the movie, love the books.
Strong, good hearted male heroes. Probably what Harry Potter might grow up to be (tho if JK Rawling writes more of him as an adult, it’s almost certain to be too PC to be as heroic as that epic seven year 11-17 boy to man adventure which was so wonderful 10 years ago.)
An interesting series from Ukraine is available in English “Sniffer” (we watch in Slovak) — about a man working with/ for the police whose sense of smell is as good as a dog. Quite cool about how much he can identify by scent, alone. Plus complicated relations: ex-wife, teen son, womanizer police friend (not too PC) who loves lovely Slavic women…
Maybe they love to see conservatives die?