On Tuesday (May 29), ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey announced that the network would be canceling the “Roseanne” reboot.
This news came after comedian and star of the now-former show Roseanne Barr tweeted that Former President Barack Obama aide Valerie Jarrett was the product of “Muslim Brotherhood” and the “Planet of the Apes.” Many critics believed that Barr’s message was racist. So, people pushed for the entertainment company to get rid of her show.
Once she saw the backlash she was getting from her tweet, Barr apologized and said that she was leaving Twitter. However, her words were too little, too late. Not too long after the backlash commenced, Dungey agreed to cancel “Roseanne.” “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” the ABC Entertainment president said in an issued statement.
Also, according to Variety, Barr’s talent agency ICM Partners has officially dropped her as a client. “We are all greatly distressed by the disgraceful and unacceptable tweet from Roseanne Barr this morning,” ICM Partners said in a statement. “What she wrote is antithetical to our core values, both as individuals and as an agency. Consequently, we have notified her that we will not represent her. Effective immediately, Roseanne Barr is no longer a client.”
Since all of this, many people on social media have taken to their accounts to react to ABC getting rid of “Roseanne” and ICM Partners dropping her. Some of the social media users who are speaking out about the situation are everyday people, while others are celebrities, as well. One person even worked with Barr and voiced how disappointed she was in Barr’s controversial tweet aimed at Jarrett.
Take a look at some of the many reaction tweets to the “Roseanne” reboot getting canceled below.
From Channing Dungey, President of ABC Entertainment: “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.”
There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.— Robert Iger (@RobertIger) May 29, 2018
For the record, this is Channing Dungey. Sitting on top of your world like a Queen in full judgement of your garbage and taking it out. #Roseanne pic.twitter.com/GxEP2B61uq
— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 29, 2018
Dear @TheRealRoseanne, say hello to #BlackGirlMagic. We call her Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment. You can call her your FORMER boss! @RoseanneOnABC #Cancelled #ByeRoseanne pic.twitter.com/5otfNL1nur
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) May 29, 2018
Thank you, Channing. #justice
— shonda rhimes (@shondarhimes) May 29, 2018
As I called my manager to quit working on Roseanne, I was told it was cancelled. I feel so empowered by @iamwandasykes , Channing Dungey and anyone at ABC standing up for morals and abuse of power. Bullies will NEVER win.
— Emma Kenney (@EmmaRoseKenney) May 29, 2018
Roseanne was ABC’s first number 1 show in 24 years and finished first in the key 18-49 demo. Cancelling it sends a great message about celebrating values over dollars.
— FBI spy Sean Kent (@seankent) May 29, 2018
Is this your second season?!? pic.twitter.com/h5WL2gKcJu
— Matthew Ambien Cherry (@MatthewACherry) May 29, 2018
Today’s Roseanne drama shows us that you can’t simply use an apology to make racism OK.
If you don’t mean something, don’t f**king say it in the first place!
No one believes your apology when you’re mocking an entire race and an entire religion! #RoseanneBarr
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) May 29, 2018
Roseanne Barr just cost dozens of Americans their jobs.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) May 29, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: Roseanne banished from planet earth after racist tweets. pic.twitter.com/NimDqnswc5
— David Alan Grier (@davidalangrier) May 29, 2018
Roseanne remember last year when you blocked me after I told you that you were only funny when someone else wrote your lines?#toldyaso
— Michael Ⓜ (@michaelschweitz) May 29, 2018
What Roseanne said was wrong. I’m sure she knows that. She made a mistake. I don’t know why fellow conservatives are playing mental gymnastics trying to justify it. Come on. Wrong is wrong.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) May 29, 2018
