ABC's "Roseanne" Spinoff Clears Key Hurdle as Negotiations Heat Up

[Ubiquitous]

Should a new take on the successful revival move forward, the WGA has
made it clear any series will retain the comedian's credit.

The proposed Roseanne spinoff is still very much alive at ABC, and
negotiations are said to have moved to a new phase thanks to
concessions from its erstwhile star.

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Roseanne Barr has agreed in
principle to walk away from the characters she helped create in order
to allow Roseanne’s cast and crew to pursue a spinoff in the wake of
the show’s May cancellation due to her racist tweets.

ABC and producer Carsey-Werner are insisting that Barr not participate
financially or creatively in the proposed spinoff, which is said to
revolve around the character played by Sara Gilbert. Other Roseanne
writer-producers and castmembers, including John Goodman and Laurie
Metcalf, are said to be tentatively on board (they would receive the
same fees as previously negotiated for the second season of the
Roseanne revival, which was ABC’s top-rated program this season).

But since Barr would be entitled to substantial fees and backend on any
spinoff of Roseanne (the original series was created by Matt Williams,
but it is also credited as being "based upon a character created by
Barr”), she must waive those rights before any such show could proceed.
With Barr having tentatively agreed to do so, now the negotiation is
over what, if any, one-time payment she should receive as “go-away
money,” as one source puts it.

ABC and Carsey-Werner declined to comment, and sources caution that the
precarious nature of the negotiations and Barr’s volatile disposition
could change the situation before a deal is closed. Even if Barr signs
off on the spinoff, the network would still need to pick it up
officially, though that is highly likely given the tune-in for Roseanne
this season. ABC has yet to announce what will replace the series in
the 8 p.m. Tuesday time slot in the fall.

Barr, who saw her successful show imploded by her racist tweet directed
at former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, is said to be apologetic to
Roseanne’s cast and crew but hasn’t taken 100 percent responsibility
for the series' demise. And even though she would be cut out of
participating in the spinoff, Barr will not lose any financial stake in
the previously produced 10 seasons of the program.

As previously reported, the current plan is to revisit the show while
shifting focus to Sarah Gilbert's character Darlene. Gilbert, an
executive producer on the recent reboot, was instrumental in getting
the gang back together for the now one-off revival season. Goodman (who
plays Dan) and Metcalf (Jackie) are also expected to return, as is the
rest of the cast (save Barr). Behind the camera, much of the creative
team and writing staff are also expected to be on board — showrunner
Bruce Helford included. Executive producer Tom Werner, whose Carsey-
Werner owns the IP, has been involved in the negotiations. Werner's
longtime partner, Marcy Carsey, meanwhile, recently said that she
wouldn't try to revive the series following its cancellation.

The spinoff would give ABC its marquee premiere for the 2018-19 season
back, even if in a different iteration, and would help the network
avoid the many payouts it was on the hook for. At the very least, the
trio of Gilbert, Metcalf and Goodman expected to be paid for at least
10 episodes of the scrapped 11th season, since their options had been
exercised for a $300,000-an-episode salary. (Still unclear is what
happens to the writing staff, including Helford, if the new series
should fall through.)

Things have been surprisingly quiet on the Roseanne front since initial
talks about the proposed spinoff during the first week of June. ABC is
clearly incentivized to bring back any iteration of the No. 1 show of
the year but clearly recognizes that Barr receiving any compensation
for new episodes is out of the question. The Disney-owned network was
surprisingly speedy in its decision to cancel Roseanne after the star's
comments, pulling the plug within 12 hours of the tweet in question and
issuing several damning responses.

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[anim8rfsk]

In article <99GdnXarF5xPbrvG...@giganews.com>,

Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

>
> Should a new take on the successful revival move forward, the WGA has
> made it clear any series will retain the comedian's credit.
>
> The proposed Roseanne spinoff is still very much alive at ABC, and
> negotiations are said to have moved to a new phase thanks to
> concessions from its erstwhile star.
>
> Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Roseanne Barr has agreed in
> principle to walk away from the characters she helped create in order
> to allow Roseanne’s cast and crew to pursue a spinoff in the wake of
> the show’s May cancellation due to her racist tweets.
>
> ABC and producer Carsey-Werner are insisting that Barr not participate
> financially or creatively in the proposed spinoff, which is said to
> revolve around the character played by Sara Gilbert. Other Roseanne
> writer-producers and castmembers, including John Goodman and Laurie
> Metcalf, are said to be tentatively on board (they would receive the
> same fees as previously negotiated for the second season of the
> Roseanne revival, which was ABC’s top-rated program this season).
>
> But since Barr would be entitled to substantial fees and backend on any
> spinoff of Roseanne (the original series was created by Matt Williams,
> but it is also credited as being "based upon a character created by
> Barr”), she must waive those rights before any such show could proceed.
> With Barr having tentatively agreed to do so, now the negotiation is
> over what, if any, one-time payment she should receive as “go-away
> money,” as one source puts it.

This is idiotic. The SJWs and Snowflakes won't allow the show to
continue if Barr profits from it, so they're going to give her millions
up front to forgo profiting from it later?

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It was Roseanne who floated the idea. HER IDEA.

"A source close to the disgraced comic—who, a source says, is “hunkered
down” with her parents in Utah—tells Page Six: “Roseanne feels so bad
about her antics she is trying to figure out a way to help people harmed
by the cancellation. She’s considering giving up financial and creative
participation in a spinoff so the people she loves can have jobs. Barr
holding on is a stumbling block.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-roseanne-barr-ready-to-give-up-her-cut-of-spin-off-for-cast-and-crew

If there's an idiot here, it's STILL her.

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[Roger Blake]

On 2018-06-18, anim8rfsk <anim...@cox.net> wrote:
> This is idiotic. The SJWs and Snowflakes won't allow the show to
> continue if Barr profits from it, so they're going to give her millions
> up front to forgo profiting from it later?

Liberals are idiots by definition. Roseanne's tweet was not racist,
it was just a bad joke. (It's not like she called anyone a nigger,
porch monkey, jigaboo, or anything like that.) Now she has a mob of
tolerant, compassionate, open-minded libs after her blood and even
her old show has been redacted from the airwaves. Very Soviet, very
liberal.

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On Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 9:17:42 PM UTC-4, anim8rfsk wrote:
> In article <99GdnXarF5xPbrvG...@giganews.com>,

> Ubiquitous wrote:

> > ABC and producer Carsey-Werner are insisting that Barr not participate
> > financially or creatively in the proposed spinoff, which is said to
> > revolve around the character played by Sara Gilbert. Other Roseanne
> > writer-producers and castmembers, including John Goodman and Laurie
> > Metcalf, are said to be tentatively on board (they would receive the
> > same fees as previously negotiated for the second season of the
> > Roseanne revival, which was ABC’s top-rated program this season).

> This is idiotic. The SJWs and Snowflakes won't allow the show to
> continue if Barr profits from it, so they're going to give her millions
> up front to forgo profiting from it later?

Why not hire another actress to take over Barrnold's role, like Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, or Kathy Najimy?

-- Coney O'Hare <https://www.dialup4less.com/~aloe/tv/entertainment.html>