Hot on the heels of picking up drama projects from Jason Katims and Dick Wolf, NBC has green-lit three new comedy pilots.
Downwardly Mobile, written and executive-produced by Roseanne Barr, will bring the Roseanne star back to series television as...
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Many women dread menopause. Roseanne Barr is not one of those women.
"Menopause had indeed made me into a nicer person," the 59-year-old former sitcom star writes in a column for Newsweek. "After menopause, I discovered the joy of drinking wine, and of sinking deeply into writing and time alone. These things replaced the sex drive I had thoroughly cruised down as a youth, exploring one dead end, detour, and unpaved dirty road after...
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NBC has snagged Roseanne Barr's comeback sitcom Downwardly Mobile, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Check out all the familiar faces returning to TV this year
Like Roseanne, the comedy is about a blue-collar family — this time living in a mobile home community. Barr co-created the project with longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent and former ...
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Last Friday, Rosie O'Donnell composed some poetry about her return to television. Included are lines about how she had blown the deadline for publishing the poem online, as well as observations about the people she met that same night while eating dinner at Gibsons Steak House in Chicago.
As for what's to come on her new talk show, she wrote only this: "as I prepare to return / 2 something much bigger than a show / I am reminded how lucky I am / have always been / thank u oprah / here we go." O'Donnell says, so far, she feels no pressure. "I feel nothing but privilege, truthfully," she told reporters during a conference call Wednesday. ""For Oprah to not only ask me to be on ...
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It looks like Lifetime no longer wants to be in bed with Roseanne Barr and her nuts.
The cable network has opted not to pick up a second season of her reality show, Roseanne's Nuts, according to Barr herself. "Roseanne's Nuts has been canceled...
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