Roseanne Barr has great plans about returning with ‘Silly’ series

Roseanne Barr wants to return to television.

The 72-year-old actress, who was sacked from her namesake ABC sitcom in 2018, hopes to return to television with a fresh new comedy series she co-wrote with Roseanne producer Allan Stephan.

She revealed to Variety that her upcoming project will span four to six episodes, best described as a blend of The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos. The new series will purportedly feature an Alabama farmer who is “saving the United States from drug gangs and China” while growing and selling narcotics like cannabis and hallucinogenic mushrooms.

“It’s stupid and out there.” It will contain very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing,” Barr stated. “I live on a farm with my daughter, her husband, and six children. They have goats roaming around their house and other areas. It’s based on my experiences as a farmer in Hawaii.

“They save America via firearms, the Bible, petty criminality, and drunkenness.” It’s kind of like the Coen brothers thing,” she said, saying that the new series will include a family akin to the Conners from Roseanne.

In 2018, ABC dismissed Barr from Roseanne after she compared former President Barack Obama’s advisor Valerie Jarrett to an “ape” in a now-deleted tweet. Since then, she has claimed that she was unaware Jarrett was Black and that she was on Ambien when she tweeted the comment.

Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment at the time, issued a statement addressing the matter.

“Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,” the comedian tweeted.

Barr informed the publication that she was marketing the series around to several networks, but when asked if she would return to ABC if they were interested in developing the program, she responded with an emphatic “F— no.”

Despite her uncertainty about whether another network would pick it up, she expressed, “I don’t care either way.”

“I’d like to get paid handsomely to bring another s—f—ing network back from doom, as I’ve done twice for ABC,” she said more broadly. “However, I don’t see how they could avoid interfering with my business.” If not, I’ll just go somewhere else and upload it on my own website.”

The actress also stated that she feels the American public wants to see more conservative storylines on television, which contradicts the stuff Hollywood has produced in recent years.

“Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people,” Barr said to the audience. “If they want to survive, they should cooperate with the new president [Donald Trump].” The American people elected him in a landslide.

She advised me to contact them and make money, but she didn’t know if they did because they’re ideologues rather than businesspeople. “What shocks me is the fact that they prefer to lose money and then explain that to the shareholders, who apparently have no problem with it.”