
After bringing one 1990s ABC sitcom star, Home Improvement‘s Tim Allen, back to primetime with a new comedy series, 20th Century Fox TV is looking to do the same for another, Roseanne Barr. The studio has signed a script deal with the former Roseanne star for a half-hour comedy she will co-write with her boyfriend Johnny Argent. The project, titled Downwardly Mobile, will explore the same territory as Roseanne, revolving around an optimistic blue-collar family living in hard times. Search is underway for a showrunner to board the project before it’s taken out to the networks. Barr and Argent are executive producing with Steven Greener who also executive produces Barr’s Lifetime reality series Roseanne’s Nuts.
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We,the Real Women of the world,love,love,love Roseanne.She is the QUEEN and should be the President…!!! We support her in anything and everything she wants to do…if RB says it…it needs to be said..Carry on RB..carry on..!!!
No John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf,Jackie Harris, Sara Gilbert no show. Sorry Rosie, love ya like a sis, but you can’t carry it by yourself. This’ll sink like a stone without at least John Goodman. And I could be wrong, but rumors are, from the way you abused him, I doubt there is a snowball’s chance in HI’s he’d join you. But who knows? As it stands I think if the whole crew–ALL OF THEM (except that horrible HORRIBLE Sandra Bernhard and “Arnie”)–returned, a new Roseanne would have a 150% chance. Anything less and to venture back “Roseanne’s (Truly) Nuts”.