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As has been the case with many hit 90s television shows, Roseanne is getting a reboot that’s set to air in 2018. However, it may be the first mainstream sitcom to discuss President Trump in a favorable light.
ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey announced on Monday that the show will talk about politics and culture of working class Americans in the same very honest way it did in the 1990s, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I don’t know whether Roseanne (Barr) will speak about Trump by name. But she’s going to speak very honestly,” Dungey said at the Banff World Media Festival.
Roseanne Barr as the show’s star, producer, and writer will have significant sway over the conversation and show’s direction. She’s been a very outspoken supporter of President Trump.
Every single attack on @POTUS is really a disguised attack on American voters who rejected Obama-Clinton-Bush’s bleeding of R treasury.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 20, 2017
While no one should expect the show or the rest of its stars including Sarah Gilbert and John Goodman, who are fairly liberal, to jump on the “Trump Train,” Barr will not allow her show to become a platform that slams the President on a weekly basis. Dungey suggests in her statement that it will give a voice to Trump voters.
“What the election revealed was that there’s parts of our country that didn’t feel heard, that they didn’t have a voice. When you look at how the polling data went in the run-up to the election, it was kind of a big surprise to many people that the election turned out as it did,” she continued.
In the most likely scenario, the Roseanne reboot will show what the struggle is like for multiple generations of working-class Americans given that the show will include Roseanne and Dan Connor, their children, and grandchildren.
Some will embrace the President’s ideas, some will oppose it, and the honest conversation may reflect America than anything else that has been on television in quite a long time.
