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Commercial TV’s rare leadership on Roseanne is a breath of fresh air

Network Ten's swift decision to dump the rebooted Roseanne shows rare leadership, demonstrating that, for some, there is a clear line even money can’t cross.

1 Jun 2018 12:00

Liz Giuffre

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Roseanne Barr at the Roseanne premiere at Walt Disney Studios on March 23, 2018. Photo credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com

Earlier this year, ABC America successfully relaunched 1980s sitcom Roseanne. The show’s 2018 return was funny and found a very large, free-to-air broadcast audience. Indeed it was a sitcom revival that seemed to return an audience to broadcast TV itself.

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Liz Giuffre

About the Author

Liz Giuffre is a Sydney based music and media writer who enjoys writing for street press and academic journals in (almost) equal measures. She is currently writing a PhD focused on Australian Music Media at Macquarie University and contributes to Drum Media regularly. She would be a very, very happy girl if she gots to interview Neil Finn just once more before she dies (that would make interview number three!)