comedy series<\/a> called MeeMaw. <\/p>\n![\"Roseanne](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/b28ed9ba9a1d983f5616875edeabc86c53c1533fed8ae65213444239b3cede00.jpeg\")
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Roseanne Barr\u2019s return to the entertainment industry won\u2019t be without its controversy after she was banished for a 2018 racist tweet. \u00a0Instagram\/@officialroseannebarr<\/p>\n
MeeMaw, an eight-episode comedy shot in Austin, Texas already features plenty of big names including Randy Quaid, Drea de Matteo, Omar\u00a0Gooding and Doug Jones. <\/p>\n
The show will feature appearances from Jon Lovitz, Tony Hinchcliffe and Kim Congdon. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s every bit as revolutionary as The Roseanne Show, if not more, and my work has improved with time,\u201d Barr told Page Six. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want everybody who disagrees in a family to sit in the same room and just laugh and go, \u2019Yeah, maybe I was an a–hole that time. Well, you were an a–hole this time. Oh, we\u2019re all a–holes. Let\u2019s get a beer.\u201d<\/p>\n
In MeeMaw, Barr plays the matriarch of a \u201cmixed-race family of preppers in Texas\u201d who is on a quest to \u201cthrow her granddaughter the most fantastic bat mitzvah Texas has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barr\u2019s project is sure to cause controversy after she was banished from the entertainment industry because of a 2018 tweet. <\/p>\n
In the tweet Barr referred to former Michelle Obama aide Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the \u201cMuslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes\u201d. <\/p>\n
At the time, Barr apologised to Jarrett and deleted her Twitter (now X) account.\u00a0Barr says she didn\u2019t know then that Jarrett was African American. <\/p>\n
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The Roseanne reboot was cancelled after Barr\u2019s tweet and a spin-off series The Conners was ordered without her involement. \u00a0ABC<\/p>\n
Despite her Roseanne revival being a ratings hit, finishing its first season in a number one slot, Disney quickly let go of Barr. <\/p>\n
While the Roseanne reboot was scrapped ABC ordered a spin-off titled The Conners that premiered in October 2018. <\/p>\n
Original co-stars John Goodman<\/a>, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, and Lecy Goranson returned for the new series, while Barr had no creative or financial involvement.<\/p>\nOn the show, her character Roseanne Conner was written off as having died from an accidental opioid overdose. <\/p>\n
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