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Roseanne after Roseanne: how the sitcom can carry on without her

There are myriad ways the show could be revived following its cancellation over Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets – but it might be better to leave it buried

Leaving aside the grubby root of the issue, or Roseanne Barr’s rampant determination to keep making it worse, the cancellation of Roseanne has left one hell of a mess.

A career is over, seemingly for ever. A television network is tens of millions of dollars out of pocket. A cast and crew are suddenly unemployed. The Roseanne writers, who started work on a new series the day the show was cancelled, are likely to be out of work and uncompensated for the season. It is, by all accounts, a terrible state of affairs.

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