Roseanne Barr wants to be back on TV.
The actress, 72, who was fired from her titular ABC sitcom in 2018, is hoping to return to television with a brand new comedy series sheâs written with Roseanne producer Allan Stephan.
She told Variety that her latest endeavor will be four to six episodes and is best described as âa cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos.â The new series will reportedly follow an Alabama farmer who is âsaving the United States from drug gangs and China,â though he also grows and sells drugs like cannabis and psychedelic mushrooms.
âItâs silly and out there. [It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing,â Barr explained. âI live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff. Itâs based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii.â
âThey save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism. Itâs kind of like the Coen brothers thing,â she added, noting that the new series will feature a family that will share similarities with the Conners from Roseanne.
In 2018, ABC fired Barr from Roseanne after she likened former President Barack Obamaâs advisor Valerie Jarrett to an âapeâ in a since-deleted tweet. Since then, sheâs claimed that she didnât know Jarrett was Black and that she was on Ambien while tweeting the statement.
At the time, president of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey addressed the controversy in a statement.
âRoseanneâs Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,â he wrote.
Barr told the outlet she was shopping the series around to different networks, but replied with resounding, âFâ no,â when asked if she would return to ABC if they were interested in developing the show.
Though she isnât sure if another network will pick it up, she said, âI donât give a fâ either way.â
âIâd like to get paid handsomely to bring another sâ fâing network back from doom as Iâve done twice for ABC,â she continued. âBut I just donât see how they would keep their nose out of my business. Weâll see. If not, Iâll just go somewhere else and put it on my own website.â
The actress also added that she believes the American public are eager to see more conservative stories on television, contrary to the content Hollywood has put out in recent years.
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âHollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people,â Barr said. âIf they want to survive, they should work with the new president [Donald Trump]. American people elected him in an overwhelming victory.â
âThey should get back in touch with [them] and make some money, which I donât know if they do or not âcause theyâve proven to be ideologues rather than [business people],â she continued. âWhat shocks me is the fact that they prefer to lose money and then explain that to the shareholders who apparently have no problem with that.â
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