That's gonna cost ABC some bucks

Unless, of course, the advertisers were pulling out already.

ABC canceled its hit sitcom "Roseanne" on Tuesday after the show's biggest star, Roseanne Barr, went on a racist Twitter rant.

"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said in a statement.

Disney CEO Bob Iger added on Twitter that "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing."

The cancellation stunned Hollywood. The revival of "Roseanne" premiered to huge ratings just three months ago. Pre-production was already underway on a second season, which was scheduled for Tuesdays at 8 p.m. this fall.

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Barr's talent agency, ICM Partners, dropped her following her tweets.

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Barr went on A tweetstorm Tuesday morning, attacking Valerie Jarrett, Chelsea Clinton and George Soros.

ABC went silent for several hours while deciding what to do. By late morning on the West Coast, executives had decided to boot the reboot.

When asked why ABC ultimately decided to cancel the show, a Disney source said, "It's a question of right and wrong. And it's a question of our company's values."

Reactions to the decision were overwhelming and largely positive.

Maybe it takes a while for the Magaheads to get the info from Fox. Waiting for the "Unfair!" tweet when His Lordship sees this.

About 18 million live viewers watched the premiere episode in March.

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Later, the show saw its audience come back down to earth, but its finale still nabbed roughly 10 million live viewers, a huge achievement for ABC.

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President Trump praised the debut saying, "Over 18 million people! And it was about us!" The President also called Barr to congratulate her.

"Us". Everything is about him.

Actress Emma Kenney, who played Roseanne's granddaughter on the reboot, tweeted that she was in the process of quitting the show when she found out that it had been canceled.

About an hour and a half before the cancellation was announced one of the show's consulting producers, Wanda Sykes, said she was done with the show. "I will not be returning to @RoseanneOnABC," Sykes tweeted.

What was Wanda Sykes doing on a production that featured Roseanne Barr?

ABC was not entirely surprised by Tuesday's rant. After all, Barr is notorious for tweeting about pro-Trump conspiracy theories and other controversial topics.

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But even by her low standards, Tuesday's remarks were egregious.

In one of the tweets, she wrote, "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj."

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So bad that it isn't even actually a joke.

Sara Gilbert, who plays Barr's daughter on the ABC sitcom, tweeted that Barr's comments are "abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show."

Except for the STAR.

There's a bunch of actors who thought they were back in the money:

Hope they had some good contracts.

And...who's that token little black girl?

UPDATE:



I was thinking something very like that.



UPDATE 6/3:

TPM is reporting that ABC is considering the idea of dumping Roseanne but keeping the show.