Exclusive: The New Adventures Of Old Christine alumna Tricia O’Kelley has been cast in Roseanne Barr’s NBC comedy pilot Downwardly Mobile. She replaces Eureka star Salli Richardson who was originally cast in the role. Co-created by Barr, John Argent and showrunner Eric Gilliland, the multicamera Downwardly Mobile stars Barr as Rose, the proprietor of a mobile home park and surrogate mother to the unique people who live there in a challenging economy. O’Kelley will play Mrs. Denby whose husband (Greg Cromer), a hedge fund guy who recently lost everything in a Ponzi scheme, brought her to the trailer park so they start fresh at the bottom. Miserable in her new surroundings, Mrs. Denby becomes Rose’s foil. The recasting was done after the pilot’s run-through this afternoon. I hear that Richardson, who has an extensive drama resume but hasn’t done comedy series, didn’t feel...
- 4/14/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Eureka star Salli Richardson and Greg Cromer have joined Roseanne Barr’s NBC comedy pilot Downwardly Mobile. Co-created by Barr, John Argent and showrunner Eric Gilliland, the multicamera Downwardly Mobile stars Barr as Rose, the proprietor of a mobile home park and surrogate mother to the unique people who live there in a challenging economy. Barr’s Roseanne co-star John Goodman co-stars as Rose’s buddy Buzz. Cromer will play Mr. Denby, a loveable hedge fund guy who recently lost everything in a Ponzi scheme. He’s taken his wife, Mrs. Denby (Richardson), on a “vacation” — to the trailer park — in the attempt to start fresh at the bottom. Miserable in her new surroundings, Mrs. Denby becomes Rose’s foil. This marks the first comedy series project for Richardson, repped by Innovative and manager Craig Dorfman. She spent the past five years on the Syfy series Eureka where she played Allison Blake.
- 3/20/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Romy Rosemont and Mary Birdsong have been cast in Roseanne Barr’s NBC comedy pilot Downwardly Mobile. Co-created by Barr, her boyfriend John Argent and showrunner Eric Gilliland, the multicamera Downwardly Mobile stars Barr as Rose, the proprietor of a mobile home park and surrogate mother to the unique people who live there in a challenging economy. Birdsong, repped by UTA and manager Stacy Abrams, will play Kathie Lee, quintessential “trailer trash” who runs the pizza/beer joint in the park. Rosemont, repped by Domain and Main Title, will play Sheila, a resident of the mobile park who works as a nurse on the “death floor” at a nursing home. The pilot expands Rosemont’s relationship with 20th TV; she also recurs on the studio’s Fox musical dramedy Glee as Finn’s mother.
- 3/6/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
John Goodman is in final talks to reunite with Roseanne Barr on NBC's Downwardly Mobile. The pair previously appeared together on ABC sitcom Roseanne from 1988 to 1997. Goodman is now likely to join Barr's new comedy pilot, which was co-created by the comedian, John Argent and Eric Gilliland, according to Deadline. Downwardly Mobile will star Barr as the owner of a mobile home park who acts as a surrogate mother to her residents. The Big Lebowski star Goodman will play her friend and co-worker. He has (more)...
- 2/13/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Nearly 15 years after "Roseanne" left the air, its two leads are joining forces again for another comedy pilot.
John Goodman is in final negotiations to join Roseanne Barr in her NBC project "Downwardly Mobile." Rather than playing husband and wife this time, they'll play employer and employee: Barr's character runs a mobile home park and is a matriarch to its residents, and Goodman would play a guy who works at the park and is friends with her, according to Deadline, which first reported the news.
Barr is also a co-creator of the show, which she's executive producing with boyfriend John Argent and co-writer Eric Gilliland, a writer and producer on "Roseanne" for several seasons.
Goodman has had a recurring part on "Community" this season and also co-stars in "The Artist." His other recent TV credits include "Damages" and "Treme," but he hasn't been a regular on a network series since...
John Goodman is in final negotiations to join Roseanne Barr in her NBC project "Downwardly Mobile." Rather than playing husband and wife this time, they'll play employer and employee: Barr's character runs a mobile home park and is a matriarch to its residents, and Goodman would play a guy who works at the park and is friends with her, according to Deadline, which first reported the news.
Barr is also a co-creator of the show, which she's executive producing with boyfriend John Argent and co-writer Eric Gilliland, a writer and producer on "Roseanne" for several seasons.
Goodman has had a recurring part on "Community" this season and also co-stars in "The Artist." His other recent TV credits include "Damages" and "Treme," but he hasn't been a regular on a network series since...
- 2/11/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Roseanne co-stars Roseanne Barr and John Goodman together again. I’ve learned that, after lengthy negations, Goodman is in final negotiations to join Barr’s new sitcom, the NBC pilot Downwardly Mobile. Co-created by Barr, her boyfriend John Argent and Eric Gilliland, who will serve as showrunner, the multicamera Downwardly Mobile stars Barr as the proprietor of a mobile home park and surrogate mother to all of the unique people who live there in a challenging economy. Goodman will play a man who works at the park and has a buddy relationship with Barr’s character. Barr and Gilliland wrote the script and are executive producing with Argent. Goodman’s casting completes a big Roseanne reunion on the pilot. Gilliland is a former Roseanne executive producer. Gail Mancuso, who spent seven years on the ABC comedy and got her start as a director there, is directing the pilot. And Downwardly...
- 2/10/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
After nearly 15 years, NBC is staging a Roseanne reunion. John Goodman will co-star in Downwardly Mobile, the NBC comedy pilot starring Roseanne Barr as the outspoken proprietor and den mother to an array of characters at a mobile home park. Goodman, who played Roseanne's loyal husband Dan Conner for nine seasons on the ABC comedy from 1988-1997, will play one of the guys who work at the park. Barr is writing and executive producing the multicamera pilot, from 20th Television, alongside Eric Gilliland, a former writer and executive producer on Roseanne. John Argent, Barr's boyfriend who appeared
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- 2/6/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When there’s two rival Beauty and the Beast projects, you gotta think a trend is forming. Following the success of ABC’s top-rated new drama Once Upon a Time (and to a lesser extent, NBC’s Grimm), broadcast-network pilot season seems to have a greater than usual number of projects with fantasy or supernatural elements — along with a ton of shows about federal agents, everyday cops, doctors, conspiracies, and cults. The magical-realism trend is partly a continuation from last year’s pilot season. This time around, however, there seems to be fewer head-turning TV reboots ideas in the mix...
- 2/2/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
NBC has picked up three comedies to pilot, including Roseanne Barr's Downwardly Mobile. From former Roseanne exec producer Eric Gilliland, Downwardly Mobile marks Barr's return to series television as the proprietor of a mobile home park and surrogate mother to all of the people who live there during a challenging economic time. Barr will write and executive produce the 20th Television multicamera project alongside Gilliland, with John Argent also on board as an Ep. In addition, the fourth-place network is moving forward with Go On, from Friends and Joey writer Scott Silveri and Universal Television. The single-camera comedy
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- 1/24/2012
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Roseanne Barr has joked that menopause calmed her notoriously fiery temper. The comic has penned a new column on ageing for Newsweek, in which she reveals that she's only recently learned to enjoy life's simple pleasures. Barr wrote: "Menopause had indeed made me into a nicer person. After menopause, I discovered the joy of drinking wine, and of sinking deeply into writing and time alone. "These things replaced the sex drive I had thoroughly cruised down as a youth, exploring one dead end, detour, and unpaved dirty road after another." Barr also credited her partner Johnny Argent will helping her to overcome her "fear" of death. "I no longer fear moving on to a better existence than this (more)...
- 11/23/2011
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Los Angeles, California (X17online) - Her reality show Roseanne's Nuts was cancelled by Lifetime after one season, but Roseanne Barr is bouncing back with a new scripted production deal. NBC picked up Downwardly Mobile for a pilot deal, according to Deadline. The multi-camera sitcom focuses on a working class family living in a mobile home community with their friends, all of whom are struggling in today's economy. Barr co-created the show with boyfriend John Argent and former Roseanne executive producer Eric Gilliland. This comes fourteen years after NBC passed on Roseanne, the working class sitcom that later made a successful nine year run on ABC. Downwardly Mobile is in the same familiar territory as Barr's last scripted run, as the actress feels society is in as similar a place as it was twenty years ago.
- 10/10/2011
- x17online.com
Actress Roseanne Barr has been given a big boost in her bid to make a TV sitcom comeback - network executives at NBC have picked her new show up for broadcast.
The star's reality show Roseanne's Nuts was axed last month due to low ratings but she now has a reason to celebrate after her latest project, Downwardly Mobile, has found a home on air, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The multi-camera sitcom, which is set in a mobile home community, will be written by Barr's longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent and former Roseanne executive producer Eric Gilliland.
Comedienne Barr won numerous awards for her role on the long-running show Roseanne, which was recently declared one of the 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time by TV Guide.
The star's reality show Roseanne's Nuts was axed last month due to low ratings but she now has a reason to celebrate after her latest project, Downwardly Mobile, has found a home on air, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The multi-camera sitcom, which is set in a mobile home community, will be written by Barr's longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent and former Roseanne executive producer Eric Gilliland.
Comedienne Barr won numerous awards for her role on the long-running show Roseanne, which was recently declared one of the 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time by TV Guide.
- 10/10/2011
- WENN
Roseanne Barr's first try at sitcom stardom since "Roseanne" left the air at 1997 will be with NBC.
The network has given a script commitment, with a penalty attached if a pilot isn't made, to "Downwardly Mobile," which Barr co-created with boyfriend Johnny Argent, the showbiz trade papers report. The comedy revolves around Barr's character, her family and the fellow residents of the mobile home park where they live.
Barr, Argent and fellow executive producer Steven Greener ("Roseanne's Nuts") set up "Downwardly Mobile" at 20th Century Fox TV in August. The studio then set out to hire a showrunner and found one in Eric Gilliland, a writer and producer on "Roseanne" for several seasons. His credits also include "My Boys," "Mr. Sunshine" and "The Wonder Years."
Comedies featuring stars of past hits seem to be in vogue this year. Tim Allen's new series "Last Man Standing" premieres Tuesday (Oct.
The network has given a script commitment, with a penalty attached if a pilot isn't made, to "Downwardly Mobile," which Barr co-created with boyfriend Johnny Argent, the showbiz trade papers report. The comedy revolves around Barr's character, her family and the fellow residents of the mobile home park where they live.
Barr, Argent and fellow executive producer Steven Greener ("Roseanne's Nuts") set up "Downwardly Mobile" at 20th Century Fox TV in August. The studio then set out to hire a showrunner and found one in Eric Gilliland, a writer and producer on "Roseanne" for several seasons. His credits also include "My Boys," "Mr. Sunshine" and "The Wonder Years."
Comedies featuring stars of past hits seem to be in vogue this year. Tim Allen's new series "Last Man Standing" premieres Tuesday (Oct.
- 10/10/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Though she is no longer “nuts,” it looks like Roseanne Barr isn’t done with her television comeback.
The raucous comedienne, whose reality series Roseanne’s Nuts was cancelled by Lifetime last month, has sold a new multi-camera comedy to NBC, according to our sister site Deadline.com. News of the show, called Downwardly Mobile, first surfaced in August, but the deal with the Peacock net brings it one step closer to reality.
Barr created the new series, which will focus on a blue-collar family living in a trailer park, with boyfriend John Argent and former Roseanne executive producer Eric Gilliland.
The raucous comedienne, whose reality series Roseanne’s Nuts was cancelled by Lifetime last month, has sold a new multi-camera comedy to NBC, according to our sister site Deadline.com. News of the show, called Downwardly Mobile, first surfaced in August, but the deal with the Peacock net brings it one step closer to reality.
Barr created the new series, which will focus on a blue-collar family living in a trailer park, with boyfriend John Argent and former Roseanne executive producer Eric Gilliland.
- 10/10/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Filed under: TV News
Roseanne Barr's new sitcom has been snapped up by NBC. The series, 'Downwardly Mobile,' features a group of family and friends living in a trailer park.
According to Deadline, Barr co-created the sitcom with her boyfriend John Argent and former 'Roseanne' executive producer Eric Gilliland. NBC has purchased the comedy with a script commitment and penalty. What's that mean? They have to pay up if the project doesn't go forward.
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Roseanne Barr's new sitcom has been snapped up by NBC. The series, 'Downwardly Mobile,' features a group of family and friends living in a trailer park.
According to Deadline, Barr co-created the sitcom with her boyfriend John Argent and former 'Roseanne' executive producer Eric Gilliland. NBC has purchased the comedy with a script commitment and penalty. What's that mean? They have to pay up if the project doesn't go forward.
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- 10/10/2011
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
Roseanne Barr's new multi-camera sitcom "Downwardly Mobile" has been purchased by NBC with a script commitment plus penalty. Barr co-created the project, about a working class family and friends living in a mobile home community, with boyfriend John Argent and Eric Gilliland, who also worked on "Roseanne" for four years before departing in its eighth season. Barr will star in the series and Gilliland will serve as showrunner. The project came out of a script deal Barr made back in August with 20th Century Fox TV, which then shopped the resulting idea to networks. If picked up to series, this would be...
- 10/10/2011
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
In 1987, NBC had first crack at a working class family sitcom starring then-up-and-coming standup comedian Roseanne Barr. Legendary NBC programmer Brandon Tartikoff famously passed, and the project landed at ABC where it went to series, Roseanne, which ran for 9 years. Twenty four years later, another sitcom about a lower middle class family starring Barr hit the market, and this time NBC and its new programming chief Bob Greenblatt jumped on it. The network bought the multi-camera comedy, titled Downwardly Mobile, with a script commitment plus penalty. Co-created by Barr, her boyfriend John Argent and former Roseanne executive producer Eric Gilliland, who will serve as showrunner, the ensemble comedy revolves around a family and friends living in a mobile home community. It is produced by 20th Century Fox TV as it stems from a script deal the studio made with Barr in August. Barr, Argent and Gilliland will executive produce with Steven Greener,...
- 10/10/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Perhaps Roseanne's Nuts just made for a shell of a series. Lifetime canceled the reality show after one season after a strong premiere (1.63 million viewers) gave way to a mass exodus of eyeballs. The show followed Roseanne Barr's oddest foray into domesticity yet—her recently adopted existence as a macadamia nut farmer in Hawaii, along with boyfriend John Argent and her son Jake. The series' last episode was Sept. 16, but, reading that synopsis over again...aren't you kind of sorry you didn't watch?...
- 9/22/2011
- E! Online
Would you say that you found "Roseanne's Nuts" unappetizing?
Pardon, we jest, but the triple entendre title of Roseanne Barr's reality series is hard to write about seriously -- make that was.
Lifetime has canceled the series after just one season, according to the star, who posted the news on Twitter on Sept. 21.
"Roseanne's Nuts has been canceled," she writes. "Thanks everyone for watching!"
The unscripted series followed Barr and longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent on their Hawaiian farm, where they manage 40 acres of macadamia nut and livestock.
Barr shouldn't be too shaken up by the decision, though. The 58-year-old comedian, who may or may not be running for president, has new series in the works at 20th Century Fox TV.
Pardon, we jest, but the triple entendre title of Roseanne Barr's reality series is hard to write about seriously -- make that was.
Lifetime has canceled the series after just one season, according to the star, who posted the news on Twitter on Sept. 21.
"Roseanne's Nuts has been canceled," she writes. "Thanks everyone for watching!"
The unscripted series followed Barr and longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent on their Hawaiian farm, where they manage 40 acres of macadamia nut and livestock.
Barr shouldn't be too shaken up by the decision, though. The 58-year-old comedian, who may or may not be running for president, has new series in the works at 20th Century Fox TV.
- 9/22/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Los Angeles, California (X17online) - Roseanne Barr's reality show, Roseanne's Nuts, has been dropped by Lifetime after just one season. "Roseanne’s Nuts has been canceled. Thanks everyone for watching!" the actress, 58, Tweeted Wednesday. The show, following the lives of Barr, her son Jake Pentland and partner Johnny Argent, around their macadamia nut and farm in Hawaii. The premiere drew in 1.3 million viewers in July, but it had just half those numbers when the 16-episode run ended. Barr is currently working on a scripted comedy called Downwardly Mobile with Argent.
- 9/22/2011
- x17online.com
Roseanne Barr's reality TV show about her Hawaii farm has been axed after just one season on air.
The actress invited a camera crew to capture her life on a macadamia nut farm, where she raises goats and sheep with her partner Johnny Argent.
But bosses at U.S. TV network Lifetime have decided not to continue with a second series of the programme due to disappointing viewing figures.
Roseanne took to her Twitter.com page on Wednesday to announce the news, writing, "Roseanne's Nuts has been cancelled. Thanks everyone for watching!"
The comedienne still has another small screen project on the go - she is working on new sitcom Downwardly Mobile, about a dysfunctional working class family.
The actress invited a camera crew to capture her life on a macadamia nut farm, where she raises goats and sheep with her partner Johnny Argent.
But bosses at U.S. TV network Lifetime have decided not to continue with a second series of the programme due to disappointing viewing figures.
Roseanne took to her Twitter.com page on Wednesday to announce the news, writing, "Roseanne's Nuts has been cancelled. Thanks everyone for watching!"
The comedienne still has another small screen project on the go - she is working on new sitcom Downwardly Mobile, about a dysfunctional working class family.
- 9/22/2011
- WENN
Roseanne Barr's reality series Roseanne's Nuts gets the shaft from Lifetime after just one season. Lifetime has killed off the Roseanne Barr reality series, as stated by Barr on her @TheRealRoseanne Twitter feed, reports Deadline. She said that “Roseanne’s Nuts has been cancelled, thanks everyone for watching!” The show started with a 0.7 rating among 18-49 year-olds but went down to 0.3 and was sent to the Friday at 10:00 p.m. low-traffic spot. The last season of the show wrapped last Friday. Quite funnily enough, on the official site under "About Roseanne's Nuts" we can find this: “Where in the world is Roseanne Barr?” Well...not on Lifetime anymore, clearly. This is what the series was about (Courtesy Lifetime's Official Roseanne's Nuts Site): Viewers of “Roseanne’s Nuts” will see Barr, who, after tiring of living in frenzied Los Angeles and everything associated with the city, abandons Southern...
- 9/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Roseanne Barr's reality series Roseanne's Nuts gets the shaft from Lifetime after just one season. Lifetime has killed off the Roseanne Barr reality series, as stated by Barr on her @TheRealRoseanne Twitter feed, reports Deadline. She said that “Roseanne’s Nuts has been cancelled, thanks everyone for watching!” The show started with a 0.7 rating among 18-49 year-olds but went down to 0.3 and was sent to the Friday at 10:00 p.m. low-traffic spot. The last season of the show wrapped last Friday. Quite funnily enough, on the official site under "About Roseanne's Nuts" we can find this: “Where in the world is Roseanne Barr?” Well...not on Lifetime anymore, clearly. This is what the series was about (Courtesy Lifetime's Official Roseanne's Nuts Site): Viewers of “Roseanne’s Nuts” will see Barr, who, after tiring of living in frenzied Los Angeles and everything associated with the city, abandons Southern...
- 9/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Filed under: TV Replay
Roseanne Barr's story is one that might inspire young girls like the ones she was charged with speaking to on Wednesday's episode of 'Roseanne's Nuts' (Wednesdays, 9Pm on Lifetime). But according to her boyfriend Johnny Argent, the first draft of that story probably looks pretty ugly.
Argent tried to help Roseanne with the speech, but she resisted him much of the way. "I'm giving a speech tonight to girls, and who better to help me write that speech than a 62-year-old cranky curmudgeon such as John Argent," she said.
Argent wondered how Roseanne fought her way to the top in show business with such poor writing skills. "Sometimes when I look over Roseanne's early drafts of her writing I think, how could somebody that smart come up with this?" he said. "I'm learning disabled, for sure, replied Roseanne. "But you know, that's why I'm smart.
Roseanne Barr's story is one that might inspire young girls like the ones she was charged with speaking to on Wednesday's episode of 'Roseanne's Nuts' (Wednesdays, 9Pm on Lifetime). But according to her boyfriend Johnny Argent, the first draft of that story probably looks pretty ugly.
Argent tried to help Roseanne with the speech, but she resisted him much of the way. "I'm giving a speech tonight to girls, and who better to help me write that speech than a 62-year-old cranky curmudgeon such as John Argent," she said.
Argent wondered how Roseanne fought her way to the top in show business with such poor writing skills. "Sometimes when I look over Roseanne's early drafts of her writing I think, how could somebody that smart come up with this?" he said. "I'm learning disabled, for sure, replied Roseanne. "But you know, that's why I'm smart.
- 8/25/2011
- by Nick Zaino
- Aol TV.
[1] The steady stream of television news continues today with a couple of interesting announcements. After the jump, read about the "near miss" of a television adaptation of Vertigo comic book series Dmz, Rosanne Barr's return to sitcom television, and a fifth-season renewal for True Blood. Earlier this week, comic book writer Brian Wood wrote on his blog [2] about the scrapping of a television adaptation of his Vertigo comic series Dmz. We also had a near miss with setting Dmz up as a television show, at a verrrry respectable network, and its a bit crushing. I had hoped the whole new “DC Entertainment” meant they’d be better about this sort of thing… and this deal seemed like a gift from heaven… but apparently not. While it's possible that Wood will be able to put together another deal for a live-action adaptation at some point in the future, it seems...
- 8/12/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Roseanne Barr has more than once bemoaned the state of comedy on television recently, and specifically noted the fact that sitcoms about working-class people have all but disappeared from the broadcast networks.
She's out to change that. The former star of and creative force behind "Roseanne" has a comedy project in the works at 20th Century Fox TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It's called "Downwardly Mobile," and while details are few at the moment, the Hr says it will be in a similar vein to "Roseanne" as it follows a family that struggles to make ends meet. Barr and her boyfriend, Johnny Argent, will executive produce with Steven Greener, an exec producer of her current Lifetime unscripted series "Roseanne's Nuts."
The project doesn't have a writer/showrunner attached yet; once that happens it will go out to bid at networks, the Hr says. In the meantime, Barr has been...
She's out to change that. The former star of and creative force behind "Roseanne" has a comedy project in the works at 20th Century Fox TV, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It's called "Downwardly Mobile," and while details are few at the moment, the Hr says it will be in a similar vein to "Roseanne" as it follows a family that struggles to make ends meet. Barr and her boyfriend, Johnny Argent, will executive produce with Steven Greener, an exec producer of her current Lifetime unscripted series "Roseanne's Nuts."
The project doesn't have a writer/showrunner attached yet; once that happens it will go out to bid at networks, the Hr says. In the meantime, Barr has been...
- 8/11/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Roseanne Barr is going to have an awfully busy year ahead of her. In addition to running for president of the United States of America and maintaining all the upkeep that comes with running a macadamia nut farm, the Emmy-winning actress/comedienne is also finally making her long-anticipated return to prime-time television.
20th Century Fox Television confirmed to EW that Barr has a deal in place for a new sitcom called Downwardly Mobile, which she will write and star in. Barr will work with her longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent on the project, as well as Roseanne’s Nuts executive producer Steven Greener,...
20th Century Fox Television confirmed to EW that Barr has a deal in place for a new sitcom called Downwardly Mobile, which she will write and star in. Barr will work with her longtime boyfriend Johnny Argent on the project, as well as Roseanne’s Nuts executive producer Steven Greener,...
- 8/11/2011
- by Aly Semigran
- EW.com - PopWatch
Filed under: TV News
Roseanne Barr is heading back to scripted TV. The comedian and current star of reality show 'Roseanne's Nuts' is working on a new blue-collar sitcom.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Barr and her boyfriend/reality TV co-star Johnny Argent are working on the project, currently titled 'Downwardly Mobile,' about a family living in tough economic hardship. The project's home is 20th Century Fox.
'Downwardly Mobile' would be Barr's first sitcom since 'Roseanne' ended in 1997. Since then, Barr has had a talk show, a best-selling book and now a reality series on Lifetime.
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Roseanne Barr is heading back to scripted TV. The comedian and current star of reality show 'Roseanne's Nuts' is working on a new blue-collar sitcom.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Barr and her boyfriend/reality TV co-star Johnny Argent are working on the project, currently titled 'Downwardly Mobile,' about a family living in tough economic hardship. The project's home is 20th Century Fox.
'Downwardly Mobile' would be Barr's first sitcom since 'Roseanne' ended in 1997. Since then, Barr has had a talk show, a best-selling book and now a reality series on Lifetime.
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- 8/11/2011
- by Chris Harnick
- Aol TV.
After bringing one 1990s ABC sitcom star, Home Improvement's Tim Allen, back to primetime with a new comedy series, 20th Century Fox TV is looking to do the same for another, Roseanne Barr. The studio has signed a script deal with the former Roseanne star for a half-hour comedy she will co-write with her boyfriend Johnny Argent. The project, titled Downwardly Mobile, will explore the same territory as Roseanne, revolving around an optimistic blue-collar family living in hard times. Search is underway for a showrunner to board the project before it's taken out to the networks. Barr and Argent are executive producing with Steven Greener who also executive produces Barr's Lifetime reality series Roseanne's Nuts.
- 8/11/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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