Can ‘Roseanne’ Survive Without Roseanne?

Robert Thompson, Trustee Professor and director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture in the Newhouse School, was quoted in the Reuters story “Deaths and disputes: When the TV show must go on.”

Thompson, an expert in television programming, comments on whether canceled TV show, Roseanne will be able to continue without host star, Roseanne Barr. He states, “If you lose a main character, or someone walks out, or there is a controversy, and the fix means it is still a funny or compelling show, then most people will forget very quickly.”