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THE ROSEANNE ROSEANNADANNA SHOW
April 1, 2018  | By David Bianculli

NBC, 7:30 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: No sooner did the mammoth ratings come back for the premiere episode of ABC’s reboot of Roseanne than networks scrambled to launch their own instant nostalgia series – as close to Roseanne as possible. NBC is first out of the gate, thanks to Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, who had both the vision and the contacts (not to mention the broadcast rights) to revive, almost instantly, TV’s second most famous Roseanne: The wild-haired, cranky news commentator Roseanne Roseannadanna, played so memorably, during the original-cast years of SNL, by Gilda Radner. For this revival – which, like Garry Shandling’s The Larry Sanders Show, follows its titular star off camera as well as on TV – the part of Roseanne goes to Emma Stone, who already had played her once for Michaels and SNL, so was ready, as well as willing, to go for this instant sitcom series, which NBC is launching just before tonight’s live concert version of Jesus Christ Superstar.

 
 
 
 
 
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