BUT IT'S OKAY FOR JOY REID TO STILL BE ON AIR FOR LYING HER ASS OFF ABOUT WHAT SHE SAID. At least Roseanne owned it. Sick of this double treatment bullshit.
I cancelled Roseanne.
I cancelled Roseanne.
“As Paul Lee Era Ends at ABC, Channing Dungey Steps Into a No-Win Job” reads the pragmatic headline in the Hollywood Reporter’s analysis of the major shake-up at ABC that occurred Wednesday. Pragmatic, because tenures in these jobs can be short, and victories elusive. You can’t please everyone all the time, but the job of entertainment president demands that you please everybody all the time.
But a “no win?” In fact, Dungey, 46, becomes the first African-American in TV history to run one of the major broadcast entertainment divisions. That fact alone is hugely important, but why exactly? After all, ABC already had (and has) primetime’s most diverse slate under her predecessor, Paul Lee, while Thursdays are the exclusive domain of one of TV’s most prolific and successful African-American producers, Shonda Rhimes. Viola Davis – star of an ABC Shondaland series – became the first African-American woman in history to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama just last September.
But diversity – on-screen and off – very much remains a seething, divisive issue in Hollywood. Dungey’s appointment comes just 10 days before the arrival of one of the most contentious and visible of those issues, the Oscars – nominating a slate of only white actors for the second year in a row. As carriage network, ABC is closely, intimately, associated with the world’s most important and popular awards show (and the Oscars are a show). The Motion Picture Academy also now has a president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, who is African-American – charged with boosting diversity in the Academy and among nominees. As Isaacs has learned, change doesn’t happen overnight.
https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/why-channing-dungey-s-appointment-as-abc-entertainment-group-chief-matters-analysis-1.11484846
ABC CEO
I back Roseanne. This lady is evil and needs to rot in prison.
BREAKING: Joy Reid, who lied about a series of homophobic posts, says Roseanne Barr should be fired for her remarks on controversial ex-Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett.
I'm so sick of the double standard. This is sickening and disheartening.