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Roseanne Barr is threatening us with another show because no one has learned a damned thing.

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Oh, lord, Roseanne Barr is threatening us with another show. “I’ve already been offered so many things and I almost already accepted one really good offer to go back on TV and I might do it. But we’ll see,” she said on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s podcast. And Barr still hasn’t apologized to Valerie Jarrett. SO HOW ABOUT WE COOL IT WITH THE ROSEANNE PITCHES UNTIL SHE DOES THE BARE FUCKING MINIMUM.

Roseanne also claims that she didn’t ask for anything in the spinoff negotiations because she’s such a goddamned hero.

Entertainment Weekly hosted a Breaking Bad reunion, ahead of their Comic-Con reunion, here are some of the highlights:

Bryan Cranston’s favorite Breaking Bad moment is unexpected — but perhaps the most shocking moment of the entire series. I, for one, am still traumatized.

The attacks on Skylar from the fans — and by extension of Anna Gunn — were surprising to the cast and crew, but not to ANY WOMAN EVER.

Vince Gilligan wants a Walt and Jesse cameo on Better Call Saul as much as you do.

This isn’t from the Entertainment Weekly piece, but Bob Odenkirk tackles some Better Call Saul theories, leaving one intriguing possibility alive.

Related: Vince Gilligan and Caroline Strauss (one of Game of Thrones‘ executive producers) talk about making television in our current political climate and how we might need actual heroes rather than anti-heroes.

Game of Thrones is officially done with filming.

Sophie Turner promises this season of Game of Thrones “is going to be bloodier and more death and more emotionally torturous than all the years before!” I’m not ready.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is going to be Dennis-less for a while, at least according to the season description:

“The Gang Returns–mostly–in the 13th season of the FXX original comedy series ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.’ Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Frank (Danny DeVito) return to their duplicitous, scheming ways at Paddy’s Pub, while Dennis (Glenn Howerton) takes on the new role of father in North Dakota…Even without Dennis Reynolds, the Gang has its hands full as Charlie hopes to have a child with The Waitress, Mac sets out to understand his newfound sexuality, Dee takes feminism to new heights, and Frank goes to great lengths for the Gang to experience the greatest moment in Philadelphia sports history – an Eagles Super Bowl victory.”

I just started watching this season of GLOW last night and before I knew it, I had binged four episodes — the fourth episode being the most heartbreaking so far (that said, I still have six more to go). Anyway, Kia Stevens, who plays Tamme, who is, of course, “Welfare Queen” is a goddamned miracle in this episode.

Also, GLOW’s Keith is the best. Men, be more like Keith. [Link is spoilery.]

If you haven’t watched the RuPaul’s Drag Race finale yet, go no further. But PETA is SO MAD at Asia O’Hara, whereas I just feel bad for her. Nice idea in theory, but there’s an old saying about working with kids and animals. Meanwhile, after she won, the winner spent her evening with one Miss Sonja Morgan.

Brilliant new career idea: I’m going to become a social media detective for network television and charge them millions of dollars to just poke around reality show contestants twitter accounts for them SINCE THEY SEEM COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES.

Then there are the dummies who do the racism right out in the open.

Here are pictures from the upcoming Amazon series Homecoming which stars Julia Roberts and appears to have been shot in Dr. Melfi’s office in The Sopranos?

Shameless will be a little longer this season.

Snowpiercer is somehow becoming more of a mess: now the director is pissed at the new showrunner and has quit.

Zoolander from this season of The Bachelorette says that he’s found love on Bachelor in Paradise. No one has had the heart to tell him that its a mirror.

Patricia Clarkson has some feelings about Justin Timberlake’s penis size.

After 24 years, Brian Ross is leaving ABC News following the dust-up that happened over his Michael Flynn reporting. Wow.

In other Trump/media news:

The President said that journalists shouldn’t be murdered — so I’m glad he cleared that up — but he also wouldn’t say whether or not he’d stop calling the press “the enemy of the people.”

CNN didn’t censor a Capital Gazette reporter when she said, “I’m gonna need more than a couple days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers because it’s — our whole lives have been shattered. And so thanks for your prayers, but I couldn’t give a fuck about them if there’s nothing else.” This led to Marco Rubio clutching his pearls on twitter about a profanity when the ACTUAL PROFANITY IS ACCEPTING MONEY FROM AN ORGANIZATION THAT ADVOCATES FLOODING OUR COUNTRY WITH GUNS, YOU FUCKING THIN-SKINNED MONSTER.

Meanwhile, Michael Cohen is totally going to flip.

Before we get started on the #MeToo stuff, we have to talk about Nanette for a second. I recently watched Nanette, the Netflix stand-up special by Tasmanian comedian Hannah Gadsby, and I haven’t been able to shake it since. It’s ostensibly a comedy special, but late in the piece, you realize that it is actually a statement about comedy and the limitations of the medium to address real pain and trauma. It is funny — I don’t want to scare you off, because it is very funny — but it is also raw, and heartbreaking, and profound, and devestating and brilliant and unlike any stand-up comedy you’ve ever seen. Gadsby, whom I had never heard of before watching Nanette, is both guarded and vulnerable, bemused and furious, clearly an extrovert, but maybe one of the most introverted people you’ll ever see with their own Netflix special. She originally started performing Nanette a year and a half ago, but it feels custom tailored for this Time’s Up moment. Anyway, go watch it once you find a moment when you feel ready to laugh but also have some DAMN TRUTH DROPPED ON YOU, and once you’re done, here’s a guide to her work before Nanette.

#MeToo

More charges for Harvey!

Andy Dick has been charged with sexual battery in the least surprising story of all time.

Ray Diaz is being accused of assault by another woman.

Ron Jeremy has been sued by a woman accusing him of sexual assault.

Tool singer Maynard James Keenan has been accused of rape, he calls the allegations, “despicable.”

Junot Diaz claims that the allegations against him don’t sound like something he would do. OK.

Terry Crews has some things to say to his critics:

And the cast and crew of Brooklyn Nine-Nine have Crews’ back — which, knowing the cast and crew of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is hardly surprising.

More of Chris Hardwick’s exes have come forward to defend him.

Sit down, Alec Baldwin.

Renewals

Cancellations

In Development

Casting News

Mark Your Calendar

Fox & FX have released their fall premiere dates:

 

R.I.P.

Harlan Ellison, Science fiction giant

Daniel Pilon, Actor on Dallas, Guiding Light and Ryan’s Hope

Mike Cappotelli, WWE wrestler, winner of Tough Enough

Liliane Montevecchi, Actress

Peter Firmin, British TV producer

WATCH THIS

The Bachelorette: Foolish’s own Whitney tried to get into the audience of one of tonight’s dates in Richmond, but, alas … 7 p.m., ABC

The Rape of Recy Taylor: In 1944, Recy Taylor, an African-American woman, was gang-raped by a group of six white men in Alabama, and instead of being silenced, she identified her attackers. The NAACP sent Rosa Parks to investigate the case. This is a documentary about these women’s stories and how they helped influence the civil rights movement — and today’s #MeToo movement. 8 p.m., Starz

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