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Last month, ABC announced that they are bringing Roseanne back for 8 episodes, and yesterday on The Tonight Show Laurie Metcalfe explained to Jimmy Fallon how it happened.
Back in March, John Goodman reunited with Sara Gilbert on The Talk where they recreated a scene on that couch and Julie Chen asked him if he would do a revival of Roseanne. Dan told her, “Oh hell yes!” After they were done taping that show, Gilbert called her castmates and asked them the same question. She got the same answer, so she put on her Executive Producer hat and made some calls. The rest is Hollywood history.
Another thing she confirmed, is that the children, who were born during the sitcoms final seasons will also be part of the revival.
The morale to this story is if you want a revival of your show, then you have to recreate the original to get the updated version like Roseanne did on The Talk and Will & Grace did for Hillary Clinton, who is next?
