How This Climate of TV Reboots and Trashy Programming Is Eroding The Artistry of Originality

The Connors was born out of the desperate need to prevent a disastrous situation from getting much worse. Executives at ABC had a catastrophe on their hands, thanks to the deplorable antics of a newly-minted piggy-bank called Roseanne Barr, whose Blue collar comedic prowess had made her self-titled show a ratings bonanza for over a decade.

It was time to resurrect the good old days, and with a White supremacist in the Oval Office, the timing was perfect to assemble the family with the loud-mouthed matriarch, who thinks all Muslims are terrorists, and that Black women bear a striking resemblance to primates.

Oh sorry!

That was actually Roseanne Barr who compared an illustrious Black woman, who dutifully served under the Obama administration, to an ape. And that ill-fated tweet got her fired from the ambitious reboot of her show, which expectedly yielded magnificent returns as soon the highly-anticipated premiere was unleashed.

The abrupt departure of Roseanne from Roseanne was the only way to sufficiently punish her for the public share of a racially-insensitive joke, and while the swift call to action was a valiant move, days later it was clear that ABC was unwilling to surrender the all the benefits from its…