Roseanne Barr reveals wild new idea for a TV series comeback... 7 years after being cancelled

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Roseanne Barr revealed she is ready for her TV comeback seven years after ABC canceled her revived TV comedy series, Roseanne, over a series of racist tweets.

On Tuesday, the actress, 72, teased her return to the small screen with a new comedy series, which she wrote with TV producer Allan Stephan, best known for his work on  HBO's Arli$$ and Roseanne. 

According to Variety, the show, which will be be four to six episodes starring Barr, is said to be a 'cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos.' 

The Emmy winner also revealed to the outlet that the series will center on a 'small-town farmer in Alabama who is saving the United States from drug gangs and China.'

The protagonist will also apparently dabble in 'growing and selling drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms.' 

'It's silly and out there,' she raved. '[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff.' 

Roseanne Barr revealed she is ready for her TV comeback seven years after ABC canceled her revived TV comedy series, Roseanne, over a series of racist tweets; seen in 2018

Barr noted it was loosely based on her 'life as a farmer in Hawaii.' 

The mother-of-five, who moved to her 46-acre farm on the Big Island in 2010, also described the project as 'kind of like the Coen brothers thing.'

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This will mark her first acting gig since getting axed over her remarks about former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, which the network called 'repugnant and inconsistent' with their values. 

In one of her highly offensive tweets, she referred to Jarrett as the offspring of the 'Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.' 

After receiving substantial backlash, she deleted the racist post and apologized to Jarrett.

'I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,' she tweeted. 'I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me-my joke was in bad taste.' 

Months later as she sat down for her first TV interview since getting fired for the tweet, Barr reflected on how the tweet cost her 'everything.' 

'I wish I worded it better,' she said on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show. 

On Tuesday, the actress, 72, teased her return to the small screen with a new comedy series, which she wrote with TV producer Allan Stephan, best known for his work on HBO's Arli$$ and Roseanne (pictured in 2017)

According to Variety, the show, which will be be four to six episodes starring Barr, is said to be a 'cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos' (seen in 2017)

She continued: 'I am a creative genius, and this is not a good feeling for an artist to be treated this way, and it's not a good feeling for a citizen, either.'  

Still, Barr insisted that she felt her tweet was mischaracterized and that she had apologized enough for her actions. 

'I feel like I have apologized and explained and asked for forgiveness and made recompense,' she said. 

Later she stated: 'I'm not a racist and the people who voted for Trump, they're not racist either, and Trump isn't a racist, sorry. We just have a different opinion.' 

ABC cancelled Roseanne right after its first season earned the top spot for scripted primetime TV shows in the 18-49 age demographic. 

The Emmy winner also revealed to the outlet that the series will center on a 'small-town farmer in Alabama who is saving the United States from drug gangs and China' (seen in 2018)

Barr, who was dropped by her longtime agents at ICM over the tweet, declined to say who is selling the series. 

'If Hollywood doesn't buy it, then I'm just gonna make it myself,' she told Variety. 'Does anybody in [Hollywood] like America or the people who watch TV? Because the people who watch TV would really like to see a show where working-class people win against the enemies of America.'

She added that the family in the series will be a lot like the Conners, featured in her series, Roseanne.

'There's a scene where I have to strap myself into a corset. My granddaughter helps me, and then I go into town to flirt with all the shopkeepers that are just grotesque people,' she mused. 'It's just kind of a cartoony kind of thing.' 

'It's silly and out there,' she raved. '[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff' (pictured in 2018)

The actress also said Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election shows that people in the U.S. want content from Hollywood that is 'irrelevant to the American people.'

'If they want to survive, they should work with the new president. American people elected him in an overwhelming victory,' she said. 'They should get back in touch with [them] and make some money, which I don’t know if they do or not ’cause they’ve proven to be ideologues rather than [business people].'

She continued: 'What shocks me is the fact that they prefer to lose money and then explain that to the shareholders who apparently have no problem with that.'

Although Barr has taken a step back from acting, she currently hosts The Roseanne Barr Podcast. 

As for whether she would return to ABC, the star said: 'F**k no.' 

'I’d like to get paid handsomely to bring another shit f**king network back from doom as I’ve done twice for ABC,' Barr said. 'But I just don’t see how they would keep their nose out of my business. We’ll see. If not, I’ll just go somewhere else and put it on my own website.'