It’s to rule out dangerous people but I remember someone who worked in reality TV saying that the doctor works for the show and if a producer wants a specific person, the doctor will find a way to okay it, no matter what the truth is.

They saw that money could be made and convinced themselves they could manage Roseanne, just like how Sara Gilbert, Whitney Cummings and Wanda Sykes did... but any success in getting her to avoid controversy on twitter was very short lived.

Maybe, maybe not. What I’ve read about the lawsuit says the complaint focuses a lot on that adline “No Sesame. All Street.” They want the trailers changed but I haven’t seen anything where they try to get the movie from opening in theatres.

From what I remember none of the advertising for Avenue Q directly referenced Sesame Street, even though Avenue Q imitates Sesame Street more in its parody. That seems to be a big part of the issue, the adline “”No Sesame, All Street”. IIRC, a lot (or all?) of Avenue Q materials had a hard-to-miss disclaimer saying it…

I’m speaking from 20/20 hindsight but I feel like at the point that Walter was in tears, the Netflix reps should have ended the interview early. A critic (can’t find who) noted that when they interviewed the cast there were more Netflix reps than there would normally be, they were wary about the potential for this…

I understand the accusations against Tambor came when they were (almost?) done filming, unlike House of Cards which only had to dump two episodes... but why did they let Tambor make the show’s promotion part of his redemption tour, how weren’t those male cast members better trained to avoid that and why didn’t a…

The AD promo tour for him has also been an apology and “I’ve grown” tour for him and that incident with Yi... which has been derailed by his behavior around Walter.

Just looked up Johnny Tri Nguyen. Wow.

Hmmm, I only know oat milk as an ingredient in my Lush shaving cream (which is so moisturizing) but I’ll have to keep an eye out for Oatly. My local Sprouts only just got pea milk (which I tried and decided was a pass).

Nah, it’s time for a gender-flipped reboot. Who would you cast as the schluby wife and as her hot, loving husband? Also, is he ‘hot and knows it’ or ‘hot but doesn’t know it’?

I should note, Hollywood was largely happy to exile Roseanne — save for a few reality shows and pilots that went on to be rejected — until reboots from the 90s became big.

It’s less common for women to get away with it but a rebooted Roseanne is a huge hit right now. She was known for making the set miserable the first time around and that was before she became quite public about her bigotries... and people like Sara Gilbert still worked around her to make the show happen.

The other part that has me bothered is I worry that there’s a PR exec blaming Walter for this instead of wishing they worked harder to minimize Tambor’s role.

*Paying attention to the episode.

Sigh. I was still going to watch because of Jessica Walter but hearing Tambor’s behavior sometimes left her in tears? And her male co-stars are dismissing it? I seriously don’t know anymore. Am I going to be missing jokes because I’m thinking about how badly Walter was being treated on the set instead of paying…

I was thinking, lets give her a Picket Fences continuation! It would be interesting to find out what kind of adults the Brock kids became, how have Sheriff Jimmy and Dr Jill handled aging — have the retired or are they the type who identify so strongly with their job they don’t stop?

With reboots it’s always a marketing issue. When there wasn’t so much TV, it was a huge challenge to get people to listen to the concept to the point where they would consider watching it. Now, there’s a lot more TV so you’re going to get a lot more consider to consider a reboot of a familiar name than a completely…

Just based on the premise, I wasn’t too surprised to learn the author was accused of sexual misconduct.

I don’t see a problem with depicting suicide and suicide ideation without glamorizing it. Don’t portray the victim as having accomplished their goals in death or having made the world better by erasing themselves. If Netflix were looking at a YA book about suicide, I wish they adapted Adam Silvera’s More Happy Than…

I don’t fully believe the “driven by profits” thing. That comes up as an excuse but there are more than enough times when it’s been clear they’re willing to fudge those numbers to protect a predator or to undermine someone who has challenged them.