Roseanne Barr returning to television. The controversial comedian says she has a brand new show in the works, and claims that it will be just as innovating as her original comedy series, “Roseanne,” which featured the struggles of a middle class family trying to make ends meet in Lanford, Illinois.
This time around, Barr isn’t playing a mother raising young children. She’s portraying a grandmother in a series titled “Meemaw.” According to Page Six, Barr says her work has only gotten better since her days of playing Roseanne Conner, claiming that it will be reflected in the upcoming series.
Roseanne Barr Promises New Series Will Be Revolutionary
“It’s every bit as revolutionary as the Roseanne show, if not more, and my work has improved with time,” Barr said in the interview. “I want everybody who disagrees in a family to sit in the same room and just laugh and go, ‘Yeah, maybe I was an a—— that time. Well, you were an a—— this time. Oh, we’re all a——-. Let’s get a beer.”
Barr says that “Meemaw” will revolve around her character, who is the leader of a “mixed-race family of preppers in Texas.” Roseanne says her character’s goal is to “throw her granddaughter the most fantastic bat mitzvah Texas has ever seen.”
The show is now being called “a “semi-autobiographical series about a woman who hails from a very liberal East Coast Jewish family,” and after being disinherited lives a lower-class lifestyle in Texas.
Barr’s 8-Year TV Absence
This will be Roseanne’s return to television after eight years out of the spotlight. She was famously fired from the Roseanne reboot by Disney in 2018 after she made a tweet about a political figure that the company deemed “abhorrent.”
This time around, Barr’s leading man will be Randy Quaid, who has made headlines for his own controversial political comments. The series also stars Drea de Matteo, Omar Gooding, and Doug Jones. Actors such as Tony Hinchcliffe, Kim Congdon, and Jon Lovitz are also slated to make cameos on the show.
The series was quietly filmed in Austin in late 2025. It was Barr who raised money from private investors to film the production. For those, who think that the series may lean too heavily to one political side, Roseanne says that’s not the case.
“My daughters are super woke and of course I love them, so I put in jokes for them, too, like I did on ‘Roseanne,’” she says. “I make fun of everybody ’cause everybody deserves to be made fun of who’s in power. So, I’ve got some great jokes about Republicans that the lefties are gonna love. I’m an equal opportunity destroyer,” she said.
What Happened to Roseanne After the ABC Cancellation?
Roseanne Barr’s departure from Roseanne in 2018 didn’t mark the end of the sitcom’s story. ABC canceled the revival after Barr was fired. The series was subsequently reworked into The Conners, which followed the same working-class family while explaining Roseanne Conner’s absence through the character’s death.
John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and other original cast members returned for the spinoff, which continued the family’s story for several more seasons.
With Meemaw, Barr is now pursuing a new comedy built around a different family and a character who reflects some aspects of her own life. Whether the project finds a wide audience remains to be seen, but its premise and cast are already drawing attention as she prepares for a return to scripted television.
