Roseanne Barr Reveals Secret Eight-Episode Sitcom

Eight years after ABC canceled her Roseanne revival over a racist tweet, Roseanne Barr has finished filming Meemaw, an independently financed eight-episode comedy shot in Austin, Texas. She plays the matriarch of a mixed-race Texas family of preppers; the plot includes an extravagant bat mitzvah for her granddaughter, played by Indy Bugg. The cast includes Randy Quaid, Drea de Matteo, Omar Gooding and Doug Jones, with guest appearances by Jon Lovitz, Tony Hinchcliffe and Kim Congdon. Barr says the show aims to make relatives with differing political views laugh together, with jokes targeting people across the political spectrum. One report describes a plot involving a criminal empire; that detail is not repeated in the other accounts gathered here. No distributor or premiere date has been announced.