Whitney Cummings will leave “Roseanne” as co-showrunner prior to the revival's next season, counterpart Bruce Helford told reporters on a conference call Friday.
“I think Whitney is going to be too busy,” Helford told The Hollywood Reporter. “She’s got so much going on. I don’t know how she had time to work on the show in the first place.”
Cummings and Helford co-ran the current season — the show's 10th, counting its first nine from 1988 to 1997 — which earned unexpectedly high ratings and was quickly renewed after the first few episodes aired. Cummings also executive produced with Roseanne Barr and Sarah Gilbert, Tom Werner, Helford, and Tony Hernandez.
“Working on ‘Roseanne’ was a surreal, incredible experience,” Cummings wrote on Twitter Friday. “Due to work commitments and my tour schedule, I’m gonna have to watch the Conners from the sidelines next season.”
Cummings is a long-time standup comic who created the TV shows “2 Broke Girls” and “Whitney,” the latter of which she also starred in for two seasons on NBC.
In March, Cummings explained why the show featured controversial elements, like the fact that Roseanne (the character) is a Trump supporter (as is Barr, who plays her).
“It’s about the circumstances that led to the current administration, not the current administration,” Cummings told Variety. “We’re not talking about Mueller and Trump and Russia, we’re talking about not having healthcare and just the circumstances of a heartland, blue collar family.”
Cummings said she was the “PC police” while the revival was being shot, THR reported. The writers and producers had to learn to walk the line between what is acceptable language today and how small-town, working class people actually talk.
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