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- 0:02Speaker 1: The Shaw Report. Whether you like it or not, she's back. Ho, ho, ho.
- 0:11Speaker 1: Roseanne Barr has just wrapped production on an eight-episode comedy
- 0:15Speaker 1: series marking her return to scripted television eight years after
- 0:19Speaker 1: she was cancelled from her own TV show. It's called Meemaw,
- 0:23Speaker 1: A Modern Day Fable, and she shot it in secret,
- 0:26Speaker 1: funded by private investors... with a cast that features Randy Quaid,
- 0:31Speaker 1: Drea DiMatteo from The Sopranos, and the great John Lovitz.
- 0:34Speaker 1: The story follows the matriarch from a liberal East Coast
- 0:38Speaker 1: Jewish family who gets disinherited, moves to Texas, and heads
- 0:42Speaker 1: up a mixed-race family of doomsday preppers.
- 0:45Speaker 2: It's got everything.
- 0:46Speaker 1: While trying to throw her granddaughter a massive bat mitzvah.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Well, I'm hooked already.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Look, I know she's polarising, but I always loved her show.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Given that she did get cancelled and... Cancel big time.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Where's it going to show? Who's going to show it?
- 1:01Speaker 1: Well, there's no release date or anything yet, but someone
- 1:04Speaker 1: will stream it.
- 1:05Speaker 2: I guess so. Someone will.
- 1:06Speaker 1: I guess so. A Bridgerton prequel focusing on the head
- 1:09Speaker 1: of the family, Lady Violet, has been given the green
- 1:11Speaker 1: light at Netflix. Shonda Rhimes will write the series and
- 1:14Speaker 1: produce it, as she has done with Bridgerton from the
- 1:16Speaker 1: start with her company, Shondaland. This news comes as season five,
- 1:20Speaker 1: focusing this time on Francesca Bridgerton, begins production in London
- 1:24Speaker 1: with the first Bridgerton same-sex relationship.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Dear reader.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Ladies, hoping a farmer might wife them, are going to
- 1:35Speaker 1: have to make.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Their own inquiries for the immediate future. Be your own wingman.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Because Farmer Wants a Wife is taking a break, a
- 1:42Speaker 1: little hiatus. Not cancelled, but on pause. The casting team
- 1:47Speaker 1: that was working on the next season has been let go.
- 1:49Speaker 2: But Channel 7 insists it will return, most likely the
- 1:53Speaker 2: year after next.
- 1:54Speaker 1: And Liam Gallagher has revealed he was offered a spot
- 1:58Speaker 1: on the UK's Celebrity Traitors.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Oh, don't tell me what happened last night. I've got
- 2:02Speaker 2: to watch it when I get home. But turned it down.
- 2:04Speaker 2: You're safe with me. I was looking at Chip in.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Responding to a fan who said they wanted to see
- 2:10Speaker 1: him on the hit reality show.
- 2:12Speaker 2: Liam said, oh, I've been asked. It's not my thing, though.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I'm not a celebrity. Classic Liam, considering he's one of
- 2:18Speaker 2: the biggest rock stars in the world.
- 2:20Speaker 1: Incidentally, the documentary Don't Look Back in Anger about Oasis's
- 2:24Speaker 1: reunion tour is out today on Disney +.