Hollywood Rocked by Roseanne Ratings

RUSH: The Roseanne TV show, there was a story in Deadline.com and the headline: “‘Roseanne’ Revival’s Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood, Prompts Soul-Searching.” Now, I mentioned this one too yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, that the point that I made about this, and I made this point twice yesterday, and I want to make it again, the Roseanne character is not a conservative and this show is not conservative.

Now, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not knocking it. But with the context of this story, “‘Roseanne’ Revival’s Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood, Prompts Soul-Searching,” I don’t know that Hollywood will ever figure out why this program rated as well as it did, but there are a lot of people assuming that — and, by the way, here is the audience break down. This is fascinating. This was the number one TV show two nights ago, and it dwarfed This is Us and other recent, big ratings success shows. It dwarfed them.

In adults it has a record in a lot of recent years. Eighteen million total, in the adult demographic, this has blown away everything. And so now Hollywood supposedly is soul searching. The number one market where this program had the highest audience as a percentage of that market was Tulsa, Oklahoma. But that’s not what’s shocking. In New York City, this show did not finish in the top 20. In Los Angeles this show did not finish in the top 30. And yet it had the highest ratings of any prime time TV show that anybody can remember in recent years.

This is what is going to shock Hollywood.

But for this show to have an audience of 18 million and to not finish in the top 20 in New York City, the Tri-State market, nor finish in the top 30 in Los Angeles, whoa! The demographics on that will blow your mind. So advertisers are gonna be looking at that, ABC is gonna be looking at that, all kinds of, quote, unquote, experts are gonna be looking at that and trying to figure out, holy smokes, this throws everything we’ve ever believed upside down. We can have the highest rated show ever and nobody in New York watch it?

Now, given that and Hollywood’s supposedly doing a lot of soul-searching, do you really think they’re gonna act on that? Do you think Hollywood’s gonna start making TV shows that have no interest to people in New York? And further, why didn’t this show have any interest in New York? Why didn’t it have any appeal to people in Los Angeles? Well, there’s a lot of answers to it. I mean, in both cities, you’re talking about high concentrations of raw leftism, raw liberalism. And as part of raw liberalism, you have raw hatred.

But not only that, in Los Angeles and Hollywood, you have some of the biggest class elitists that you have ever run into in your life. And a program set with a lunch bucket family in Illinois is gonna be considered putrid by a bunch of left-wing elites. They don’t care about those people’s lives.

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