Ailing Barr can't help out needy ABC Family.(ABC Family has to pull plug on Roseanne Barr's "The Domestic Goddess" after she announces indefinite delay due to hysterectomy)

Multichannel News, August, 2003 by Umstead, R. Thomas

ABC Family will continue to search for a buzz-building, network-transforming series, as a highly publicized cooking show featuring Roseanne Barr fell out of the oven last week. Industry observers called the canceling of The Domestic Goddess Hour a setback to a network that has yet to establish a brand or identity since The Walt Disney Co.

acquired Fox Family Channel for $5.2 billion in fall 2001. But ABC Family executives prefer to call the Domestic Goddess demise a speed bump for a network finally turning the corner toward establishing itself among a core audience of 18-to-34-year-old adults. Preproduction had begun on Domestic Goddess, but it had to be halted on Aug. 13--"after just three days--when Bar" told network officials she would be...

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