Eight years after she was fired from her hit reboot of "Roseanne," Roseanne Barr is looking for a second chance.The 73-year-old has self-financed a new show called "Meemaw: A Modern Day Fable."Barr told The Hollywood Reporter this week that she's shopping the sitcom to "Anybody who wants a number one show and is smart enough to take a number one show."ETHAN HAWKE BLASTS HOLLYWOOD'S 'GREEDY BASTARDS,' PREDICTS MASSIVE REBELLION AGAINST POWERFUL ELITESRoseanne Barr is filming a new sitcom called "Meemaw: A Modern Day Fable." (Getty Images)"I don’t know why they don’t want a number one show and why they hate a number one show and why they would destroy a number one show," she said of Hollywood."But if they do want a number one show, I got it."The "Roseanne" reboot was a huge hit with tens of millions of viewers each week, and it finished its first season as the number one primetime sitcom in the 18-49 demographic, according to Variety.ROSEANNE BARR CALLS FORMER CO-STAR A 'BRAINWASHED BIGOT' AFTER HE SAID REBOOT WAS 'RIGHTFULLY CANCELED'She’s also pitched "Meemaw" to Elon Musk but without success."I don’t know why he hasn’t called me or returned my calls," she admitted of the trillionaire.
"I mean, of all people on earth, I’m the one he should call, but I don’t know."HOW ELON MUSK GOT BACK IN TRUMP'S ORBIT AFTER NUCLEAR FALLOUT, INSIDERS REVEAL: 'WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE'"Meemaw" is about the matriarch of a mixed-race family in Texas who are preppers, which she describes as "Somebody who’s prepared of the end of the world."It’s partially based on her life."I’m a prepper.I live in Texas.
Everybody’s a prepper here," she said.The show also stars Drea de Matteo, Omar Gooding and Randy Quaid who plays Barr’s love interest.Randy Quaid and Roseanne Barr pose together at an event in 2004.(WireImage)JOHN GOODMAN ADMITS HE FELT 'FRIGHTENED' AFTER THE SUDDEN FAME HE EXPERIENCED FROM 'ROSEANNE'"I’m in love with him and I wish he would leave his wife and ...