Striking Tom Arnold has four ex-wives and two kids: ‘I have to work forever

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mockumentary comedy “Underdeveloped,” premiering Sept. 8 on free streamer Tubi.He is also a member of both the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA, both of which remain on strike. “On Friday [Aug.

18] I’m going to strike with the ‘Roseanne’ writers. We’re all meeting at the old studio,” said Arnold, 64, who not only wrote for and appeared on ABC’s “Roseanne,” which premiered in 1988, but was married to series star Roseanne Barr from 1990-94. “When I moved here [to LA] in 1988 to write for ‘Roseanne,’ as soon as I get here there was a writers strike so I really had to scramble because I wasn’t in the guild yet.“I’m going to see a lot of buddies on the picket line [Friday] from the Midwest who I brought to ‘Roseanne’ to write.”Arnold is allowed to speak freely and to publicize “Underdeveloped” under a special waiver granted to the independently produced series, created by star Brian A.

Metcalf and co-starring Thomas Ian Nicholas (“American Pie”), who’s also an executive producer. The show was shot last December.“It’s complicated,” he said. “I think the strategy of the union is that we’re going to show what these independent, small groups will pay and put more pressure, hopefully, on the bigger studios.“We just want to figure out the streaming stuff [on the SAG-AFTRA side]; the studios have been reticent to tell us how many people are watching their shows,” he said. “Some of these studio heads, you go, ‘That guy’s the devil.’ The guy over at Discovery [David Zaslav] made $500 million the last few years and a guy like [ABC’s] Bob Iger, who I’ve known since he started — he used to come over and try to help me get Roseanne out of the house, like ‘What’s the game plan?’ — he’s known as a good guy but he sounds terrible when.