It’s beginning to look like Ted Sarandos won’t stop until all that remains of the freshly merged Disney and Fox is a hollowed-out husk of what could have been. That’s an exaggeration—but in light of the news that Kenya Barris may be plotting an exit from ABC, with Netflix reportedly trying to lure him, it’s obvious that the streaming giant is not playing around.

Then again, wherever Barris winds up, it seems his exit will have another motivation: clashes with the network he’s called home for three years.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Barris is “actively trying to get out of his overall deal with ABC Studios,” which the producer signed last year. The problem? There are three years left in that deal. Still, sources tell T.H.R. that Barris is considering following his former ABC contemporary Shonda Rhimes over to Netflix, which also recently lured Ryan Murphy away from Fox. As one source put it, “Talks are very real.” It may help that Barris is already working with Netflix on at least one project: he wrote the script for its upcoming Shaft film remake.

As T.H.R. notes, Barris is just the type of versatile, prolific producer Netflix covets—and the prospect of striking another blow at Disney and Fox may only increase his appeal. Besides, Barris has recently struggled under ABC’s leadership. Last month, the network decided not to air an episode of Black-ish about athletes kneeling during the national anthem. At the time, both Barris and a representative for ABC cited “creative differences” as the reason the episode got shelved—but sources tell T.H.R. that it was not a mutual decision. Barris has also developed a number of projects for ABC in addition to the Black-ish spin-off Grown-ish, which airs on its little-sister network Freeform, but so far none have made it to air.

Talk of Barris’s potential exit comes at a time when ABC has courted another sort of controversy via its Roseanne reboot, which features a Trump-supporting title character and star. Some critics have noted that Roseanne Barr’s politics and support of conspiracy theories make the series—and her presence back on network TV—a tough pill to swallow. Others have gone further, criticizing the network for airing the new Roseanne under the guise of representing “both sides” of the political aisle even as it pulled Black-ish’s political episode from the air. In a perhaps coincidental twist of timing, the Barris news also comes on the heels of a dismissive joke on Tuesday’s Roseanne that referenced two of the sitcom’s more progressive network-mates.

The quip comes after Dan and Roseanne fell asleep on the couch, then awaken to realize they’ve slumbered through an evening of ABC programming. Dan remarks, “We missed all the shows about black and Asian families”—a clear nod toward Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat.

Roseanne’s reply? “They’re just like us. There, now you’re all caught up.”