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Despite some expectations that The Conners would be a flop, it has been one of ABC’s highest-rated sitcoms. This season, the characters are dealing with some big life changes. Will these changes keep the viewers tuning in, or could they hurt the ratings? Will The Conners be cancelled or renewed for season six? Stay tuned. *Status Update Below.
A family comedy series, The Conners TV show stars John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, Emma Kenney, Ames McNamara, Jayden Rey, and Jay R. Ferguson. Katey Sagal and Nat Faxon recur. Picking up where the revival of the Roseanne sitcom left off, this series follows the extended working-class Conner family that’s led by widower Dan Conner (Goodman) and his three adult children — Becky (Goranson), Darlene (Gilbert), and D.J. (Michael Fishman) — as well as sister-in-law, Jackie Harris (Metcalf). Season five picks up after the double wedding of Jackie and Neville (Faxon) and Darlene and Ben (Ferguson). Meanwhile, D.J. has left to join his wife overseas, but his daughter Mary (Rey) stays in Lanford. Members of the Conner family continue to grapple with parenthood, dating, financial pressures, and aging in working-class America. Through it all, with love, humor, and perseverance, the family prevails.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances of survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
5/4 update: You can see the latest night’s ratings in context.
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For comparisons: Season four of The Conners on ABC averaged a 0.50 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.15 million viewers.
Note: These are the final national ratings, including all live+same day viewing and DVR playback (through 3:00 AM). Early fast affiliate ratings (estimates) are indicated with an “*”. While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.
What do you think? Do you like The Conners TV series on ABC? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a sixth season?
*5/16/23 update: The Conners has been renewed for a sixth season by ABC.
Look up the ratings of Young Sheldon and you’ll see how the Conners is actually doing in terms of viewership.
Great show. Keep it on. Love it! ❤️
Love the show…much better without Rosanne.
Terrible show Cancel
Huh, viewership has increased, right about the time that Roseanne has been referenced more frequently. Interesting that just mentioning her has increased ratings.
One can extrapolate from the posted data above, within reasonable parameters, that the acumen of ABC network in its penchant for this series corresponds to low levels of viewership on the network itself.
Yes, the live ratings have dropped, just as they have for every other TV show. People who live in a vacuum or in the past either don’t realize that or like to ignore it when it suits their purposes. The Conners is ABC’s highest-rated scripted show in the key demo and is in second place in total viewers. If you run your network like a business, there’s no reason to cancel it.
Source: https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/abc-2022-23-tv-season-ratings/
You didn’t understand his statement, it basically says that ABC network itself is a low ratings network, and he’s right, it’s 4th of the big 4. The network itself has low ratings, so of course a show with just 3 million will be its highest, but if this were on FOX, or CBS, or NBC, it’d have been cancelled with those ratings, due to low ratings, but on ABC where it’s high for a low viewed network, it stays. He probably is a doctor, since he uses large words, and clearly you didn’t comprehend him.
Let’s see how the ratings go over the course of the season.