The Roseanne revival earned terrific ratings for ABC in the 2017-18 television season. It stung them to cancel it in the wake of star Roseanne Barr’s offensive Twitter behavior. Rather than let the whole Conner family (and that great big audience) go, the Alphabet Network has introduced The Conners TV show. Can the first season of this spin-off even come close to being the kind of Nielsen knockout the revival was, or has the audience already moved on? Will The Conners be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
An ABC family comedy, The Conners stars John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, Michael Fishman, Emma Kenney, Ames McNamara, Jayden Rey, and Maya Lynne Robinson. Guest stars in season one include Estelle Parsons, James Pickens Jr., Natalie West, Johnny Galecki, and Juliette Lewis. The sitcom follows the working-class family of Roseanne and Dan Conner (Goodman) including their three children Becky (Goranson), Darlene (Gilbert), and D.J. (Fishman), as well as Roseanne’s sister, Jackie Harris (Metcalf). No matter what challenges they meet in Lanford, Illinois, the Conners endure, thanks to their persistence, humor, and most of all — love.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly in the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — typically around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
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For comparisons: The 10th season of Roseanne on ABC averaged a 3.49 rating in the 18-49 year old demographic and 13.482 million total viewers.
Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
What do you think? Do you like The Conners TV series? Should this ABC TV show be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
*3/22/2019 Update: ABC has renewed The Conners TV show for a second season.
Please keep the show. characters are still great!
Yes I do like the Comnors Show. I never watched much of the original Roseann show because I felt Roseann was too angry and mean much like my own mother. I think the show is much better without her character because Dan’s character has always been kinder and gentler to his family especially his children. Dan was also much nicer to Roseann than Roseann was to Dan. My favorite character is Becky.
Thanks for taking a chance on the show.
It blows.
Cancel it
This show is one of the best on TV. The writing is excellent. The actors finally able to fully play their characters, sans Roseann, with the excellence. It’s a must renew.
Keep the show 100 times better without Roseanne been hoping they’d kill her off for years
Cancel the conners already!!
Cancel this show.
This show is straight garbage without Roseann and I love John Goodman, it’s just hard to watch, they need to cancel it or bring back Roseann as they did with Dan.
I refuse to watch this show. I watched the first few minutes of the first show just to see how they explained Roseanne’s absence. Roseanne is the heart and soul of the Conner family. Without her, there is no show.
Cancel! Waste of air time, even the actors look bored on the commercials! Get it over with, cancel it! Bring back Roseanne in a new tv show, SHE is worth watching, she ‘s really hilarious!
Cancel! Not good without its main character. Sad.
I have no interest in this show anymore. The main reason I watched it was Roseanne. The other actors have their moments but she was the show. The world is getting far to politically correct she is a comic and has her opinions just like everybody else. She apologised and made it possible for the rest to continue on even tho this was her baby that she put her soul into. ABC needs to focus on producing entertainment and not being the morality police. Give her a suspension if you feel you need to. I am not saying I agree… Read more »
Show is all about sex. I think jr. High boys wrote it! Not funny AT ALL!
The Conners show is awful, please put on a different show, waste of time my family hates this crappy show.
Like the show ..hope it gets another season ..
I love the show! I enjoy it a lot….never have I seen a christmas tree in the house until now, but I enjoy it alot dont miss Rosanne at all.
have you never watch the show before, at least one example is “Home For The Holidays”, the 12th episode of Season 9 of Roseanne. There are many others.