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.
It’s terrible, the show just doesn’t have what it takes when Roseanne was in it. It should’ve been cancelled long but but NBC won’t do that, they will take the loss so they can’t give Roseann the benefit of the doubt. But we all know the truth, it really is a shame for these cast members just going through the motions of continually dishing out horrible shows.
1.56 rating for the Conners is not even close to the 3.49 Roseanne rating. Screw you Hollywood and your political bs. I will never watch this crap show. The advertisement I just saw on the TV for The Conners says best rated show is also bs on the 3rd day of September 2019.
Bring Rosanne Barr back…….. or cancel this show–this show sucks without Rosanne !!!!
I loved the original Rosanne show. I must have watched all of them 2 or 3 times. I tried to give the new Rosanne show a chance but it wasn’t nearly as good as the original. The new show Without Rosanne Barr “The Connors” has no lead. It’s almost like they are trying to find themselves. John Goodman’s heart does not seem to be in this show like the original. The show just seems to be flat and not very funny. I watched 5 episodes and lost interest.
Same, I watched the first 3, and it got too boring to continue on.
Are you just renewing it to save face? The ratings are down, the stories are awful and you save this one but cancel really, truly adult entertainment. Walt must be rolling over.
Bring back Rosanne or cancel the show. It’s her show and to try to go on without her is horrible and disguising. I refuse to watch the show after how Rosanne was treated. Bring her back or cancel the show!
We watch reruns of Roseanne on cable networks. That was a great show. The reboot had promise when Roseanne was on it, but without her, it’s awful. Cancel. We watched the first episode to see how they would handle her absence. What they did was disgusting. Never watched again.
HELLO !! This show was and still is about Roseanne (period). ABC should be boycotted for not having the courage to let her remain on her own damn show for which she was the star of. Disgusting !!
It should be cancelled. Terrible without Rosanne
In fact it’s better without her.
Yes yes it is it’s a lot better.all the people say if you don’t like it go watch reruns.
Love it, it’s even better without Roseann. Please don’t cancel it!
The show sucked with Roseanne and it sucks even worse without her.
Cancel. It doesn’t work without Roseanne.
Love the show. One of the few I follow on a,regular basis. Please do not cancel.
great show! keep it on!
god no. its horrible. half the characters shouldnt even be on it. all the kids are useless along with DJ and his fam.
It was called, “Rosanne”, for a reason. Unfortunately, they allowed their, P.C. Virtue Signalling, to blind them to the gold mine they had. Then, the rest of the cast threw her under the bus. This behavior should not be rewarded.
CANCEL IT!
Nobody threw her under a bus RENEW IT!!!!!!!!!!