The ‘Roseanne’ spinoff will air its final episodes in 2024-25.
The network has picked up a seventh season of the comedy, which will be its last on the network. It’s also set to be the shortest of any of the show’s seasons, with an episode count likely in the single digits. The shortest previous season of The Conners was its first, which ran 11 episodes; this year’s strikes-shortened edition has 13. The series as a whole will have 106 episodes to its credit after the May 22 season finale.
The Conners premiered in fall 2018, a few months after ABC canceled its highly rated Roseanne revival following racist remarks by star Roseanne Barr. After the show’s producers, including Tom Werner and Sara Gilbert, negotiated Barr’s exit, ABC gave a series order to The Cooners, which follows the other members of the Conner family (Roseanne’s character dies offscreen before the show picks up).
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The series has been ABC’s most-watched comedy in Nielsen’s linear ratings for its entire run; this season, it’s averaging about 4.3 million viewers with a week of delayed viewing (not including streaming, for which ABC, like other media companies, doesn’t regularly provide detailed data).
The Conners is also one of the very few independently produced shows on a broadcast network. It comes from Werner’s production company, Werner Entertainment, which isn’t affiliated with a studio.
John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, Emma Kenney, Ames McNamara and Jayden Ray have continued their roles from the Roseanne revival (and in the case of the first four, the original series) in The Conners. Jay R. Ferguson and Katey Sagal joined the show later in its run.
Werner and Gilbert executive produce the series with Bruce Helford, Dave Caplan, Bruce Rasmussen and Tony Hernandez.
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