ABC invites The Conners back for a second season
With the ink drying on a whole batch of new contracts, ABC has officially green-lit a second season of The Conners, Variety reports. It’s been five months since the family sitcom, a Hail Mary spin-off of the revived series starring Roseanne Barr, premiered but it was probably never in any real danger of not getting renewed. The Conners is the network’s highest-rated program, after all, rising from the ashes after the Roseanne revival was canceled because Barr went on a racist Twitter rant last year. As we noted in our review of the season-one premiere, The Conners was the show that Roseanne, in its 10th season, should have been—warm, but biting, with a lovably dysfunctional family at its core.