“The Conners” to premiere October 16th 2018 on ABC

Thank you.

 

FWIW, I'm seeing season premiere 10/21/20.

 

any news about katey sagal ? is she leaving the show ?

 

Hopefully she can pull double-duty on two shows, like Johnny Galecki did during that last season of The Big Bang Theory. Katey Sagal and John Goodman have great chemistry.

 

shes on a new show?

 

Erin Brockovich Drama Starring Katey Sagal Ordered to Series at ABC - Variety

 

The Conners Trailer: Darlene and Becky Take Jobs at Wellman Plastics Amid Pandemic in Season 3 — Watch

 

I hate to say it because Rosanne is a horrible person but the show is so much worse without her.

 

That's the Carsey-Warner formula - take some who is talented but troubled and let them lean HARD in the the troubled part and it makes great TV. Sometmes it doesn't work out for the star - sometimes it does.

Cosby.
Roseanne.
Grace Under Fire.

Huge hits- insane people getting insane.

 

The show is worse without her character, but I still find it pretty enjoyable.

 

I've never heard anything about Cosby being difficult on the set, though. So with him it's a quite different situation than with Roseanne or Brett Butler.

 

Does anyone ever see Roseanne coming back?

 

no shes dead on the show lol

 

I never heard stories about Brett Butler, she was difficult too?

 

I actually like the show just fine with her gone, gives more time for the other characters.
I've always preferred Darlene and Dan in the show anyways. Although i do think they made Aunt Jackie out to me a bit more crazy than she
was in the original 9 seasons. I liked her a lot back then but not nearly as much in the current seasons. But just as long as Darlene and Dan are
there i will for sure be watching til the end !

 

Five different showrunners in five seasons. Two cast members who quit the show mid-contract (and whose contracts were paid out). And substance abuse issues, which ultimately ended the show. I’ve seen her interviewed where she seems contrite about what happened and how she treated people.

Don’t forget Cybill when it comes to Carsey-Werner star vehicles with difficult stars.

 

so was Dan

 

That last season of Rosanne was NOT Rosanne - it was basically a soft-reboot of Absolutely Fabulous.

 

Look at Lisa Bonet and the way he treated her for being her own individual who just happened to be an actress on his show. First Angel Heart (a movie with peak-era DeNiro and Mickey Rourke, same year Cosby did Leonard Pt. 6 mind you), then him not being happy she married Lenny Kravitz (someone who still has a successful career 30 years later) and then canning her from A Different World for not having an abortion (and now Zoe Kravitz is a success in her own right). F*** Bill Cosby, even as a kid I liked Bonet better and history has worked in her favor now that she's happily married to one of the most desired men in the world and has a successful daughter and friendly relationship with her ex-husband, while Cosby is in prison.

 

I'm not saying Cosby doesn't have serious issues, of course. But his behavior towards Bonet falls under the umbrella of being an overcontrolling, patriarchal executive producer, wanting to control her image both on and offscreen. That's quite different than the behavior of Roseanne and Butler, both of whom were disruptive on their sets and abusive towards writers and showrunners. My point was that I have not heard any stories about Cosby behaving in an entitled, disruptive, or unprofessional manner on the set of The Cosby Show in the manner that both Barr and Butler did on their shows.

 

Not to mention the fact that she flashed her breasts in front of the nine-year-old child actor who played her son, who ended up leaving the show over the incident. (His character was aged up and recast.)

Incidentally, he ended up committing suicide a few years ago. He was 33.

 

Dave Thomas said that he would decide he'd had enough of Butler's behavior by the end of the season but, like passing a car accident, every year he went back because he couldn't help staring at the wreckage.