Posted on 12/13/2018 2:36:19 PM PST by EdnaMode
ABC’s big, pricey Conners gamble appears to have paid off. TVLine has learned exclusively that the Alphabet net is eyeing a second season of the Roseanne spinoff, with preliminary talks underway between the network and the series’ primary on-camera players, including John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and Lecy Goranson.
Following a long summer that included Roseanne‘s abrupt cancellation, assorted Roseanne Barr explanations/apologies, cast reactions and industry speculation, The Conners debuted in October to 10.6 million total viewers and a 2.4 demo rating, down just a hair from where the Roseanne revival left off with its May finale (which did 10.6 mil and a 2.5).
After several weeks of declines, the show’s numbers appear to have leveled off at a still-strong-by-broadcast-standards 1.4 demo rating (in live viewing). By comparison, revivals of Will & Grace and Murphy Brown at NBC and CBS, respectively, have been pulling in roughly half that demo rating. Additionally The Conners — which has received mostly favorable reviews (including from TVLine) — currently ranks as ABC’s No. 1 comedy (with an average 1.6 rating), while placing No. 2 overall behind Grey’s Anatomy. The Conners is set to resume its inaugural 11-episode season on Jan. 8, with the finale set to air on Jan. 22.
An ABC spokesperson declined to comment for this story.
And sadly this likely means that more spinoffs, continuations and reboots are on the way.
Oh, this has nothing to do with ratings. If there was one person watching, ABC would renew it just to show that getting rid of that racist Rosanne, paid off. Therein lies liberlandia these days. Reality is what you pretend it.
You know, just like Dicks was reaping YUGE profits for canning the sale of AR-15’s.
The Connors may indeed be ABC's top ranked comedy and near the top for all channels, but that just speaks to the near death of sitcoms on TV as far as ratings are concerned.
We’re enjoying, “The Kids Are Alright”, “Last Man Standing”, and “The Cool Kids” (except for the little homo man) for sitcoms.
I had a bunch of Catholic friends back in the ‘60s, and the story lines of “The Kids Are Alright” take me back to my friends’ stories.
I’m not watching and have no desire to. I figured that they would get enough liberals to swap audiences. They would rather have less viewers than have more and have those viewers be conservative.
That’s a good point. They don’t want to be seen as losing.
They’ll do it without my help.
Yes, it's such a great success that they fired Channing Dungey (ABC President of entertainment) who caused it.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what’s known as ‘cooking the numbers’.
A 1.6 rating. Such great news. Reruns get better than that
That’s just really too bad. Thought is was being dumped.
“Using the 18-49 demographic. For instance, The Connors is at a 1.4 rating”
about 130 million people in the 18-49 demo, so 1.4% of that is 1.8 million viewers in the supposedly coveted demo ... truly pathetic numbers ...
The entire network’s ratings are disastrous.
so....in a timeslot filled by 3 retreads they are the least-horrible?
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