'Roseanne' Minus Roseanne: ABC Picks Up 'The Conners'
ABC was widely praised for giving up a highly rated show on principle when it canceled its Roseanne reboot. It turns out it wasn't quite that simple.
ABC canceled its lucrative reboot of Roseanne in late May, after star Roseanne Barr published a tweet that compared Valerie Jarrett, a former aide to President Obama, to an ape. ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey called the tweet "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values." It looked like the network was willing to take a financial hit and part with a successful property in the name of, of all things, principle.
Not so fast.
On Thursday, the network announced that it is picking up the tentatively titled show It's a Roseanne-less . It went straight to series — meaning it
