Is Roseanne-Less "Conners" Being Cancelled?

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Rumors began circulating online this week that the Roseanne Barr-less
reboot of the "Roseanne" reboot was likely going to be cancelled after
just 11 episodes, but the reality is that ABC has given no word on what
it plans to do with "The Conners."

The rumor got going in part from a comment by ShowBiz411 about ABC
suspiciously ordering just one more episode in addition to the first
run of ten.

"ABC has ordered 1 extra episode to the original order of 10," noted
Roger Friedman. "Sounds to me like a finale," he speculated, then
joked: "Someone wakes up and says they dreamt Roseanne died. There’s a
cackle from the next room. Fade to black."

Friedman's suggestion followed his breakdown of "The Conners" ratings
thus far, which he suggested are trending down in problematic fashion.
The show "dropped in everything last night–total viewers, key demo," he
wrote. Its big Halloween episode was "beaten by everything- 'NCIS,'
'The Voice,' etc." while the show lost ground in the key demo and total
viewers, which were "down by 180K."

Friedman also noted just how costly the cast of the show is for ABC.
According to Variety's numbers, John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, and Sara
Gilbert are each paid $375,000 per episode. Add the salaries of the
other key cast members and you're talking big money.

The Hollywood Reporter had a different take on the show's ratings,
which it noted "improved a little" over the last week (numbers likely
impacted by the World Series) and fared pretty well against the
competition. But as The Wrap's breakdown shows, Friedman is correct
about "The Conners" losing out to most of the competition in its time
slot.

While the Roseanne-free show drew 7.7 million viewers for ABC, "The
Voice" drew 8.8 million for NBC, and "NCIS" drew 12.1 million over at
CBS. "The Gifted" drew just 2 million for Fox.

Overall, NBC won the ratings war Tuesday night "with a 1.7 rating/7
share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic and second in total
viewers with an average of 8.1 million, according to preliminary
numbers," The Wrap reports. CBS and ABC tied in the ratings (1.1/5),
but CBS beat out ABC significantly in total viewers, 9.7 million
compared to ABC's 4.9 million. Fox came in a distant fourth, with a
0.6/3 and with 2.4 million viewers.

As The Daily Wire reported, "The Conners" premiere only managed about
half of the total viewers of the premiere of "Roseanne":

"Roseanne," starring the pro-Trump Roseanne Barr, shocked the
television world back in March by earning a stunning 18.2
million viewers (5.1 rating in the key demo) in its debut.
Before the show came to a screeching halt after Barr
infamously tweeted that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
was the love child of the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of
the Apes," viewership had tapered off to a still solid 10.3
million (2.4 rating).

"The Conners" opened Tuesday at about where "Roseanne" left
off. "The debut airing delivered 10.5 million viewers and a
2.3 rating among adults 18-49," Entertainment Weekly's James
Hibberd reports. "That’s down 55 percent from the premiere
of Roseanne last spring, but was on par with Roseanne‘s finale
and even managed to edge out NBC’s This Is Us for the night."



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