For nearly a decade, viewers followed the exploits of the Conner family on the hit show Roseanne, which ran from 1988 to 1997, and again from March to May of 2018. The Conners were a blue-collar, working class family, unlike many of their wealthy television contemporaries. And, of course, the show was led by Roseanne Barr, who, along with John Goodman, was allowed to be overweight on television without being the butt of constant jokes. It really was a revolutionary show in those notable aspects, along with the depiction of LGBT+ characters.
The show was rebooted briefly in 2018, but was cancelled after Barr posted a racist tweet on her Twitter page — something she truly regrets. "I don't want to run off and blather on with excuses," she stated in an interview on Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's podcast (via Today). "But I apologize to anyone who thought, or felt offended, and who thought that I meant something that I, in fact, did not mean to my own ignorance, and I, there's no excuse for that ignorance."
ABC moved forward with a spin-off show called The Conners with the rest of the cast.
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