Roseanne Barr unloaded on ABC during a recent return to the stage. The outspoken comedian performed a surprise stand-up routine on March 16, at the Laugh Factory Las Vegas during a set by fellow comedian Andrew Dice Clay. Before revealing he would be joined by Barr, Clay said a close friend of “about 33 years” was…

Will ABC’s The Conners be back next season? One of its stars thinks so. Laurie Metcalf told Entertainment Tonight that a sophomore run for the Roseanne spinoff is in play. "I believe it’s going to happen," she told ET‘s Lauren Zima before Sunday’s Critics’ Choice Awards. "I think we’ll do between 10 and 13 [episodes]…

In 2018, a TV actor gender pay parity still was being debated, a TV journalist thought blackface could be defended on grounds of “Halloween,” and a TV ad campaign featuring a man known for kneeling to protest deaths of unarmed U.S. citizens triggered a national outbreak of gym sock logo cutting. Also, a network fired…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Williams and John Pasquin, a writing, directing and producing team behind, together or singly, Roseanne, Home Improvement and Last Man Standing, are heading Off Broadway. Pasquin will direct Williams’ comic play Actually, We’re F**ked at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village this…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of the The Conners debut last night. UPDATE, 3:14 PM: For the beginning of The Conners, the final numbers saw a little bit of ratings movement for the spinoff that brought it to a near tie with the end of Roseanne. Up a tenth from the fast affiliates of this morning, the…

[SPOILER ALERT: This report contains details of the The Conners premiere tonight.] Five cast members from The Conners and producer Tom Werner watched the show’s live East Coast premiere at the Paley Center just before a PaleyFest New York panel discussion about the unlikely re-reboot and how Roseanne Conner met her…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the The Conners debut tonight. "Pierce Brosnan is a much better singer than he gets credit for," proclaims Michael Fishman's DJ Conner while listening to the Mamma Mia soundtrack in one of the closest to genuinely funny lines of the Roseanne spinoff set to premiere on…

The stakes couldn’t be higher for tomorrow night’s premiere of The Conners, the Roseanne spinoff series starring John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf and Sara Gilbert. Conceived under extraordinary circumstances in the fallout of Roseanne‘s abrupt cancellation following star Roseanne Barr’s controversial Valerie Jarrett…

More than four months after the Tweet That Ended the Roseanne Revival, a trio of the show’s stars are speaking out about it. John Goodman, Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf — whose spinoff series The Conners premieres October 16 — told People in an interview where they first heard the news and how they reacted to…

ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey says she has “no regrets” about greenlighting the Roseanne revival,even months after she was forced to fire the show’s star over a racist tweet. Dungey said she was surprised that Roseanne Barr’s ouster, which thrust a behind-the-scenes executive into the spotlight, became a…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the revival of Murphy Brown, debuting tomorrow on CBS. This review originally ran on September 26 Shined up with tweets about dating Donald Trump, fourth-wall-cracking quips and Roseanne implosion asides, the revival of Murphy Brown is very meta. Yet despite those lofty…

Juliette Lewis is set for a guest-starring role in The Conners, ABC's spinoff of its revived-then-canceled comedy hit Roseanne. Lewis will appear opposite Roseanne alum Johnny Galecki’s David as Blue, David’s girlfriend who was referenced last season on the Roseanne revival. Lewis first shared the news on Instagram…