Long before she was a teenage actress holding her snarky own in Roseanne, before heading a panel of women sharing their perspectives on The Talk, and before the Roseanne reboot reconfigured into The Conners, Sara Gilbert found her voice as a performer. Specifically, during an elementary school performance of The Wizard…

The Conners executive producers Sara Gilbert and Tom Werner have teamed up to launch a production company, sara + tom. The duo has tapped Mandy Summers as Head of Production and Development. Gilbert and Werner’s working relationship dates back over 25 years, when 13-year-old Gilbert was cast as Darlene in the original…

CBS’ The Talk finally confirmed on air that Marie Osmond is taking the seat left vacant by the exit of Sara Gilbert. Osmond is joining Eve, Carrie Ann Inaba, Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood. She’s no stranger to the show, having guest hosted more than 40 times over the years. Gilbert announced last month she is…

The Conners‘ Sara Gilbert is set for a recurring role on the third season of Atypical, Netflix’s critically praised series from creator/executive producer Robia Rashid and director/executive producer Seth Gordon. Atypical, from Sony Pictures TV, is a coming of age story that follows Sam (played by Keir Gilchrist), an…

UPDATED with video: CBS’ The Talk creator/EP Sara Gilbert announced at the top of Tuesday’s broadcast that she is leaving the daily show at the end of the season. “This is something I have been struggling with for a while, and going back and forth, but I’ve decided it’s time for me to leave the show,” Gilbert…

During ABC's Women of Comedy panel at Deadline's The Contenders Emmys on Sunday, audiences heard from The Connors star Sara Gilbert, writer and producer from Jimmy Kimmel Live Molly McNearney and The Kids Are Alright star Mary McCormack. Gilbert opened up about being tasked last year with rebooting Roseanne, the…

Roseanne Barr is continuing to stir the pot during her ongoing semi-apology, semi-defiant interviews. In the latest edition, Barr spoke to the Washington Post and revealed that she was suicidal and spent time after being fired from her namesake show "holed up in her mom's basement in Utah, chain-smoking and in…

EXCLUSIVE: Two months after the Season 1 finale of The Conners, ABC’s multi-camera comedy is inching closer to a second-season pickup. I have learned that the three principal cast members of the Roseanne spinoff, Sara Gilbert who also serves as an executive producer, John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf, have closed new…

Continuing the story of the Conner family without its matriarch was a risky proposition, and, thankfully for ABC, it worked. Spinoff series The Conners has done well and, not surprisingly, ABC would like a second installment. I hear negotiations are underway with the core cast for a 13-episode Season 2. That would be…

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…

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…

Here we go again! Rosie O’Donnell will guest host/audition for the open seat on CBS’ daytime program The Talk on Friday. Carrie Ann Inaba also is guest hosting that day on the program; Sara GIlbert is off for the Friday broadcast. Pundits say O’Donnell is in the running to replace Julie Chen, who announced moments…