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Roseanne Reboot Flops Without Roseanne; "The Conners" Dead Last In Ratings

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ABC's reboot of the Roseanne show is a total flop - coming in dead last in ratings this week, according to Showbiz 411which adds that just one more episode has been ordered

In the nightly ratings battle. the "Roseanne" spin off continues to trend downward.

Last night, "The Conners" was beaten by everything- "NCIS," "The Voice," etc. This was their first really objective run, no World Series, nothing to distract potential viewers.

But the key demo sank, which isn't a good sign. And the total viewers were down by 180K, which is a lot, frankly. People are leaving and they're not coming back

ABC has ordered 1 extra episode to the original order of 10. Sounds to me like a finale. Someone wakes up and says they dreamt Roseanne died. There's a cackle from the next room. Fade to black. -Showbiz 411

In an addendum, Showbiz 411 notes that Variety reported the salaries of John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf and Sara Gilbert at $375,000 per episode, while the other cast members can't be cheap either. "The Conners' has to be added to "Roseanne"'s syndication package eventually– it will never reach 100 episodes and have its own package. So Werner TV is in trouble, with millions going out and not enough coming back. "The Conners" is doomed,Showbiz 411 added. 

The Roseanne reboot - which quickly grew to become ABC's #1 top-rated series in April, was canceled after the network suddenly fired star Roseanne Barr after she compared former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to if the "Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes had a baby." Her comments were condemned as "abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values." 

Barr, 65, was fired before a single advertiser pulled out, just three months into the show's return. Her co-stars immediately turned on her, publicly shunning Roseanne, while ABC initially cancelled the show - before bringing it back as The Conners


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