‘The Conners’ Renewed For Season 6 At ABC
deadline.comThe Conners are sticking around at ABC. The series has been renewed for its sixth season, the network announced Tuesday. The news comes on the heels of the Season 5 finale, which marked a successful Wednesday night for ABC with 3.6M viewers tuning in on May 4.
The Conners has continued to be one of ABC’s highest-rated sitcoms. The Roseanne spinoff kicked off Season 5 with a premiere that drew 3.7M live+same-day viewers and a 0.53 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
Overall, the season averaged about 3.8M live+same-day viewers per episode and a 0.5 in the demo. Executive producer Bruce Helford had previously hinted that Season 6 may be the series’ last.
Ahead of the Season 5 finale, he told TVLine: “Sara Gilbert expressed to the network that we don’t want to go out without knowing that we are going out with a series finale so we can build to the right ending — and at this point in time, we feel that [next season] is possibly going to be the last season of The Conners.” But, never say never.
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