Cult ABC’s sitcom Roseanne is making its return to television tonight. The first season of the revival comes 20 years after the original show ended its run, with nine episodes in store. According to the show’s star and creator, Roseanne Barr, if the audience responds well to them, more could follow.
“We’d love it to continue if people like it, then we hope it will,” said Barr to E! News.
Most of the original cast including Barr, John Goodman, Sarah Gilbert, Lecy Goranson, Michael Fishman and Laurie Metcalf are involved in the revival, and they are all thrilled about the opportunity to continue the show’s story. They have revealed that the talks about the revival kicked off after the cast appeared on Gilbert’s talk show The Talk, and then everything was sorted out quickly.
“Three weeks later we had a deal and we were at some publicity thing in New York,” said Goodman.
“It was really fast,” Barr added.
Roseanne ran from 1987 to 1997 and focused on Conners, the working-class American family living in Illinois. According to John Goodman, the audience will find the family right where they left it 20 years ago.
“In some ways, they’re thriving,” he said. “They’re better off than a lot of people. They’re still struggling, but they have their family and they have their friends and they’re still trying to put it together.”
One question that is keeping the audience on their toes is how will the revival explain the return of Dan Conner, who died in the series finale that aired in 1997. According to the cast, all the events from the finale will be properly explained including Dan’s death. So tune in on Tuesday and find out everything.
