The series premiered in 2018 as a spinoff for Roseanne Barr‘s long running sitcom, Roseanne, but it was swiftly canceled after just nine episodes when Barr shared a racist socia

In 2018, Barr was fired, and the reboot of her self-titled show was canceled amid a racist tweet scandal. The rest of the cast moved on to The Conners spinoff, which kicked off later that year with the revelation that Barr’s character had died.