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The show led ABC\u2019s Tuesday night in the 8 p.m. half-hour spot, posting five-year highs for the network in the slot.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Conners<\/em> follows a family grappling with parenthood, divorce, dating, aging and financial pressures in working-class America. The series stars John Goodman as Dan Conner, Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris, Sara Gilbert as Darlene Conner, Lecy Goranson as Becky Conner-Healy and Ames McNamara as Mark Conner-Healy.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s first season featured a raft of guest appearances, including Matthew Broderick, Juliette Lewis, Katey Sagal, Mary Steenburgen, Justin Long, Jay R. Ferguson and Sarah Chalke, among others. Estelle Parsons will also reprise her role as Beverly Harris from Roseanne, alongside other fan favorites like Natalie West as Crystal Anderson and James Pickens Jr. as Chuck Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman comedy is from Werner Entertainment and executive produced by Tom Werner with Sara Gilbert, Bruce Helford, Dave Caplan, Bruce Rasmussen and Tony Hernandez all serving as executive producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has ordered a second season of the comedy The Conners, a spin-off of the network\u2019s classic show Roseanne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1049,"featured_media":9349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1995,1824],"class_list":["post-9347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-abc-television-network","tag-the-conners"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ABC Picks Up The Conners for Season Two - TVUSA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ABC has ordered a second season of the comedy The Conners, a spin-off of the network\u2019s classic show Roseanne.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/abc-picks-up-the-conners-for-season-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ABC Picks Up The Conners for Season Two - TVUSA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ABC has ordered a second season of the comedy The Conners, a spin-off of the network\u2019s classic show Roseanne.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/abc-picks-up-the-conners-for-season-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVUSA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-25T15:19:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-03-25T15:28:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/03\/The-Conners-ABC-0319-e1553527681658.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"462\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alison Skilton\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/abc-picks-up-the-conners-for-season-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/abc-picks-up-the-conners-for-season-2\/\",\"name\":\"ABC Picks Up The Conners for Season Two - TVUSA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-25T15:19:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-03-25T15:28:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\"},\"description\":\"ABC has ordered a second season of the comedy The Conners, a spin-off of the network\u2019s classic show Roseanne.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/abc-picks-up-the-conners-for-season-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/abc-picks-up-the-conners-for-season-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/abc-picks-up-the-conners-for-season-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ABC Picks Up The Conners for Season Two\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/\",\"name\":\"TVUSA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/#\/schema\/person\/f590d4d1481b8cce2a066e89197c7550\",\"name\":\"Alison Skilton\",\"description\":\"Alison Skilton is an associate editor of World Screen. 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