Now that The Conners is over, it's fair to say the show never replaced Roseanne. What's surprising is that this may have made the series stronger.

The Conners made a mistake by not bringing back one major Roseanne star whose presence could have changed an entire storyline ...

Sarah Chalke played Becky on "Roseanne." Metcalf, who was doing a play in New York when she got Gilbert's call, said that as a fan of the show she wanted to see what the Conners would be to in 2018.

In 1988, at the age of 13, she went on her second audition in Chicago and landed the role of Becky Conner on ABC’s “Roseanne.” In 1992, she left the show to attend Vassar College, where she ...

We were kids, so we would do little things like that,” she added. Alicia Goranson and Roseanne Barr, on the ABC Television Network comedy "Roseanne," on the "Becky's Choice" episode, Feb. 28, 1989.

“Roseanne” and “The Conners ” had an almost magical ability to speak to the haves and the have-nots. The shows invited the wealthy to laugh with, not at, working-class struggles, which ...