The Conners Renewed by ABC for 7th and Final Season 

The Conners is gearing as much as take its last bow.

ABC renewed the collection for a seventh season on Friday, Might 10, which can function its final. The ultimate season will reportedly be shorter than earlier installments and encompass six episodes, in line with Selection.

ABC declined to touch upon season 7’s episode order.

“You’ve been a part of this household for years. After 6 seasons, be there to say goodbye,” ABC captioned a trailer sharing the announcement on YouTube Friday.

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The sitcom premiered in October 2018 as a substitute for the Roseanne continuation that started that March. The present was compelled to pivot after 9 episodes when collection star Roseanne Barr exited the collection after receiving criticism for racially insensitive social media posts. Barr, 71, has since apologized for making a “dangerous joke” about White Home aide Valerie Jarrett’s look and politics.

After Barr departed the present, The Conners targeted on the remainder of the household as they confronted life after the matriarch’s on-screen dying. The collection stars John Goodman as Dan Conner, Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris, Sara Gilbert as Darlene Conner, Lecy Goranson as Becky Conner-Healy, Emma Kenney as Harris Conner-Healy, Ames McNamara as Mark Conner-Healy and Jay R. Ferguson as Ben Olinsky. The Conners was renewed for a second season within the spring of 2018.

“Whereas we want the perfect for the forged and manufacturing crew of The Conners, all of whom are deeply devoted to their craft and had been Roseanne’s cherished colleagues, we remorse that ABC selected to cancel Roseanne by killing off the Roseanne Conner character,” Barr and her rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, informed Us Weekly in a press release after the premiere in 2018. “That it was executed by way of an opioid overdose lent an pointless grim and morbid dimension to an in any other case joyful household present.”

Six years after her exit, Barr opened up concerning the sitcom persevering with with out her, telling The Los Angeles Occasions in February 2023 that she “simply can’t bear” to look at, so she doesn’t tune in.

“After they killed my character off, that was a message to me, figuring out that I’m mentally unwell or have psychological well being points, that they did need me to commit suicide,” she informed the outlet. “They killed my character. … And all of that was to say thanks for bringing 28 million viewers, which they by no means had earlier than and can by no means see once more. As a result of they’ll kiss my a—.”

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The remainder of the forged, in the meantime, have usually expressed their gratitude that the present has been in a position to proceed regardless of the drama.

“I used to be actually excited, and I didn’t know what to anticipate within the sense of everybody coming again collectively,” Kenney, 24, gushed solely to Us with reference to returning to The Conners for a second season. “I’m actually grateful that it got here collectively the way in which it did, and I’m actually excited for the tales that we’re telling this season. … It was a cheerful second seeing everybody once more, and I’m actually joyful that we’re all again collectively, and I do know everybody has one another’s backs.”

She continued, “Everybody could be very skilled. Everybody could be very variety, and it’s simply an excellent group of individuals working collectively. All of us have very related sorts of motives and agendas. And, we all know the tales that we wish to inform this season, and this is identical household – the Conner household – and I’m actually wanting ahead to telling extra of their tales and their lives.”

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Season 6 of The Conners premiered in February, with the collection celebrating its a centesimal episode final month. On the time, showrunner Bruce Helman informed Deadline that there have been “no long-term contracts” for the present, because the forged and crew have continued to go season-by-season and “see what occurs after that.” He added that he was crafting the tip of season 6 to work as a collection finale, if vital.

“We’ve obtained a last episode which may be one or the opposite. We find it irresistible,” he informed the outlet. “Properly, we will promise you this, no matter it’s, it won’t be what folks count on, as a result of we satisfaction ourselves on doing that. And so it will likely be surprising, and it will likely be emotional.”

The Conners airs on ABC Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET.