'The Conners': ABC is afraid 'Roseanne' spin-off will flop when it debuts next week without Roseanne Barr
Two ABC senior execs revealed that firing Roseanne Barr from 'Roseanne' reboot was a hasty decision and suggest it would've been wiser to temporarily suspend Barr instead
Top ABC senior executives might have acted too quick when they recently removed Roseanne Barr from the show 'Roseanne' and they are now worried that the show's spin-off 'The Conners' will fail without the star.
In an interview with DailyMail, two senior executives revealed that firing the actress was a hasty decision by ABC's president and unveiled that the wiser decision would have been to temporarily suspend Barr. "We didn't think it through properly. What Roseanne did was wrong but we shouldn't have rushed to fire her. It was almost a knee-jerk reaction by Ben [Sherwood] and Channing [Dungey] who should have launched an investigation," said an insider.