Trying to slop the public with weak television fare after firing its star, Roseanne Barr, over a bad tweet, ABC's post-Roseanne 'The Conners' is not doing well in the ratings. According to Roger Friedman's Showbiz 411:

“The Conners” dropped in everything last night–total viewers, key demo. In the nightly ratings battle. the “Roseanne” spin off continues to trend downward.

Last night, “The Conners” was beaten by everything- “NCIS,” “The Voice,” etc. This was their first really objective run, no World Series, nothing to distract potential viewers.

But the key demo sank, which isn’t a good sign. And the total viewers were down by 180K, which is a lot, frankly. People are leaving and they’re not coming back.

This, despite the gushing reviews from the leftwing press about how good the Roseanne-free show was.

‘The Conners’ Is Almost Sweet Enough to Make Up for the ‘Roseanne’ Fiasco -Daily Beast

Without Roseanne, ‘The Conners’ move on with a new family dynamic that’s sharp, funny and cuts deep -Los Angeles Times

‘Roseanne’ Re-do Fills a TV Void -Rolling Stone

The latter's subhed gushed this:

The ghost of Roseanne Barr hung over its premiere, but strong writing and performances make this potentially awkward revamp one of fall’s most promising new series

Oh. And now we learn the audience is avoiding this show like a bad smell. Showbiz411 reports that the producers have ordered just one more show from the ten-series program, which it notes, sounds like a finale. What's more, the producer of the show, with a highly paid cast, which was highly paid primarily because of the starpower of Roseanne herself, has proven a drain on the show's money-making capacity in the original. Worse still, with just 11 in the series, Werner TV cannot syndicate it, which is where the real money in television comes from. It can only tack on the audience-rejected shows to the existing syndication packages.

Which raises questions as to why it was so loathed. Based on what I've found, it's in the heaping helpings of political correctness.

One, there was its 'eat your peas' origins in the very firing of the show's star, Roseanne Barr. As I wrote at the time:

Because firing Roseanne was an astoundingly dumb call, amounting to shutting off the TV set of the public for the sake of virtue-signalling to PBS-watching whites, and obviously it was noticible to the public, given that large numbers of them enjoyed that show. What a coincidence: Polls from a new book shows that more than 80% of the entire public (across racial lines) can't stand political correctness. I wouldn't be surprised if this show shutdown had something to do with it.