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'The Conners' EPs Reveal the 'Roseanne' Alums They Tried to Bring Back
The final season of 'The Conners' is wrapping up story lines for characters from the original 'Roseanne' sitcom — but not everyone returned
Ahead of the Wednesday, April 23, series finale, executive producer Bruce Helford listed some former Roseanne stars that were in consideration to make appearances on the spinoff, telling TVLine, “ Martin Mull passed before we had a chance to [bring back Leon]. “I don’t know what the hell else he was doing that was more important!” Caplan quipped before Helford added, “We did reach out to him numerous times and he said, ‘You know that I would, but if I do it for you guys, I gotta do it for everybody I’ve ever worked with who has a TV show because it would be wrong for me not to.’ So that was his out on that.” After being briefly revived in 2018 — and after star Roseanne Barr ’s eventual exit from the series amid controversial social media posts — the story transformed into The Conners.
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