ABC has confirmed that cornerstone comedies The Conners and The Goldbergs have been renewed for the 2021-22 season. The former heads into a fourth season after its leads recently signed new contracts complete with a pay raise, while the latter is set to spend a ninth season traipsing around the ’80s.
The Conners ranked as ABC’s top comedy for the 2020-21 season in total viewers (4.7 million) and adults 18-49 (0.9). This comes despite the show losing an hour of Same Day viewing by moving to 9:00 and the support of the local lead-in when it aired at 8:00. The series garnered mixed reception to the way it implemented COVID into its storytelling this season, as well as the way it handled the re-introduction and mention of characters from the original run of Roseanne.
The Goldbergs heads into its first full season without Pops, as George Seagal passed in March following complications from a bypass surgery. The series acknowledged the huge loss they suffered in a tribute video you can watch below.
The renewals are a part of ABC’s last-minute decision-making before they reveal their fall 2021 schedule on Tuesday. The Conners and The Goldbergs join fellow comedy renewal Black-ish in making it to next season, while Kyra Sedgwick comedy Call Your Mother wasn’t as lucky.
Do you think ABC should consider ending The Goldbergs next season? Should The Conners try for a lighter tone in its fourth season? Will both comedies stay in their scheduling spots next season or is ABC going to move one or both?
