The Conners series finale used archive footage of every main Roseanne cast member except Roseanne Barr - but what was the reason for the exclusion? Executive producers Bruce Helford, Dave Caplan and Bruce Rasmussen weighed in on the ABC sitcom coming to an end without showing Barr on screen.

Roseanne Barr had no idea The Conners ended its run on ABC, her son has revealed. The spinoff sitcom wrapped its seventh and final season on April 23, seven years after Barr parted ways from the original Roseanne series amid a racist tweet scandal.

Now, Roseanne Barr has broken her silence about the finale through her son Jake Pentland. Barr’s Son Sounds Off Barr, 72, was reportedly not aware that The Conners was ending. The show was a spinoff of her own legendary sitcom Roseanne,