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The "Roseanne" Revival Is Headed To ABC

The Conners are coming home.

The Roseanne revival has landed at the show's original home, ABC. The eight-episode series will reunite most of the original stars including Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, and Laurie Metcalf, who are all on board to return.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Barr would executive produce, along with Tom Werner and Bruce Helford, who co-produced the seminal sitcom, which ran from 1988 to 1997.

Goodman's involvement may surprise some, since his character, Dan Conner, was revealed to have died of a heart attack in the series finale, which also revealed the ninth season was all in Roseanne's imagination.

In 2009, Barr wrote a blog post imagining where all the Conners were, and suggested Dan had faked his own death.

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Twenty years after it ended, Roseanne is still beloved by fans: Goodman and Gilbert recently reunited for a skit on CBS' The Talk, which Gilbert cohosts. (In 2012, Barr and Goodman reteamed in another sitcom, Downwardly Mobile, but the pilot was never picked up.)

Roseanne was also notable for bringing LGBT representations to television: Both Roseanne Conner's friend Nancy, and her mother, Beverly, came out as lesbians. The show aired one of the first same-sex kisses in prime time and, in Season 8, Roseanne's old boss Leon (Martin Mull) married his boyfriend, Scott (Fred Willard).

The Roseanne reunion was being shopped around Hollywood with ABC and Netflix reportedly in a bidding war over the project—but ABC won the rights to the revival.

“We’re rebooting Roseanne,” confirmed ABC president Channing Dungey. The new season will premiere midseason (most likely early 2018).

Roseanne airs weekdays on Logo.

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