Utah native Roseanne Barr torpedoed her career back in May with a racist tweet, but her sitcom lives on without her. “The Conners” debuts Tuesday at 7 p.m. on ABC/Channel 4, and it’s the same family, the same actors, the same sorts of situations — without the character that used to be at the center of the whole thing.
We all know what happened to the real Roseanne; I’m not going to tell you what happened to the fictional Roseanne. I don’t believe in spoilers, and I agreed to ABC’s terms so that I could watch the first and fourth episodes of “The Conners” — promising that I wouldn’t even “imply or in any other way reveal what happens to the character of Roseanne Conner.