The Roseanne retooling The Conners won’t be returning to screens this week, prompting many fans to wonder when the next episode will air. Many major TV shows are currently on hiatus, with everything from Legacies to The Simpsons season 33 not airing any new episodes until the end of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. This will also affect Roseanne retooling The Conners, although not in the way that some regular viewers may expect.

The Conners season 4 has been reliably releasing new episodes weekly for the last few months, but no new outing of the show will air on Wednesday, January 26th. The next episode will be delayed by one week, which will be followed by another brief hiatus. The reasoning behind The Conners season 4 schedule is rooted in the airdates of the Winter Games.

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The next episode of The Conners, “Hot For Teacher and Writing a Wrong” (season 4, episode 12), will air on February 2nd. However, fans hoping to get more closure on Mark’s season 4 Conners story or the ongoing relationship dilemmas of Ben and Darlene will have to wait a while after that outing. Due to the Winter Olympics running until February 20th, The Conners season 4 will not air any more new episodes until February 23rd. This break may provide the show time to decide how Ben and Darlene’s inconsistent “will they, won’t they” dynamic will play out, particularly since a season 5 renewal looks likely thanks to the sitcom’s impressive ratings performance.

Regardless of how The Conners season 4 uses this break, the show will be in good company. Many major network television shows are on hiatus during the period thanks to the popularity of the Olympics. The Conners (formerly Roseanne) is just one of many hits affected by the schedule. However, this is not the first time that The Conners has been put on hiatus. Back in 2018, after former series star Roseanne Barr tweeted racist remarks, the actor was let go from the show. The Roseanne revival was subsequently retooled into The Conners, with the new show killing off Barr’s character and focusing on the rest of her fictional family.

The retooling was a success, continuing to pull in impressive ratings, and reviews were barely affected by Barr’s absence. However, as The Conners entered its fourth season, some cracks in the formula began to show. Dan and Louise’s Conners wedding never mentioned his ex-wife, a weird detail that proves the series still struggles with the circumstances of Barr’s exit. Since then, however, The Conners has made a handful of ribald jokes about Roseanne being in Hell and the showrunners have clarified that they have nos issue with mentioning the former lead character. As a result, many Roseanne fans have been happy with The Connersseason 4 regaining the same tone as the earlier sitcom hit, resulting in viewers who are eager to see the series return in February.

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Cathal Gunning has been writing about movies and TV online since 2020. His obsessions include The Simpsons, Stephen King, the Scream series, and the horror genre in general. He has spent more time thinking about Stranger Things than the writers of Stranger Things, and he has never seen a Star War.

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