Whitney Cummings will not be returning as co-showrunner of Roseanne. Cummings’ co-showrunner Bruce Helford broke the news during a conference call with reporters on Friday morning, saying Cummings would not be back for the show’s second revival season and its eleventh overall.
The show scored an early renewal back in March. Cummings was an executive producer on the first revival season along with series stars Roseanne Barr and Sarah Gilbert as well as Tom Werner, Helford, and Tony Hernandez.
Roseanne is poised to finish the 2017-18 broadcast season as television’s highest rated program in the 18-49 demo, where it is averaging a 3.6 rating, acording to Nielsen live-plus-same numbers. The series was heavily touted at ABC’s upfront presentation to advertisers Tuesday at Lincoln Center in New York, where Barr introduced Disney ABC Television Group chairman Ben Sherwood.
Cummings is a veteran standup comic who co-created the multi-camera CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls for Warner Bros. Television and created and starred in her own sitcom Whitney, which aired for two seasons on NBC.
