Ultimately, we as a society have become too politically correct. If you tried to make a show like Love Thy Neighbour or Mind Your Language that poked fun at racism and cultural conflicts, network execs would turn you away for fear of offending someone.
Even if what Roseanne said was considered as a joke, these days it wouldn’t matter as someone may get offended
In america CMC have started re-playing repeats of Roseanne original series on their channel. I know another channel has too. They waited until the shit storm and then returned the show back to it’s schedule, only happened a month ago.
Ten shot themslves in the foot though to even air The Conners without airing the remaining eps of the revival series is a shit thing to do. Don’t think The Conners will have a good audience anyway for Australian viewers.