Roseanne spinoff set for autumn after Barr agrees to walk away from show

ABC, which cancelled its "Roseanne" revival over its star’s racist tweet, announced on Thursday it would air a Conner family sitcom minus Roseanne Barr this autumn.

The broadcaster ordered 10 episodes of the spinoff after Barr agreed to forgo any creative or financial participation in it.

In a statement issued by the show’s producer, Barr said she agreed to the settlement in order to save the jobs of 200 cast and crew members.

ABC said on Thursday the new series has the working title "The Conners" and will star John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and other "Roseanne" co-stars.

The revival of the hit 1988-97 sitcom "Roseanne" was axed by ABC after Barr posted a tweet likening former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to a product of the Muslim Brotherhood and "Planet of the Apes."

Barr later returned to Twitter to "apologise to the hundreds of people" who had "lost their jobs on my show due to my stupid tweet", saying she had written the tweet while under the influence of the sleeping drug Ambien.

The sitcom, which first aired from 1988-1997, became one of ABC's biggest hits when it was revived earlier this year; the revival's second season was expected to have earned the channel $60 million in advertising revenue.

Based on a character Barr created for her stand-up comedy performances, it followed the life of Rosanne Conner, the mother a working class American family living in Illinois.

ABC has not yet announced which show will replace Roseanne in its 8pm Tuesday slot, and it is expected that a Darlene-led spin-off would air in the same slot.