DAVE CAPLAN: Yeah. I finished my degree. It’s in media-related psychology. It’s how storytelling affects its audience. BRUCE HELFORD: We’re smart people. BRUCE RASMUSSEN: Or dancing monkeys.

Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Conners season 7, episode 1! The Conners executive producers Bruce Helford and Dave Caplan have explained why the sitcom's season 7 premiere revisits Roseanne's ...

Television writer and showrunner Dave Caplan, who is working with the CSUN Department of Cinema and Television Arts to help jumpstart a program to bring more diversity to the industry, is ...

In a way, Caplan and fellow executive producers Bruce Helford and Bruce Rasmussen were aware of the pitfalls that an end of a series can present, keeping it storyline-driven and character-driven ...

DAVE CAPLAN: Yeah. I finished my degree. It’s in media-related psychology. It’s how storytelling affects its audience. BRUCE HELFORD: We’re smart people. BRUCE RASMUSSEN: Or dancing monkeys.

Dave Caplan: I think Jackie, like a lot of the family, still struggles with the death of Roseanne Conner, and I think in everybody's mind they're trying to figure out what a fitting legacy would be.

Exec producer Dave Caplan added that they felt it was natural to include Roseanne so much on “The Conners” series finale because, “The truth is, we never really shied from giving Roseanne ...