Trailer For New Roseanne Show Addresses Dan's Death

The Roseanne reboot comes to TV later this month, and now the first proper trailer for it has landed. "Some things aren't meant to change," reads the trailer's description.

The show brings back all the major Conner family actors, including Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), John Goodman (Dan), Laurie Metcalf (Aunt Jackie), Sara Gilbert (Darlene), Michael Fishman (D.J. Conner), Alicia Goranson (Becky), and others. Sarah Chalke, who played Becky on the original show after Goranson left to go to college in real life, will appear in the reboot as a new character. Johnny Galecki is coming back, too, but he's only going to be in one episode due to scheduling conflicts, according to Deadline. He now stars on the massively popular Big Bang Theory, so that makes sense.

In the finale of the original Roseanne, it was revealed that Dan actually died from a heart attack and that the previous season was a complete fictionalization that Roseanne came up with to help cope with the loss. It was pretty heavy stuff.

But Dan is back in the reboot. How? It's not exactly clear. But in the trailer, Roseanne loudly wakes up Dan and says to him, "I thought you were dead!" Then Dan replies, "Why does everybody always think I'm dead?" This confirms the new show will at least address the Dan situation, though it's not clear how far they'll go into it.

Roseanne returns on March 27 on ABC. The original show ran for 10 seasons from 1988 to 1997.