Given the death of actor Glenn Quinn, just about everything involving Mark Healy is up in the air, but the name homage is a good sign that the show will handle things respectfully.
Roseanne brought Emma Kenney in as the second new character added for the ABC revival, with the aforementioned younger brother as the first.
Now if they could only confirm that David will be returning, since Johnny Galecki’s Big Bang Theory commitments make things a little tough on that end.
Young actor Ames McNamara was previously cast to play the second-born brother Mark, who was named after David’s brother, who would presumably still be Becky’s husband when the new episodes kick off.