With Desperate Housewives on the way out and after the disappointing performance of Pan Am, ABC needs new shows for the Sunday night schedule. Have they found a success in GCB or will it also be cancelled?
GCB revolves around former high-school mean-girl Amanda Vaughn (Leslie Bibb). Now a widow with two children, she returns to her former Texas hometown to live with her mother (Annie Potts). Amanda comes face to face with the former schoolmates that she used to mock and tries to make amends and build a new life. Other castmembers include Jennifer Aspen, Marisol Nichols, Miriam Shor, David James Elliott, Mark Deklin, Brad Beyer, and Kristin Chenoweth.
The series debuted on March 4th to a 2.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.56 million total viewers. It was in second place for the timeslot, behind NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice. Compared to the (series) finale of Pan Am however, ABC was up by 83% in the all-important demo.
While most shows experience a decline in week two, GCB’s demo actually rose to a 2.3 rating. The third week’s demo fell 13% but the show was in first place in the timeslot.
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The numbers have fluctuated up and down over the course of the season and a couple weeks ago, it fell to a low 1.5 rating with 4.43 million. Sunday’s installment however (per the overnights) rebounded to a 1.9 demo rating, a rise of 26%.
This season has averaged a mediocre 1.9 in the demo with 5.92 million. That’s just 12% better than Pan Am. On our ABC Ratings Report Card, GCB gets a “C-” and is certainly “on the bubble.”
However, the alphabet network has a history of renewing one or two struggling freshman shows each year. Castle and Happy Endings have benefited from that strategy and the gambles have paid off.
Will GCB be renewed for a second season? It could go either way but, with ABC still being in need of new hour-long shows, it seems likely that GCB will end up on the schedule next year.
But, what do you think? Are you watching GCB each week? Do you realistically think that it will be back next fall or end up being cancelled?
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RENEW! I AM ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED! I MAY EVEN GO BACK TO CHURCH!
Please renew – love the southern, christian humor!
I love GCB! Please renew it!
I would miss GCB! It’s one of the best written and funniest shows I’ve seen, and I would hate for it to be cancelled before it has the chance to develop further and to develop the audience it deserves. I’ve been recommending it to everyone I know, and if they give it a chance, I know they’ll like it.
LOVE this show! One of my fave! I def hope its renewed!
My daughter and i LOVE this show. Absolutely hilarious. The BBQ competition episode and the episode where they get kidnapped, were so funny. I hope so much they renew this show. So great! I am not a super religious person, but I find the religious humor Hilarious. It kind of reminds me of Steven Colbert Humor, very ironic and over-the-top which comes out so funny.
Deep six GCB, and bring back Pan Am, I say!
RENEW RENEW RENEW!!!!!!
My DVR is set every Sunday night for this show. I love it. Keep this show around!!!! Kristin Chenworth deserves her star to shine and it does!!!!!!
I think GCB is great – I know women like this in Southern Churches – sure the characters are over the top, but there is a grain of truth in every one. I love it – please keep it going!
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I loved the show there were one or two episodes that could have been better but over all it was great. Please renew there are so few good shows. And I hate all those reality shows they take too many slots and cause good shows to get cancelled.
GCB is Two Thumbs Up For Me……Please Renew.
R u kidding ?…. Renew….it’s rediculus. Maybe take a lesson from USA Network
Cancel GCB! Two shows with “B” in the title? Really, ABC? Walt must be rolling in his grave for Disney to have any kind of association with what this network has become. Watching GCB causes viewers to lose an IQ point for every minuted viewed. The show isn’t funny. It’s extremely annoying. Canceling the show is the least you can do to atone for your sin of ever airing it to begin with.