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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What a great show. When I watch, I see some of use in each character. I hope that you don’t cancel this show. Where else can we laugh about ourselves. Rethink if you are thinking about canceling.
This show is so funny and the characters are awesome. I was shocked when I heard that ABC was even considering cancellation. This is one of the best shows on their network in years.
Love this show. We watch it every week. I can’t understand why this is even a question.
This show is great. Please renew it. I look forward to watching it every week.
Please don’t cancel this show I luv it. All the good shows are over and it kinds sucks.
GCB is the greatest show ever! I saw so many different directions for the show that my friends and i were betting on how Cricket’s life was about to change!!! BRING GCB BACK PLEASE!!!
Please dont cancel the show we need drams now that Desprate Housewifes are gone!!!!I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!
GCB was a great show. ABC just lost one viewer. Big mistake…. BIG! I was an avid follower of Desperate Housewives and GCB was going to replace it as my sunday night show… Now I guess I will have to watch one of the other, better run networks.
Love the show. PALEEEZ keep it on the air. Makes me roll with laughter every Sunday night, and boy do we need something like that right now!!!!
For crying out loud, GCB is the funniest series on the tube! Why cancel it because some frothing at the mouth Talibangelicals don’t like it? If they don’t like it, they don’t have to watch it and can leave it for the 5.7 million of the rest of us who love the show!
ABC once again bows to the pressure of GCB’S for real. Canceling yet another program because it “may” offend these nameless people is ridiculous. I am really getting close to saying good-by to ABC for good. I have been an avid ABC viewer for most of my life, however, whomever is making programming decisions at ABC these days might need to be “cancelled” themselves!
Please please renew. Great show. Lots of fun.
Please DON”T CANCEL GCB!!!!! Desperate Housewives is going after all these years and this show has the same type of humor! I believe God has a sense of humor. You don’t have to uptight and never smile or not have fun, to be a Christian. I think this show is better than certain reality shows in which rich people sit and gossip and talk behind backs of their so called friends or looking for a mate for life out of a group of people by making out or sleeping with a different person every day, just to weed through them… Read more »
I Hope and wish they renew GCB. It’s a great new show. Since the first episode, it became my favorite show fast. It’s a show that deserves to be on TV. I hear lots of people talking about it. It’s smart, well written, funny, and everyone is very good looking.
PLEASE dont cancel this show!! I am a HUGE fan and I watch it religiously. It is hilarious and heartfelt. Its SO good. I really needed this after OTH ended. GCB was my new show and I am going to be devastated if it goes
Please let me know what I can do to keep this show on the air!
Thank you and GCB forever!!