G.C.B.

[Spinderella]

Can't Lifetime pick it up? Heh.

[Witchie]

I wish someone would pick it up. It's so much fun! And I want more Pastor Tudor, Gigi & Cricket!

[sumire]

May 14, 2012 10:44:27 GMT -4 Mugsy said:

Stupid network. For me, there was too much competition on Sunday night for the same viewers (women, in this case) - GCB, Desperate Housewives, The Good Wife, Once Upon a Time, Amazing Race (women love that show). All in one night - it's too much.

Also, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Masterpiece. Sunday is usually the night my mom and I watch the same(ish) shows and call each other, but it's a complicated set of shifting priorities.

I'm a little sad to hear GCB was cancelled, but on further consideration, now that Desperate Housewives is over, I'm not sure I'd go out of my way to watch GCB without DH as a lead-in. I'd probably only watch it if there was nothing else on.

I was not thrilled about Amanda kissing Pastor Puppydog. I mean, they're good for each other in a lot of ways, but man, Carlene's brother was good-looking. Anybody else is a step down after that.

Plus, GCB was poorly marketed. They pissed off the fundies with the name, who of course they couldn't be bothered to watch to see what the show was actually about.

Apparently the show was heavily advertised on The Onion AV Club, for some reason. (Or maybe it was heavily advertised online all over the place.) I didn't see the ads because I have Adblock on, but I read a lot of confused/annoyed comments about it.

Network execs are such morons. Instead of spending a few bucks advertising the crap out of an existing show that has a good concept and great cast, they dump it and start over. Doesn't development cost them a lot? Why not focus on what's already there?
And yet, there are endless versions of reality shows about singing, dancing, modeling or finding Mr./Ms. Right. Do they get good ratings? Yet, they keep churning them out.

Actually, I think they _do_ get good ratings, plus they're cheap to produce. The main reason why Sunday was the night my mom and I watch the same shows is that the rest of the week, she's watching Dancing with the Stars, America's Got Talent, and The Bachelor(ette), and no amount of parental pressure can get me to watch that shit (and god knows my mom tries.)

(I exaggerate, BTW. Other shows my mom and I both watch: Grey's Anatomy, Hawaii 5-0, any Dateline/48 Hours/20/20 show about husbands and wives murdering each other.)