CW To Revive “Good Christian Bitches”

In 2011 ABC announced the development of a TV series based on the novel, Good Christian Bitches. GCB is a sort of modern-day Harper Valley PTA, about a recently widowed woman who moves her family back to the wealthy, ostensibly Christian, Dallas suburb where she grew up, and gets pulled into the same cliquish, gossipy, backbiting, manipulative behavior she thought she left behind her in high school.Beyond the patently offensive title, GCB managed to be both misogynistic and anti-Christian at the same time, indulging in the tired trope of the hypocritical Christian who praises God on Sunday and then spends the rest of the week engaging in every vice and sin under the sun; while simultaneously playing-up every stereotype of vain, selfish, self-indulgent “mean girls” who will do anything to destroy any woman they perceive as a threat.The PTC came out against the series even before the 2012 debut, and was in contact with the program’s sponsors, calling them out for their support of the series. ABC wisely pulled the plug on it after only 10 episodes.But that tarnished history isn’t going to stop the CW from trying to resuscitate it.This week, CW announced plans for a GCB reboot – and it seems the reboot will be worse than the original, because it will be explicitly teen-targeted.The CW version of GCB will be set “At a prestigious private Christian high school in Dallas, a war stoking the student body’s social divides erupts when the new girl on campus, the atheist daughter of a minister, inadvertently tangles with three good Christian girls who blame her for ruining their lives.”PTC is putting advertisers on warning now: We will be publicly calling-out any and all who choose to underwrite this new series.