As usual, American television will feature a series (by the producer of “Sex and the City”) intended to mock Christians and paint the womenfolk as back-biting hypocrites. Think Desperate Housewives conducting Bible study.UPDATE 2/24/12: ABC debuts "Good Christian Belles" March 4th (video):
-- From "ABC Lands Good Christian Bitches" posted at SpoilerTV.com 9/17/10
After a bidding war, ABC has nabbed the Darren Star-produced dramedy based on Kim Gatlin's book Good Christian Bitches. . . . [It] will be written by Steel Magnolias and The First Wives Club scribe Robert Harling . . . ABC, home to light female-centered fare like Desperate Housewives, was the obvious destination for the project, often described as "Desperate Housewives in Dallas."
It centers on Amanda Vaughn, a recently divorced mother of two who, to get a fresh start, moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew to find herself in the whirling midst of salacious gossip, Botox, and fraud.
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From "Critics Slam ABC Pilot 'Good Christian Bitches' for 'Inappropriate,' 'Damaging' Title" by Hollie McKay, FoxNews.com 3/4/11
An ABC pilot called “Good Christian Bitches” has religious and women’s groups up in arms over what they describe as an extremely offensive and distasteful show title.
Still in the early stages, the pilot has not been guaranteed a spot on ABC’s lineup. And though the show’s title may change before it goes to broadcast, “Good Christian Bitches” is already causing uproar.
Christian publisher Tessie DeVore told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column that the show, which features the tagline “For Heaven’s sake, don’t let God get in the way of a good story!” could put Christians in an unfairly bad light.
“I find the title offensive. I don’t think those two words should be combined,” she said. “A show like this can damage perceptions [of Christians in this country].”
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From "'Good Christian Bitches' Chronicles Back-Biting Christian Women" posted at NBC DFW 10/29/08
[Kim] Gatlin said it's not a tell-all [book], "My purpose here isn't to hand someone their head," she said. "If I do something like that, I'm not any better than the people I'm writing about."
Gatlin, who lives in Highland Park, set the book in Hillside Park, an upscale Dallas suburb. The characters are back-stabbing, church-going women who use Bible study as a forum for gossip.
"I've had people call me and ask me to pray for somebody and all they were trying to, or praying about, something for them," she said of drawing on her own experiences for the book. "I knew they were just trying to get their side of the story in front of me."
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