On Sunday, the ABC television network will broadcast the first episode of a new Dallas-set program called GCB. That title was settled upon after the name of the book on which the show is based, Good Christian Bitches, was deemed unacceptable, and after the replacement title, Good Christian Belles, was deemed stupid.
None of this is news to you, of course. You were among the first to buy Kim Gatlin’s novel when it was published in 2008, and you tried to figure out which characters in the book’s “Hillside Park” were thinly veiled facsimiles of which real people in Highland Park. D Magazine made its best guesses in the December 2008 issue. While some of the characters have been altered and others added for the television adaptation, the protagonist remains a woman named Amanda Vaughn (thought by many to be Gatlin’s representation of herself, and played by actress Leslie Bibb.)
In our January print edition, we brought you the story of the battle that ensued between Gatlin and the book’s original publisher, Brown Books. (It’s now a title for Hyperion.)
Will the TV show be any good? Visit FrontRow on Monday, where Laura Kostelny will have a full recap of the premiere.
