When ABC recently announced it had ordered a season's worth of a new show based on the novel "Good Christian Bitches," I'm not sure which surprised me more -- that the network planned to run a show with the word "Christian" in the title, or the derogatory "bitch."
A dramedy set in Dallas, the show follows the character Amanda Vaughn (Leslie Bibb) who moves back to her hometown (and her mother, played by Annie Potts) after her marriage ends in scandal. In high school, Amanda was the quintessential mean girl. "Oh darlin', you were a bitch with teeth," her mother says in a clip from the show's pilot.
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