>GCB finally arrives Sunday night at 10 after Desperate Housewives, as it lurches toward its series finale in May. With a little luck, we will stop hearing “we shall receive” in the ABC promos at a carpet-bombing rate of 45+ seconds per hour. The light soap/drama from Robert Harling (creator of Sex and the City) is based on the book Good Christian Bitches, with the pilot re-titled Good Christian Belles and ultimately GCB. The premiere episode should build slightly on its Desperate Housewives lead-in and settle slightly in the next few weeks. We are giving Desperate a 2.6 Sunday as it rebuilds back toward a 3 rating after the January/ February pre-emptions and stiff competition. The audience for GCB should be very compatible and a small additional bonus audience of the curious will probably check it out. We expect GCB to win the time period Sunday with Adults 18-49, with NBC in second (the second hour of Celebrity Apprentice at a 2.5 rating and the full 9-11 pm episode at a 2.4) and CSI: Miami in third with a 1.9 rating.
ShowBuzzDaily Forecast
GCB — ABC Sunday
Adults 18-49 Rating
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Forecast 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6
The premiere of NBC’s Awake Thursday rounded up in the official nationals to a 2.0 rating (from a 1.9), bringing it a bit closer to our original forecast of a 2.4 rating. We still expect a decline in week two (the show’s rating dropped a bit at the half-hour mark — and even at each quarter-hour mark). With The Mentalist returning with an original episode this Thursday on CBS, look for a 1.8 from Awake in its second week.
ShowBuzzDaily Forecast
AWAKE — NBC Thursday
Adults 18-49 Rating
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Forecast 2.4 2.1 2.1 2.0
Actual 2.0
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