Jeff Beal is scoring the new ABC comedy drama GCB (previously entitled Good Christian Belles). The show created by Robert Harling (Steel Magnolia, The First Wives Club) is based on Kim Gatlin’s book Good Christian Bitches and centers on a recently divorced mother of two who moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up to find herself in the whirling midst of salacious gossip, Botox, and fraud. The series’ cast includes Leslie Bibb (Iron Man, Popular), Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies), Marisol Nichols (24), as well as Mark Deklin, Miriam Schor, Jennifer Aspen, Annie Potts, David James Elliott and Brad Beyer. Darren Starr (Sex and the City) is executive producing the show with Harling, Gretchen J. Berg, Aaron Harberts, Aaron Kaplan and Alan Poul (The Back-up Plan) who also directed the pilot episode. GCB will premiere tonight and will be airing every Sunday night on ABC. For updates on the series, visit the official show website.
GCB marks Beal’s first ABC series since the hit show Ugly Betty, which he scored from 2006 to 2009. The composer has also been involved in the music for select episodes of the HBO show Luck created by David Milch and starring Starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, John Ortiz, Richard Kind, Kevin Dunn, Ian Hart and Nick Nolte. The show’s first season is currently airing on HBO (click here for more information). Beal also has the documentary The Queen of Versailles coming up, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by Magnolia Pictures for a theatrical release this summer.
