New series don't get bumped to midseason because they're just too good to waste on a September premiere. Friday nights are death slots on NBC, too. My guess is they're going to put it on the air just to burn off the episodes and hope for a Hail Mary (pun intended). If it actually captures some ratings, great, but otherwise it'll be gone and forgotten by March.
Isnt Aidan Quinn the one that is married to the fat Dixie Chick?
It seems like NBC's political leanings are outweighing its business sense. Who would watch something like this on a Friday night? The people most likely to watch this show, younger liberals, are pobably out on Friday night and aren't going to go out of their way to set up their TiVo's for this stuff.
Older people who might be home on Friday will generally be more conservative and be turned off by the 'edginess'. I concur that it will be gone by March.
I have to assume that indeed NBC has no illusions about garnering a large audience. My assumption is that this show has been produced and paid for in order to give the media an excuse to talk about how "family value" Christians are a bunch of hypocrites. There is an election coming up this next year after all, and the 'rat "working group on faith issues," in collusion with the whorehouse media, has to do something to try to peel off some votes.