The show was slated to debut on November 5, 2015, and received heavy advanced promotion. Due to network politics, it was bumped off the schedule in October and replaced with the fifth season of 2 Broke Girls (2011), which had just entered syndication.
Maggie Lawson and Jane Lynch worked together before on the show Psych in Ep. 3.6 "There Might Be Blood".
The series was greenlit to order on May 8, 2015, by CBS, and premiered on January 7, 2016. While the series was pulled more than 6 million total viewers and a 1.4 rating, numbers that would be pretty decent on any other major network, CBS executives were not impressed. So on February 8, 2016, CBS cancelled the series and pulled it from the schedule after only five episodes had aired. The remaining episodes didn't begin airing until July 2, 2016.
After the series began airing, One Million Moms, a website of the American Family Association, claimed that the show "disrespects Christianity". The Christian group also suggested a list of sponsors to pull advertisements from the program.
Liza Lapira and David Denman worked together in the sitcom "Traffic Light" as a couple.