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After getting off to a great ratings start, the new NBC drama Deception is now in danger of being canceled.

Starring Meagan Good, Deception is suffering badly from poor viewership. But the series is hanging on — last week’s episode saw an 18 percent increase in viewers to 3.23 million, although that is still pretty low. “The show had been more or less shedding viewers since premiering to 5.62 million on Jan 7. On Feb. 4, it hit a season low with just 3.08 million tuning in,” writes EURWeb.

This is just a month after the show debuted as a ratings winner, as we reported.

While many may think the show was inspired by ABC’s hits Scandal, which also has a black female lead, and Revenge, about a young woman going undercover in a wealthy family to expose secrets, the show’s creator says it was actually three films that gave her the idea for Deception. Creator and executive producer Liz Heldens told the EURWeb, “Two of my favorite movies are ‘Donnie Brasco’ and ‘The Departed,’ and then I was sort of thinking about how could you do an undercover show with a female protagonist, and at the same time NBC was looking for a soap. And so then I sort of thought could ‘Donnie Brasco’ and the movie ‘Sabrina’ have a baby? And so they did. So that was how it happened.”

But the question is whether this mash-up is compelling enough to attract viewers. Have you been watching? What do you think is missing from the show?

Meagan Good says she’s put her goodies on lock since breaking up with boyfriend Thomas Jones, running back for the Kansas City Chiefs. Although the “Jumping the Broom” star says she has met someone special, the new boo doesn’t compare to the first man in her life—God.

In an interview with Sister2Sister, she told Jamie: “You know what? I’m so in love with God right now. I’m focused on being married to God.”

Jamie, in true Jamie fashion, busted her out: “Okay now, you’re like the third or fourth girl to tell me that. ‘I am God’s girlfriend.’ So I said you can’t cheat on Him.”

Meagan: “I’m not! I’m celibate!”

Jamie: “Oh okay. You can’t be God’s girlfriend and when you meet a guy you say, ‘Okay, God, step aside.’”

There have been some jabs at Sex and the City 2 for being too lily-white. (We don’t know why this comes as a surprise to anyone since the show was never an example of diversity.)  Anyway, there’s a new black romantic comedy in the works that looks like it’s going to be very Madame-friendly.

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