Just watched the first episode of Rinne no Lagrange today.
I thought it was pretty good, and there's definitely some yuri undertones to it.
But seriously: when the people who did the winter preview podcast looked into it, all they did was assume it would suck because it was XEBEC. They completely ignored that Production I.G, the parent of XEBEC, is providing the original idea and the scripts, and is even producing it. XEBEC's just doing the animation because Production I.G's putting all of its animation team to work on half 2 of Guilty Crown. That, and XEBEC is more comfortable drawing the fanservicey scenes. That aside, Lagrange is totally an I.G show, even with a different animation team.
That is all.