The Playboy Club Is the First New Show to Get Canceled


Updated 10/11/11 6:23 PM · Posted by · 4 comments

The Playboy Club Canceled

Ladies and gentleman, we have the first casualty of the 2011 Fall TV season: NBC has canceled The Playboy Club. The 1960s drama set in Chicago lasted only three episodes after suffering low ratings and complaints from the Parents Television Council about its racy subject matter. This update comes on the heels of the news that NBC is picking up Whitney and Up All Night for full seasons, but Read more

Link Time — See Pictures From The Avengers!


Updated 10/11/11 6:23 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 0 comments

The Avengers Movie Pictures

Check out some new photos from The Avengers! — Moviefone See where Lost's most memorable guest stars are now — BuddyTV Meet James Bond's new leading lady — Vulture Which hot movie role is Rooney Mara rumored for now? — /Film Find out who wants The Playboy Club canceled — Aol TV Why Johnny Depp's Lone Ranger might get made after all — The Hollywood Reporter 5 great reasons to watch Read more

Will You Keep Watching The Playboy Club?


Updated 09/20/11 8:20 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

The Playboy Club Audience Review

The Playboy Club hit TV last night with its '60s-set drama about Playboy Bunnies and the men who watch them. Now I want to know what you thought; in the pilot, Amber Heard gets herself in a bit of trouble and Eddie Cibrian, hair slicked back like Don Draper, helps get her out of it. There were a few other side stories introduced as well, but were they compelling enough to get you to watch again? Read more

Pilot Scoop: The Playboy Club


Updated 09/20/11 1:52 PM · Posted by · 7 comments

The Playboy Club Pilot Review

With Mad Men off the air for now, you can get your '60s fix with tonight's premiere of new NBC drama The Playboy Club, which was supposedly inspired by Lane Pryce's affair with a Playboy bunny on Mad Men. The series takes us to Chicago in 1963, where a group of women are making their keep by strutting around a nightclub in lingerie. What it's about: Amber Heard plays Maureen, the new bunny on Read more

The Playboy Club Is Making a Comeback in More Ways Than One


Updated 12/14/11 4:47 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Playboy Club Vintage Pictures

Octogenarian Hugh Hefner shows no signs of slowing down, and neither does the Playboy Club brand he introduced 51 years ago. The club Gloria Steinem calls "one of the tackiest places on earth" has made its way back into the public consciousness first as a cameo in Mad Men and now thanks to a new NBC show about its prime in 1960s Chicago. Now Playboy has plans to get in on the nostalgia by Read more

Gloria Steinem Takes On The Playboy Club Once Again


Updated 09/01/11 4:20 PM · Posted by · 6 comments

Gloria Steinem Calls For Boycott of The Playboy Club Show

Gloria Steinem must be experiencing a serious case of déja vu. Forty-eight years after she went undercover as a Playboy Bunny and wrote an infamous exposé revealing the club's "underpaid waitresses in too-high heels" with few work options had to undergo pelvic exams and STD screenings among other things, she's laying bare the exploitation she saw all over again in part thanks to the new NBC Read more

The Playboy Club Cast Says Being a Bunny Was Empowering


Updated 09/05/11 12:13 AM · Posted by · 12 comments

The Playboy Club: Empowering For Women?

NBC's The Playboy Club is debuting this Fall, and the show centers on bunnies at a Playboy Club in '60s Chicago (the city where the first Playboy Club opened in 1960). Taking a cue from Mad Men and its own Playboy Club connection, the show glamorizes the scantily clad bunnies and the male-centered time period they lived in. The cast has been well-prepped on defending the show from critics who Read more

The Cast of The Playboy Club Talks Bunny Costumes, Female Empowerment, and How They're Different From Mad Men


Updated 08/30/11 9:20 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

The Playboy Club and Mad Men Differences

NBC took front and center at the Summer TCAs on Monday, with The Playboy Club as the first new series to step into the spotlight. The cast, which includes Amber Heard, Eddie Cibrian, and Jenna Dewan, joined showrunners to discuss their upcoming drama about a Playboy Club in Chicago in the 1960s. The panel fielded a lot of questions about objectifying women (they promise that it's "empowering"), Read more

Get a Sneak Peek at NBC's New Shows


Updated 05/18/11 10:27 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 0 comments

New NBC Pilot Previews: The Playboy Club, Up All Night, Smash, Grimm, Whitney, Bent, Are You There Vodka It's Me Chelsea

If you're still recovering from the sting of cancellation for some of your favorite shows, here's something that might cheer you up. NBC has already revealed its 2011 Fall schedule, and now I've got closer looks at all of the brand-new series. See which of your favorite stars are returning to the small screen, along with previews of all of the new shows. Don't forget to tell us which ones you're Read more

NBC Pilots: Get the Scoop on the New Shows


Updated 05/13/11 4:25 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

NBC 2011 Pilots Including Bent and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Upfronts news means that we're finding out about what will happen in the upcoming TV season. Each network is clearing room in its schedule by getting rid of current shows to make way for new series, like NBC, which just canceled The Event and Law & Order: Los Angeles. But let's look to the future — here are the pilots NBC has just picked up, which star a host of familiar faces like Debra Read more