AWWWWWWW YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!! The Drudge sirens always mean BIG NEWS! We’ve got the first cancellation of the fall season, and if you took “The Playboy Club” in your TV Death Pool, collect your cash and go buy Season 1 of “Mad Men” on DVD so that you can enjoy a ’60s period show that doesn’t suck.
The move is no surprise and, indeed, was expected months before the show premiered. The industry had low expectations for the 1960s set drama, which attempted to replicate a retro Mad Men vibe but for a wide audience and on a network with plenty of content restrictions.
Playboy Club premiered to low ratings and then dropped for each of its three telecasts, with last night hitting only 3.4 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in the adult demo. Despite having relatively tame content, the show wasn’t helped by conservative group the Parents Television Council vehemently protesting the show. And sharp-eyed Playboy Club viewers got a hint last night something might have been up last night when NBC didn’t air a promo for a fourth episode. [EW]
Reruns of “Prime Suspect” will take over the Monday 10 p.m. slot for NBC until October 31st, when Brian Williams’s “Rock Center” debuts.
Not that TV execs ever learn lessons from their mistakes, but if they did the lesson here would be that if you’re going to make a show with a sexy premise, it should ACTUALLY BE SEXY. And also that you can’t expect Eddie Cibrian to act his way out of a paper bag. That guy’s awful. He shouldn’t even exist outside of still pictures.
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Where is xxDeathbyFartsxx when you need him?
1) Hope that lightning will strike twice*, i.e. copy the 60s noir aspects of Mad Men but without the writing or cast talent.
2) ????
3) Profit! Wait, what do you mean we got cancelled? Nooooo!
* (three times if you’re counting Pan Am**)
** (see steps 1-3 above)
I’d say that Eddie Cibrian deserves terrible things but he already locked down LeAnn Rimes, so punishment has been served.
Not a good sign when the best thing about a show is the outfits the women wear.
Move over, Ted McGinley. There’s a new showkiller in town, and his name is Eddie Something.
In his defense, what’s his name is very pretty.
PS – the nerd in me is sad to see a show with Dr. Simon Tam get cancelled.
My wife was watching Pan Am over the weekend and I noticed one of the pilots was one of the replacement doctors from the last ABC season of Scrubs. I was both stunned that he’d found work in TV again, and relieved that I’d soon have that much more free space on the DVR.
How can that be? Playboy Magazine’s impartial reviews gave the show 4 stars.
I’m assuming they did anyway, since they gave The House Bunny 4 stars.
The only people nostalgic for the Playboy Club are James Caan and Pauly Shore. No advertiser’s key demographic there.
It’s a TV show with the word Playboy in the title but without nudity. How was this green lit in the first place?
I think for one month NBC should air episodes of all its shows set in the 1960s just so see if anything sticks. Why be coy?
Jack, that sounds like a great idea. Maybe then Jim can finally savagely beat Pam with the approval of the rest of the men in the office.
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobz
Brian Williams’s “Rock Center” makes me think of “Janet Reno’s Dance Party.”
I am in tears…….
..I just watched episode #1 where they equate womens lib, cock-sucker rights, the Negro struggle AND the Playboy mansion……
How will this storyline play out…?
1. Copy a show that nobody watches on cable.
2. ?????
3. Cancel.
How did Playboy beat “Up All Night” to the chopping block…?
Aeyo: Add Bill Maher.
Should be replaced by an hour of Amber Heard dancing around in her underwear, was anybody watching the show for some other reason?
The most recent episode had all the playboy bunnies dancing around the bedroom to Love Train.
Also Eddie Cibrian’s entire acting strategy was to make his voice sound as much like Don Draper as possible.
Really I think the show failed because David Krumholtz wasn’t acting nearly jewy enough.