October 5th, 2011
01:36 PM ET
Hef on 'Playboy Club': Should've been on cableMany of you (we'll be honest: many more than we were expecting) were not pleased with NBC's decision to can "The Playboy Club" after three episodes, giving it the title of first casualty of the season. Of course, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who did some voiceover work in the premiere, was sad to see his trademarked bunnies exit network TV as well. He tweeted Tuesday, "I'm sorry NBC's "The Playboy Club" didn't find it's audience. It should have been on cable, aimed at a more adult audience." (Well, that would've been more in line with the brand.) Since then, he's been retweeting the statements of disappointed fans, consoling one of them with the promise that there will be "three more episodes of 'The Playboy Club' –six in all." The 85-year-old playboy isn't letting NBC's cancellation keep his spirits down. "At the same time," he wrote Tuesday, "there is renewed studio interest in a major motion picture on my life & the start of the Sexual Revolution." In the meantime, Mondays at 10 p.m. on the Peacock Network will be filled with reruns of Maria Bello's "Prime Suspect" before the newsmagazine show "Rock Center with Brian Williams" premieres on October 31.
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Blame it on the USA Christians and Tea Party conservatives, they freak out if there is anything on TV they don't like, then they organize a boycott. First they say they support freedom and then they try to censor all of us. The only reason that NBC would cancel a show like this is because the conservatives complained louder than the fans and somebody at NBC decided to cave.
Dirty old coot.
What's missing is acting ability.... There is beauty; some brains; braun.............but the acting TOTALLY SUCKS!!! I watched one and half episodes and said, "That's it!! this will be a one season show" It's sad because the Heff; The Playboy mansion and the bunnies are a piece of history that needs to be portrayed correctly.. I'm excited to hear about the movie about Heff's life....
It wasn't as bad as the nay-sayers claimed. At least the women were, for the most part, NOT portrayed as mindless bimbos. Maybe Bravo or USA will pick it up.
Thought it was a good show with a good plot. good grief conservative americans, get over it :p
perverted old dinosaur.
I am just waiting for them to "can" Charlie's Angels.
re shop it. put it on cable. This show could be great. give it a chance.
That's not a bad idea.
It should have started out on cable anyway. On a network channel, it was highly unlikely it would have survived.
I guess there weren't enough E! viewers to sustain a show on a real network.
My thoughts exactly! The acting in this show was HORRIBLE.
I, too enjoyed the show. This happens to me a lot- I get into a show, the poof! it gets cancelled. I'll always miss Swingtown :(
I read it is being re-shopped- the NY Times said so in their article on the cancellation.
This is what I said yesterday, this series needs to be reshopped! Unless it's exclusive property of NBC, it just needs a new home because I thought it was well made & interesting! Not to mention great historical commentary of what women have gone thru to have our equal rights! The "scenery" didn't hurt either, Eddie Cibrian is hot, always has been (since Y & R days)! No wonder Leann Rimes lost her mind over the dude!!
Cibrian is a magot. Paris Hilton is a dunce but she is HOT!!
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