NBC Pulls the Plug on the Playboy Club after Only Three Episodes!

I knew it.  Not because I knew the show was going to suck, but because I don’t know what the f*ck NBC is doing anymore.  They cancelled “Heroes”, then they cancelled “Friday Night Light’s” and then without even a goodbye kiss on the forehead, they cancelled “The Event”.

“The Playboy Club” didn’t stand a chance Twinkies chance in Rosie O’Donnell’s eyesight.  Period shows are difficult to pull off (Pan Am will be next).  Young people don’t care enough about the 1960’s and older people are watching “Dancing with the Stars”.

NBC was trying to create a “Mad Men-esque” type of show, without being so brazen.  But what makes “Made Men” so good? It’s brazenness.

The only real buzz about the show were the protests by the Parents Television Council.  When it finally premiered the ratings were low and then continued to drop to a low of 3.4 million viewers.  Unacceptable per NBC’s standards.

The PTC released a statement basically to rub salt in NBC’s wounds.

“Bringing The Playboy Club to broadcast television was a poor programming decision from the start. We’re pleased that NBC will no longer be airing a program so inherently linked to a pornographic brand that denigrates and sexualizes women … we hope other broadcasters heed the important lessons of this programming debacle.”

Even worse, if you were hooked on the show you noticed last night that there was no promos for the fourth episode.  D’oh!!

In today’s world of  “we need a hit now” The Playboy Club is literally a wrap.  NBC will run re-runs of “Prime Suspect” in its place.

I’m still wondering if Hugh Hefner got a cut from the show or not.

-COSMO