Playboy Club Cancelled: I’m Not Surprised

Earlier this week, NBC cancelled the Playboy’s Club with Eddie Cibian, (this dude just can’t catch a break first it was Invasion, then CSI Miami.)

The show wasn’t bad, but it should have been a cable, but NBC wanted their own version of Mad Men.

That’s all well and good, but to be honest, I don’t care how Emmy’s Man Men wins, he 60’s ad exec drama pulls in just under 2.4 million viewers on AMC. Ironically, the top rated rate show on AMC is Walking Dead, which averages about 3.5 million, but I don’t expect any shows with Zombies on the peacock anytime soon, (although it seems like NBC is rub by zombies).

So if you are a NBC exec, why would you think your 60’s inspired drama will have more ratings than the 2.5 million of the top rated 60’s inspired drama? (zombies have to be making this decisions right?)

The Playboy’s Club would’ve had a better chance if it was featured on NBC’s sister cable outlet Bravo, but since Bravo is all about housewives now, it wasn’t a good fit, (James Plimpton where are you?!?)

To be honest, I think the Playboy’s Club can still work, all you have to do is go to AMC, scrap the originally idea and focus on Hugh Hefner’s beginnings at Playboy.

Thanks to Borders mass liquidation, I‘ve been reading "Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream".

 If a smart producer would just focus on Hef’s career from the time he launched Playboy in the 1950’s to right before the sexual revolution of the 1960’s that show would be just as captivating as anything on Mad Men, (the spin-off show could be sold Showtime, because the Hef’s life in the 1970’s was even wilder.)

But who I am right?

I’m just a pop culture blogger in Akron, Ohio. I can’t be nearly as smart as those zombies…I mean execs at NBC right?  

Did you watch the Playboy’s Club? What did you think?


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