R.I.P. The Playboy Club
As Brandi Glanville cackles (or should I say "COCKles" so that prude asshole Kyle Richards can clutch her prayer cloth), I'm throwing a black veil over my Tivo box and mourning the loss of a TV show I was actually getting into. This is just like the time when my 15-year-old self and my neighbor were dry humping in the garage and just when things were about to go from PG-13 to NC-17, my mom tried to get in and screaming at me to stop blocking the door with the old sofa and let her in. This is just like that. NBC has busted into the garage and yelled at The Playboy Club to go back home and to stop rubbing on its son's ass cheeks like that. They just had to ruin a good time.
This is what Entertainment Weekly has to say about The Playboy Club getting stuffed into an urn after only 3 episodes:
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.NBC will fill the Monday night slot with repeats of new police drama Prime Suspect, which likewise needs some assistance in the Nielsen ratings. There are no plans to run off remaining Playboy Club episodes in another time period.
NBC has also given full life to Whitney and Up All Night by picking them up for the rest of the season.
Well, the good news is that Eddie Cibrian can stop thinking he's network TV's answer to Don Draper. My butch lesbian friend who has the thickest Spanish accent ever does a better Don Draper impersonation when she's drunk than Eddie does when he's sober. Bitch is more like Don DRABer. And the good news for Eddie is that at least he has LeAnn Rimes' checking account to fall back on.
I can't say anything about the show since it never aired in my area but if you want a show about idiots watch Pan Am. You will seriously feel your brain being sucked dry within minutes. Honestly I thought NBC's Mercy was tv-for-morons but this one takes the cake. Can't believe ABC killed Brothers and Sisters for this crap.
Callan, I meant to say "Outsourced"! I mistakenly said "Community" because I'm bitter that Joel McHale made a joke on The Soup about it being cancelled and so as a result, I won't ever watch that show cuz I'm so pissed off about it.
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Even Gloria Steinem was protesting this show and she infiltrated the NY club in the 60's to get a story (yes, that's who the character in the "series finale" ;) on Monday was).
I heart Raising Hope. Best comedy on TV. Interested to see what that "American Horror Story" on FX is all about - premiers tonight. Lokks very David Lynch-y. I love TV in October when they bring out all the ghosts & haunted stuff.
Whitney reminds me of Chelsea in that they look like raging cokewhores who will suck a baseball through a garden hose if it will benefit them. Pretty sure the reason why that shows still on is because she's blowing the right people, because as far as east is from west is how far Whitney is from funny.
@Snow Owl
Community wasn't canceled. It's still on Thursdays on NBC.
Damn, I was just getting into that show. It was different and even though the acting wasn't great, I enjoyed it. Amber Heard is gorgeous...I was waiting for her and Eddie Cibrian to have an affair and watch Leanne Rimes have a meltdown. I don't condone cheating, but when a home-wrecker gets cheated on, then it's fair game.
I haven't seen "Whitney". I wanted to but even though I actually like her, I refuse to watch anything with anyone whose involved on The Chelsea Lately show. I also tried to watch Whitney's comedy special and I couldn't get through the first 10 minutes. I thought it was pretty bad. The E! Network is showing re-runs of the show so I guess they did manage to get enough eyeballs to watch it.
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I haven't read that many comments but am I the only one who's upset that Bob's Burgers didn't come back this season?
I don't think I'll get over Community getting canceled last spring though. That show and Raising Hope were my favorite new shows!
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Have no opinion on The Playboy Club as I never wanted to see it, but good lord - the totally unfunny Whitney was picked up to full season? It SUCKS. I suppose that's why 2 Broke Girls is also such a hit: it's a completely moronic and lowest-common-denominator sitcom (much like the re-tooled but still idiotic Two and a Half Men).
Free Agents was a slightly amusing UK sitcom which was butchered by Americans (why Anthony Head still wanted to be involved in it is beyond me). Except for New Girl, this entire new season is total crap.
The two numbers in tuxedoes are obvious homosexuals who would hardly be interested in stinkfish, let alone PAYING for stinkfish!
(= the reason for the failure of the show)
@Neurotic
Please accept my apology if I offended you the other day. It was very out of character for me to name call. I'm sorry.
Seriously, this Cibrian guy was the biggest mistake on the show. Wait, that's second only to attaching the Playboy name to it.
I'm not a prude, but dislike playboy no matter and when I saw the show's premise, that was the first thing that made me pause. Why could it not have been just some random prominent titty bar from the back in the good old days times?
Seriously no need to evoke the Playboy brand name, which didn't seem to bring in viewers, or if anything repelled them.
Then cast all the awesome female cast and end up making the show more about the lead male character who seems pretty damn uncharismatic. Who was in charge of all those bad choices?
Well, it's a good thing too. Less chance of Eddie getting up close & personal with an extra. Otherwise this marriage wouldn't even make it through the first year, and that would be a shame.
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Why did they pick up Whitney for a full season? Just the ads for it make me want to beat her with a baseball bat.
Is Whitney that bad? I haven't seen it yet. I do think that Whiney herself is flipping hysterical. I still miss The Sarah Silverman Program...
close enough: http://cdn02.cdn.socialitelife.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/leann-rime...
I haven't had faith in NBC since they essentially got rid of Friday Night Lights after the 2nd season. Never watched Playboy Club, but knowing that Whitney got a full season pickup just proves they're shit. Horrible jokes, horrible acting. Horrible.
Cable's where it's at. But now all those shows are getting too expensive to make. Just read about Michael C. Hall's negotiations possibly holding up Season 7 of Dexter. TV is screwed.
do we have a response from Leann yet? maybe a closeup anorexic frowny-faced pic on her twitter?
"Revenge is sweet and not fattening"
-Alfred Hitchcock-
Meh on Playboy Club.
FUCK that show Whitney. It sucks so bad. I watched the pilot and said, "this sucks", but gave it another chance. I got through 5 minutes of 2nd show and turned it off.
I do absolutely adore the whitney produced "2 Broke Girls" show. My tv girlfriend(a la Liz Lemon) is Kat Dennings. My tv sancha is Zooey Deschanel that I'll see tonight.
Submitted by islandgirl on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 1:18pm.
Awww, poor Eddie. It's hard work having to fuck a bicycle rack for pocket money!
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Hahahaaha!!
*admires combination lock and chain on Eddie's balls*
Submitted by IrishFury on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 5:06pm.
Hi Bjork, I have not seen you in ages!
Have you seen the real Prime Suspect? The fabulous UK series with Helen Mirren? God, it's so damn good. Netflix it if you can.
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Big co sign on that. Watched one episode of that crap on NBC. I hate it, what a waste of a good actress. I wanna knock her cap off and stomp on it. One thing about British series is you won't see much violence but you will see a story well told. The UK Prime Suspect is nothing like the American version.
Naw, FX has a great lineup. Sunny, Archer, Louie and Wilfred are all pretty fantastic. Anyone who has not watched Wilfred needs to immediately.
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OMG Wilfred is funny. and Sterling Archer is God.
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Submitted by IrishFury on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 5:06pm.
Hi Bjork, I have not seen you in ages!
Have you seen the real Prime Suspect? The fabulous UK series with Helen Mirren? God, it's so damn good. Netflix it if you can.
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My dear, I have seen them all and still miss Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson. Lynda La Plante, who wrote the British one, is working on the American one as a consultant, or producer, or writer, something key like that.
Excuse me while I cry a river for "The Playboy Club," a cancelled show that I didn't believe in, had no interest in, and never watched.
Okay, I'm done, recovered. (I do like Amber Heard and know that she'll move on from this. As for Eddie, well, that just means that he gets to spend more time with LeeAnne, which either can be good or bad, depending on whom you talk to, right?)
Naw, FX has a great lineup. Sunny, Archer, Louie and Wilfred are all pretty fantastic. Anyone who has not watched Wilfred needs to immediately.
This show would have been cool with a different male lead.
Ah well, that's that and garbage that gets ratings keeps living on too.
"And CA's lack of tittyballs is very distracting. I know she had breast cancer and had both bewbs lobbed off, but she's now got NOTHING there and it distracts me."
This is uncalled for. Even for Dlisted. A serious illness like this is nothing to say such a thing about, and certainly not when it's said about someone who has/had this disease.
Most Dlisters have some level of respect, but you are a brainless, hopeless, tacky bitch. I certainly hope you never have to deal with cancer in your family. It's not funny.
Hi Bjork, I have not seen you in ages!
Have you seen the real Prime Suspect? The fabulous UK series with Helen Mirren? God, it's so damn good. Netflix it if you can.
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Dark-sided!
I like "Prime Suspect"; I'm a big Maria Bellow fan, despite her sad participation in the Mummy franchise.
Submitted by Gaia on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 4:15pm.
Guys, PLEASE give Fringe a chance.
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I was a loyal Fringe watcher until the third or fourth episode last year, and just had to call it a day. I hated the two Olivia's etc story line and felt the show left behind what made it a new type of X-Files.
Sorry, but Fringe and chances were done last year. I was bored out of my mind.
what goes around comes around Falcor...I am sure she will purge over this too and tweet yet another anorexic looking bikini pic...Lord, will it ever end...
Funny how that Sean Maher dude felt it okay too out himself just a week ago. The cast must have just not given a shit.
Guys, PLEASE give Fringe a chance. I'm not a huge SciFi fan and I adore the show. Unfortunately it's on the verge of being cancelled, even though they already moved it to the death slot (Fridays). It's a fantastic, intelligent show with an amazing cast that deserves more recognition than it is getting. I hate FOX, but even I gotta admit from time to time they do things right, and I think Fringe is one of those things. Please, show Anna Torv, John Noble and Joshua Jackson some love!
"This is just like the time when my 15-year-old self and my neighbor were dry humping in the garage and just when things were about to go from PG-13 to NC-17, my mom tried to get in and screaming at me to stop blocking the door with the old sofa and let her in."
Please tell me your neighbor was a guy, MK. That would be so hot.
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"I'm not crazy; I'm just a little unwell."
James Caan called...even he doesn't care!
Nope!
I really wanted to like Up All Night. I love Will Arnett. I just get the feeling that the writers don't know what they want the show to be. Is it a full-on comedy? Is it a treacly comedy/drama about parenthood? They need to tighten up their premise a little, methinks.
Nobody on my (Cdn) FB has heard of the new reality show, Monster-in-Law, that premiered on A&E, this week. Maybe it's not on in the States?
Anyone?
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Bring back Deadwood.
I need more Al Swearengen in my life.
Poor Leanne, she is going to have to pay for everything as usual. bwaaa
What is up with this Whitney show, the previews I saw were not so funny and I have skipped it. Hard to believe she stays in the picture.
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i was excited for this show but once i saw it was like about smart bunnies i was like fuck this shit
playboy club is about partying and fucking everyone and anyone and dumb blondes/chicks getting semi nude for money while waiting for hef to do them and for added bonus you get a key
on a serious note i thought it would be more fun fun fun not all this mystery and drama shit umm for a playboy theme? umm no
*tell em get in line and kiss your ass MUAH!*
I thought the show looked tasteless, never bothered watching it.
Prime Suspect was boring too. I watched 20 minutes of it. Up All Night and even the new Hank Azaria show kept me wanting more. That's what a show needs for the first few episodes. I can see Prime Suspect being cancelled. If NBC can cancel Chase, which was really good, I don't see how PS will last. The male policemen were obnoxious. Law and Order/SVU makes that show look like shit.
It's because of the whole "Playboy" thing. What rubbish! It was a good show. I was looking forward to the show "Whitney" and found that to be a disappointment blatant in your face idiocy. The Playboy show was well written. Jeez!
Submitted by M.E. on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 1:52pm.
I couldn't with Up All Night. They're too caught up in trying to be young and hip and just come off as stupid.
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Same. I want to like it because I love Will Arnett, but the three eps I've watched so far were just baaaaad. Maya Rudolph's character is really obnoxious, as well (and not in a funny way).
The PTC can hardly be to blame for the demise of this POS. I never even watched an episode and could tell just from the trailers that it was lame suck beyond measure. When the hell are these nitwit network executives going to pull their heads out of their asses and stop copying concepts that are already in place? Originality in Hollywood is like Kryptonite to Superman.
Submitted by LaChaylo on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 1:45pm.
@ Spice Dong,
TRUTH. I want the whole outfit, just for kicks, but the bag is retro fabulous! -------------------------------------------------
Let me tell you that I have been looking for it, and it seems that the only bags they have available for sale and promotional gifts are not quite like the ones they carry on the show...the color is off, the logo is different, don't have the metal details, and they are cheap PVC imitations for $74 a pop. Fucking sucks...I heard only those who made it to the launch party got the real thing.
"I paid good money to get eaten out" - Samantha Jones
Submitted by stefystef on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 2:18pm.
Did they cancel "Breaking Bad" or is the series just coming to an end?
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Canceled. All the aticles I have read have said canceled, but they will be able to wrap up the storyline, since they had advanced notice of the cancelation. AMC is getting very cheap, and were willing to cancel Mad Med, had Matt Weiner not given in to salary reductions and paring down the cast and other expenses. Breaking Bad was too expensive and AMC is too far up the ass of that show, the Walking Dead, to support BB any longer.
Submitted by bambam on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 2:25pm.
Thanks for the info Bam. I am definitely going to check it out.
Submitted by Somuchbetterthanyou on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 2:20pm.
I dig "Archer" on FX.
But I wouldn't be surprised if that got yanked simply because animated shows can be just as costly as live action and it probably doesn't have a large fan base other than lingerers from "It's Always...".
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Archer is awesome. Always Sunny is starting to fucking suck.
Archer is so cleverly written.. I can watch it over and over again adn still laugh.
DANJAZONE
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"Bitch, your pancakes look fine to me."
*swoon* at DWM... such a BITCH! by Jack-n-the-
Submitted by M.E. on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 1:52pm.
And CA's lack of tittyballs is very distracting. I know she had breast cancer and had both bewbs lobbed off, but she's now got NOTHING there and it distracts me.
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OMG what a total bitch slut you are! Poor Kelly Bundy.
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"Bitch, your pancakes look fine to me."
*swoon* at DWM... such a BITCH! by Jack-n-the-
I dig "Archer" on FX.
But I wouldn't be surprised if that got yanked simply because animated shows can be just as costly as live action and it probably doesn't have a large fan base other than lingerers from "It's Always...".