It baffles me how a crappy show like Meet the Browns or House of Payne or still on TBS and a pretty good show like Glory Daze gets the axe after one season is beyond me. I was so pissed when that show was cancelled.
Me and wife watched it, outside of the eye candy it was pretty boring. Short rundown, young girl from Indiana accidentially kills a mob guy. Incredibly nice DA with ties to the Mob helps cause he's a nice guy, bunny costumes.....
Yeah it moved a bit too slow and methodical other than. Young, small-town girl kills mob guy. They are trying to go for the nuanced acting and such, but I don't feel that it was hit on by most of the cast. Not a bad premiere, but it didn't really grab your attention, make you have to see the next episode, or make you really care about any particular character. Totally didn't expect it, but 2 Broke Girls was much better as a premiere.
NBC Cancels 'The Playboy Club By Lesley Goldberg and Philiana Ng | The Hollywood Reporter – 55 minutes ago The first cancellation of the new fall season is NBC's The Playboy Club, the network announced today. Brian Williams' newsmagazine show, Rock Center, will take its place beginning Oct. 31. Until then, repeats of Maria Bello's Prime Suspect will air on Mondays at 10 p.m. The move to air Prime Suspect in Playboy Club's time slot is a clear sign of Bob Greenblatt's desire to make the series, which is closer to his cable sensibilities, work. Playboy Club's cancellation comes after the drama premiered Sept. 20 to underwhelming ratings, attracting 5 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic. The second episode of the series from showrunner Chad Hodge and 20th Century Fox Television, tumbled 19 percent, luring only 3.8 million viewers and a 1.3 in the demo. Its most recent episode dropped even more, attracting 3.2 million viewers and a 1.2. The series faced a backlash almost from the start, as the Parents Television Council called for a boycott and urged sponsors to pull out of the show that starred Amber Heard and Eddie Cibrian in a 1960s-set story about the Chicago Playboy Club and the bunnies and men who loved them. Seven advertisers exited the series in the series’ second week after PTC president deemed the show a “commercial disaster” and called for the network to cancel the “degrading and sexualizing program immediately.” The PTC targeted the show from early on for objectifying and degrading women since NBC ordered it to series in May. Hodge downplayed the controversy after Gloria Steinem called for a boycott and NBC's Salt Lake City affiliate refused to air it. "I think there’s a perception of the show that’s false," he said. "There are different brands of feminism and I don’t think it should be boxed into any one version." "I think there was a perception that we were trying to do something politically ambitious or make a statement or make this a show about empowering women, which sounds super boring to me. That sounds like a documentary, which this certainly is not. This is more like Chicago, Moulin Rouge and All That Jazz, Desperate Housewives. This is a fun, sexy soap," he added. Rock Center With Brian Williams will feature Harry Smith, Kate Snow and other correspondents and anchors at NBC News, including Meredith Vieira, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Richard Engel, Matt Lauer and Ann Curry. "Brian Williams already anchors America’s most watched, honored and respected nightly news broadcast. Rock Center now gives him, and our all-star cast of journalists an opportunity to take viewers on a weekly journey of discovery," said Steve Capus, president of NBC News, and Greenblatt in a joint statement. The series will be broadcast from studio 3B in Rockefeller Center and the weekly, hourlong newsmagazine will revolve around the week's events, interviews and coverage. Lacey Rose contributed to this report. http://tv.yahoo.com/news/nbc-cancels--the-playboy-club-.html
lol, the protest groups did not cause people to stop watching the show, if anything that was good publicity for the show and would make more people tune in. Bad excuse, the show tanked because no one cared about the plot/scene...it was DOA. Hopefully HBO/Showtime etc. can pick this up and run it like it should be run with nudity. Then maybe the show will garner viewers.
I watched it for the first time yesterday at the gym and it wasn't turrible. I still didn't see it lasting more than a season on Network tv but yeah, two episodes is bad. NBC at work!
OMG, the Tyler Perry angst from some on here is beyond ridiculous. Disclaimer again: I don't give a crap about Tyler Perry, his shows or his movies and haven't watched any BUT with regards to the b*tching about his show lasting for however many seasons it(they've) been on, HIS SHOWS AREN'T ON NETWORK TV!!!!!!! TBS and TNT have different priorities and a different modi operandi than the ABC's, NBC'S and FOX networks of the world! Keep in mind, one of those networks was the one that jerked both Family Guy(during the good seasons early on) and Arrested Development around before canceling them. NBC has also been known to **** all over a good show and jerk it around as well before canceling it. We could compile a list of shows that Fox greenlit and let survive while Family Guy and Arrested Development were canceled. It won't be pretty reading. Enought with the Tyler Perry b*tching please!
Part of this was on NBC for airing it on Monday evening against MNF losing any potential male crowd and against Castle/The Closer/Hawaii 5-O losing out against any of the female crowd. On the show creators, it did appear to be fairly clichéd, but its story/character development was so slow in development that it never had a chance to get going.
I hope HBO picks up this series and convinces Amber Heard to to a couple of topless scenes per episode.
Hey maybe they could do a show about El Hitman's strip club, "The Mansion"..............Oh wait, nevermind.
she’s been nude already, they shouldve promoted her more for The Informers instead of Matt Damon..... :grin:
