Topic: The Playboy Club

Cancelled TV Shows Need A Drink(ing Game)

Gee, there’s been an awful lot of news about cancelled television shows this week, hasn’t there? The first of the new fall shows are getting cancelled, shows that had been cancelled for years are suddenly coming back to life a la Frankenstein’s monster (appropriate, given that it’s Halloween season)… there’s just so much activity! So you know what? Let’s give those cancelled televisions something to do with themselves. In fact, let’s get them drunk. Because boy, won’t that be hilarious? More »

NBC Cancels The Playboy Club But Orders A Full Season For Whitney

Try as they might, the bunnies of NBC’s The Playboy Club couldn’t shake their cute little tails long enough to keep viewers interested. But what’s Whitney doing right, then? More »

Firefly And The Playboy Club Actor Sean Maher Comes Out Of The Closet

Considering what little privacy celebrities possess, announcements like this are mind-boggling because of how long the person has been able to keep it secret. Sean Maher has announced that he’s gay—even more, he has a partner of nine years and two children! And he’s spent the last 14 years in Hollywood playing it straight, on everything from cult hit Firefly to new pilot The Playboy Club. More »

Ladies Be Filmin’: The Playboy Club

The fall TV season is underway and, despite the ever-lower numbers of women in the writers’ rooms, it’s being hailed as the year of the women: 17 out of the 25 new scripted shows on the Big Five networks are female-centered and many were created by women. In this series, comedian Leila Cohan-Miccio watches the new female-centered shows and evaluates how realistic their portrayals of women actually are. And now, The Playboy Club, the first of this season’s two 1960s flashback shows. More »

12 New Fall TV Shows to Watch Out For

It’s that time again: The time of preparation for new seasonal television shows! We had some good ones over the summer, many of which we either wrote about or recapped. But many of those are now winding down, and as it’s now September, it’s time to start gearing up for the new fall shows—and believe you me, there are MANY of them. We’ve already told you about Ringer and American Horror Story, so forgive us if we don’t repeat ourselves here; but! Do take a look at these 12 shows. We think they’re going to be worth checking out: More »

Gloria Steinem Calls For A Boycott Of ‘The Playboy Club’

One might think that feminist icon Gloria Steinem has more important things to do than criticize a television show she hasn’t even seen. One would be wrong. More »

Feminism, Free Love, and Tang: What If Every Network Got Its Own ’60s Show?

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HBO is still bitter that they didn't think of Mad Men

It only took four wildly popular season of Mad Men (and a Mad Men-inspired cookbook) to get other networks to realize audiences are ready for some quality retro programming. Enter NBC’s The Playboy Club and ABC’s Pan Am, both set in the 1960s. But why should three networks have all the fun? If every station could roll out a ’60s-themed show this fall, here’s what they would be. More »