NBC has shut the doors on The Playboy Club after just three episodes.
The series debuted to lackluster ratings and critical panning last month and is the first victim of the 2011-12 television season.
The series has been pulled and will be replaced by a news-magazine later this month. Repeats of Prime Suspect will run in the time slot until that time.
Playboy Magazine founder Hugh Hefner tweeted yesterday that he regretted the show didn’t find an audience and then stated it might have done better on cable.
The quick pull of the show only continues to add to NBC’s ratings woes. The network is looking to get out of fourth place and hoped the new fall crop of shows might help that. And while some shows have been a success so far, much of NBC’s crop of shows have failed to be big starters out of the gate.
And before we get our hopes up that this might mean NBC will relent and give Chuck one more season, don’t hold your breath. Execs have been fairly consistent in saying that this is the last year for Chuck.
You mean a show about a nude magazine on a network that can’t show nudity didn’t work? NO! *sarcasm*
I’m not surprised. I saw the ads for this and Pan Am, and wondered who in the world would even care enough to tune in once.
I understand searching for a 60s themed show premise you can exploit in order to try to copy the attention Mad Men gets, but seriously, who outside of the groupthink bubble for either of those show ideas thought they’d really work?
What’re the odds that the next shows axed are Charlie’s Angels, Pan Am, and maybe a couple of those copycat stale cheese sitcoms that I can’t even name?
Yes. I’m grumpy. Deal 🙂
Now if they want to do a real spicy Pan Am type show I remember a pretty fetching 3D movie back in the 1960’s I saw called “The Stewardess.” You haven’t see porn until you’ve seen it in 3D. The stuff that comes toward your face is ghastly.
Surprised? No. This should have ALWAYS been a Starz or HBO series. The fact that in the day and age of ‘Two and a Half Men’, there’s no room in Prude TV for anything this sexually falmboyant. College-level crudeness only.
I’m saddened this show didn’t take off. I’m an enormous fan of Sean Maher and would have been very happy to see him regularly in another TV series!