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*Jada Miranda, NBC’s Senior Vice President of Drama, will exit the network following a two year run, reports Deadline.com. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Miranda personally oversaw “The Playboy Club,” “Grimm” and “The Firm,” among others. Sources say she left on her own accord and plans to pursue other creative opportunities in the business. Before [...]
*In a move many TV critics saw coming since the pilot episode aired, ABC has canceled its heavily-marketed “Charlie’s Angels” reboot due to low ratings. The Miami-set remake – starring Minka Kelly, Rachael Taylor and the franchise’s first African American Angel played by Annie Ilonzeh – failed to make a dent against heavy Thursday [...]
*The London papers are abuzz over what went down at the city’s Playboy Club between the wife of rapper Snoop Dogg and a gaggle of Bunnies that had flocked to her husband in VIP. According to the Daily Mirror, Snoop was partying at the venue with Ashley Cole, former Blur star Damon Albarn and David [...]
*NBC announced today that it is cancelling its highly-publicized new drama, “The Playboy Club,” after just three episodes. The Monday night drama, co-starring Naturi Naughton and Jenifer Lewis, had only 5 million viewers for its first episode two weeks ago and kept losing viewers. Nielsen said the show, set in the 1960s, had only 3.5 [...]
*The Parents Television Council says seven companies have pulled their ads from the second episode of NBC’s “The Playboy Club” — and they’re calling on Capital One, Samsung and Chrysler to follow their lead, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Naturi Naughton and Jenifer Lewis star in the series set in 1963 at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy [...]
*Turns out “The Playboy Club” wasn’t as inviting as NBC thought it would be. The premiere bombed, according to Nielsen, attracting just five million viewers and finishing last in its timeslot. Vanity Fair contacted a former Playboy bunny, Marilyn Miller, for her thoughts. “I’m so disappointed,” she wrote. “None of those things happened. They did [...]
*When the cast of NBC’s “The Playboy Club” faced a room full of TV critics in Beverly Hills last month, cast member Jenifer Lewis took the lead in defending the series against allegations that the show – set in 1963 – glorifies the exploitation of women. One of the clear talking points the cast used [...]
*The hype is now over. After a summer full of reservations from TV critics over its misogynistic vibe, from parents groups over the sexual content implied by its title, from an NBC affiliate in Utah who refuses to even air the program, and from women’s rights icon Gloria Steinem who called for a boycott of [...]
*NBC’s “The Playboy Club” has included Raphael Saadiq and the winner of “The Voice” on the list of contemporary musical acts portraying stars of the late 1950s and early ’60s during the season. Javier Colon, who took first place on NBC’s singing competition series this summer, will portray Ray Charles in an upcoming episode, singing [...]
*Without seeing one episode, Interfaith organization Morality in Media has launched a three-pronged attack on NBC’s upcoming “The Playboy Club,” going after advertisers, the network, and the network’s affiliates. The group issued a statement Thursday saying that it has sent letters to NBC’s top advertisers asking them to use their influence to stop the Peacock [...]
Naturi Naughton and Jenifer Lewis tried really hard last week to defend their upcoming NBC series “The Playboy Club” as a show that actually empowers young women. The pair joined other cast members and producers in arguing against critics who have seen the pilot and insist that it romanticizes 60s-era sexism and racism. Iconic feminist [...]
*NBC’s upcoming drama “The Playboy Club” had a lively discussion this morning at the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, where the entire cast – including Naturi Naughton and Jenifer Lewis – found themselves having to defend rather than discuss the show. Set in 1960s Chicago, the series follows the men and mobsters [...]
*NBC’s Salt Lake City affiliate KSL-TV has announced it will not air the network’s upcoming fall drama “The Playboy Club,” citing objectionable content. The Utah station said Monday that the series – which stars Eddie Cibrian and features Naturi Naughton in a 1960s-set club where crooners, mob bosses and politicians mingle among Chicago’s elite – [...]
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