Between the negative reviews and the falling numbers over its first three episodes, it should be no surprise that NBC's The Playboy Club was the first new show to get cancelled. Really, the writing was on the wall when Aaron Barnhart tabbed it American Dreams with boobs.
The more surprising info in that EW article is that Whitney got picked up for a full season. While it's not bleeding viewers, last week episode underperformed the previous year's episode of Outsourced. Then again, Outsourced got a full season, so it could just be that NBC will take the hit to have some stability. That must make Maria Bello happy, though reruns of Prime Suspect will show up in The Playboy Club's former spot for the next few weeks, which may help.
The show that's being mentioned as the long-term replacement is the newsmagazine Rock Center with Brian Williams. Based on the name I'm assuming the show is about football, or musicians, or football-playing musicians.
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Tuesday, October 04, 2011
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