'The Playboy Club' Clips Debut: Amber Heard, Eddie Cibrian Star (VIDEO)

It started as a taboo-challenging nightspot set to push boundaries and hemlines. Now, it's major network TV.

NBC announced that its new 1960's set drama "The Playboy Club" has been picked up to series for next season, grabbing the 10-11 pm Monday night timeslot. Set in the Playboy Club lounge in Chicago, the show follows Nick Dalton (played by Eddie Cibrian), a handsome mob-tied lawyer and man of the town, and Playboy Club waitress Maureen (played by Amber Heard).

The show is part of the network's attempt to shake up its inertia and last place standing.

To accompany the announcement, NBC has released four clips, which show both the glitz and grit of the subject matter and stars.

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Comments

[vikki2832]

07:57 PM on 06/30/2011

In the 70's went with someone who had the key, the NY Playboy Club.

[saileyboy]

07:11 AM on 06/21/2011

Long ago my dad took me to the Playboy club in Lake Geneva. Why they would give that bum a key I'll never know. So I am fascinated by bunnies. Probably won't be watching this show, but call me when they do "Huslter".

[John Amiria]

09:02 AM on 05/21/2011

'Mad Men' with 'Bunnies'.

[CAMBEL]

01:02 PM on 05/17/2011

There are still "Playboy Clubs"?????

[marred]

10:26 PM on 05/16/2011

I have no idea what this show is about but I will be watching it... a lot.

[jdrourke]

07:30 PM on 05/16/2011

Wait a minute! Where's Chynna? Or Marge Simpson? This isn't the Playboy I'm getting used to...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/dear-playboy-magazine/

[BlackJAC]

06:56 PM on 05/16/2011

I have three Playboy Club mugs.
Suffice to say that NBC better not torpedo this the way they did Kings.

[Davey Johnson]

05:54 PM on 05/16/2011

Cheap TV. Yawn.

[brothers3]

04:39 PM on 05/16/2011

NBC? I can see it now. Just when one of the bunnies begins to lose her top, commercial break.

[YetAnotherAlex]

03:44 PM on 05/16/2011

This and ABC's Pan Am are shameless Mad Men ripoffs.

Still, I might give this show a chance. Naturi Noughton is in this and her character was so sweet on Mad Men.

[BlackJAC]

06:51 PM on 05/16/2011

Actually, Playboy is what ultimately inspired the world Mad Men depicts.

[tom palmer84]

05:05 PM on 06/04/2011

Playboy was a higher quality version of a type of magazine that had been around a long time already by 1953. They popularized a lifestyle, and continued to do so past its time. As a show, Pan Am and The Playboy Club are obviously ripoffs of Mad Men.

[Going In]

02:06 PM on 05/16/2011

Well, in the vacuum left by the hiatus of Mad Men, this show looks promising. I must say, however, that they have big shoes to fill. Watching the promo clips I can already tell that this series has a big network sheen to it already ... not necessarily a bad thing, but I worry that surface gloss will replace the snappy, taught dialogue and below-the-surface smoldering intrigue of MM. I wish them well and look forward to the pilot.

[Carbon Forteetoo]

01:55 PM on 05/16/2011

He's no Don Draper.

[proudloudlib]

01:52 PM on 05/16/2011

Love him or hate him, Eddie is one good-looking guy. Wasn't he on The Young and the Restless as a teenager a long time ago? Definitely improving with age.

[MissIndependentLady]

08:44 PM on 05/16/2011

Agreed. If he was single, I'd be all over that.

[johnnygoodwud]

01:46 PM on 05/16/2011

while i was in college went to the original in chitown.. woo-hoo back than. now, kind of a cliche.

[The Revolving Diet]

01:22 PM on 05/16/2011

This looks like ti will be pretty good - as long as the writing stays strong.