Today, Jenna Dewan-Tatum was finally able to make the exciting announcement on her Twitter about the fate of her new show “The Playboy Club,” and it was nothing but good news for her and her fans….
“Happy excited and grateful. Happy excited and grateful. Happy excited and grateful…Guys I can officially announce now that my new show The Playboy Club has been picked up! Can’t wait for you guys to see it!!”
Jenna headed to New York City today to attend NBC’s upfronts tomorrow. For those who don’t know, the upfronts are where the broadcasters unveil their fall schedules, announce their new programming, and show off their stars to the world.
As I previously reported, Jenna’s new show was the first pilot ordered into development this season by NBC. Jenna will play an iconic bunny named Janie in the hour-long drama that’s set during the political and moral upheaval of the 1960s and is centered around the voluptuous ladies of the original Chicago Playboy Club.
In addition to Jenna, the highly anticipated show, which The Daily Beast says has one of the
“eight strongest drama pilot scripts“, also stars Laura Benanti, Eddie Cibrian, Amber Heard, Leah Renee Cudmore, David Krumholtz, Wes Ramsey, Sean Maher, and Naturi Naughton.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner recently gave his seal of approval for the show when he tweeted…
“I watched a rough cut of the NBC pilot of “The Playboy Club” tonight. It really rocks.”
In addition to uber producer Brian Grazer (“A Beautiful Mind,” “American Gangster”), the executive producers on “The Playboy Club” include Chad Hodge (“Tru Calling”), Francie Calfo (“Scoundrels”), Jason Burns (“The House Bunny”) and Dick Rosenzweig (“Kendra”). Hodge also wrote the pilot, which was directed by Alan Taylor (“Mad Men,” “The Sopranos”, “Game of Thrones”). The series is produced by 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Television, and here’s the full description of the show from the network…
From Academy Award-winning executive producer Brian Grazer, “The Playboy Club” is a provocative new drama about a time and place that challenged the social mores, where a visionary entrepreneur created an empire and an icon changed American culture. It’s the early ‘60s, and the legendary Playboy Club in Chicago is the door to all of your fantasies — and the key is the most sought-after status symbol of its kind. Inside the seductive world of the bunny, the epitome of beauty and service, the clientele rubs shoulders with the decade’s biggest mobsters, politicos and entertainers. Nick Dalton (Eddie Cibrian, “CSI: Miami”) is one of the city’s top attorneys and the ultimate playboy, rubbing elbows with everyone in the city’s power structure. With mysterious ties to the mob, Nick comes to the aid of Maureen (Amber Heard, “Zombieland”), the stunning and innocent new bunny who accidentally kills the leader of the Bianchi crime family. Dating Nick is Carol-Lynne (Laura Benanti, “Take the Lead”), a bombshell and established star at the club who knows her days as a bunny are numbered and finds herself continually at odds with Billy (David Krumholtz, ”Numb3rs”), the club’s general manager. Adding to the charm of the Playboy club is Janie (Jenna Dewan Tatum, “American Virgin”), the carefree life of the party who is dating Max (Wes Ramsey, “CSI: Miami”), an overly protective bartender. Also starring are Naturi Naughton (“Fame”) and Leah Renee (“True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet”).
“The Playboy Club” will hit the small screen this fall after “The Sing-Off” at 9pm Central. Below, fans can watch three new sneak peeks at Jenna’s show. In the first trailer, you’ll hear what I believe is the intro and voice over Mr. Hefner recorded for the pilot last month…
Here’s the trailer called “A Bunny in Trouble“, featuring Amber Heard and Eddie Cibrian…
Here’s an interview with Amber Heard that gives fans a first look at Jenna in her red bunny costume…
Fans can check out more videos from “The Playboy Club” on NBC’s website, and you can also follow the show on Facebook and Twitter.
The pilot for “The Playboy Club” was filmed in March at the old Meigs Terminal on Northerly Island in Chicago. Although NBC has not confirmed that the series will shoot in the Windy City, Betsy Steinberg, managing director of the Illinois Film Office, told the Chicago Tribune that it will be filming there.
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[...] TweetNBC officially announced the pickup of Jenna Dewan-Tatum‘s new show “The Playboy Club” this week, and Jenna headed to New York City to attend NBC’s upfronts on May 16th where they unveiled their fall schedule, announced their new programming, and showed off their stars to the world. “The Playboy Club” will hit the small screen this fall after “The Sing-Off” at 9pm Central, but today, fans can checkout new pics of Jenna looking stunning at the upfronts and at NBC’s after party from Jenna-Dewan.us, Leann Rimes (the wife of Jenna’s “Playboy Club” co-star Eddie Cibrian), and more… [...]