from www.popwatch.ew.com - NBC is putting together a period drama set in the 1960s at a Playboy club, according to Variety. Playboy (catchy name!) “would center on a group of women working as Playboy bunnies in the New York Club,” which would serve as a lens for the “changing mores” of the time. Chad Hodge (Runaway, Tru Calling) is the executive producer.
Iiiiiinteresting. Network television doesn’t have a great track record for period pieces in the last several years — CBS’s Swingtown met a premature demise, Life on Mars never took off — but of course, Mad Men is the gold standard now. Could Playboy be more in that vein? We’ve seen a little bit about the Playboy clubs this past season (oh, Lane), and it’s such an identifiable brand and concept I guess I’m not too surprised to see a show set there. I just really, really hope the show digs deeper into the sexual politics of the time, and doesn’t just glamorize and romanticize women wearing skimpy outfits and catering to men.
This isn’t the only ’60s-set drama in the works. Starz recently picked up Magic City, a Miami-set swinging ’60s show, too.
Would you watch a show set in a Playboy club, PopWatchers? Or does your interest in the ’60s only extend as far as Don Draper’s gaze?
