NBC’s ‘The Playboy Club’ Will Air In Salt Lake City … On MyNetworkTV
KMYU-TV, the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Salt Lake City, is picking up the NBC drama The Playboy Club almost two weeks after the city’s NBC affiliate KSL dropped the series because of its subject matter. ”We respect the position of KSL and are pleased that KMYU can provide a home for The Playboy Club,” KMYU VP and general manager Steve Carlston told TVGuide. “This highly anticipated crime drama will now have the opportunity to be seen by the viewers throughout (the Salt Lake City market).” The series, a crime drama starring Eddie Cibrian and Amber Heard and set at the first Playboy Club in Chicago in the 1960s, will air in its regular Monday night slot in the fall. KSL, whose parent company is operated by the Mormon Church, was the only NBC affiliate to turn down the show.
If it airs at all it oughta be on ESPN or Spike. Otherwise I see no audience for this.
I’m not Mormon but, the viewers of Salt Lake City will still get to see the series, it’s a owner’s right to ban what ever they want, it’s their station. NBC has been through this before with this station and they have always gotten another station in the area to carry a show.
Besides, who really cares, The Playboy Club along with ABC’s Pan Am won’t last 13 weeks. Both will be expensive flops.
We are exposed to much worse on television then worrying about “The Playboy Club”. UTAH get it together! It is 2011.. Grow up!
I am a Mormon. And dangit! Mormons just believe.
Who cares? this will be canceled withing 5 episodes.