{"id":475,"date":"2011-10-04T18:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2011-10-04T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:55:57","slug":"transmissions-playboy-club-cancelled-up-all-night-and-whitney-given-full-season-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Playboy Club Cancelled, Up All Night and Whitney Given Full Season Pickups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first casualty of the fall season is NBC\u2019s The Playboy Club. The show only aired 3<a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/NBC-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-481\" title=\"NBC Universal Logos\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/NBC-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a> episodes and was axed by the network after its dismal performance in the ratings. On the flip side, NBC gave full season pick ups to both Up All Night and Whitney.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For those of you not familiar with these new comedies:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up All Night,&#8221; created by Emmy Award nominee Emily Spivey (NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Parks and Recreation&#8221; and &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;) and executive-produced by multi-Emmy winner Lorne Michaels (NBC\u2019s &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; and &#8220;30 Rock&#8221;), is an irreverent look at modern parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Christina Applegate (&#8220;Samantha Who?&#8221;) stars as Reagan Brinkley: loving wife, successful career woman, life of the party and, most recently, mom. Determined not to compromise her career or cool reputation to the clich\u00e9s of motherhood, Reagan adjusts to life with a baby and returns to work with the support of her stay-at-home husband, Chris (Will Arnett, &#8220;Arrested Development&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"NBC Video Widget\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/assets\/video\/widget\/widget.html?vid=1359020\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" height=\"347\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Reagan and Chris figure out their new life, self-doubt, sleep deprivation and the pressure of today&#8217;s parenting protocols rattle their confidence. What&#8217;s more, the endless needs of Reagan&#8217;s boss, ambitious but vulnerable talk-show host Ava (Maya Rudolph, &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; &#8220;Bridesmaids&#8221;), threaten to throw Reagan off balance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up All Night&#8221; is a Broadway Video and Universal Television production. Along with Michaels and Spivey, Jon Pollack (&#8220;30 Rock&#8221;) and Erin David (&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;) serve as executive producers. Christina Applegate, Eric Kranzler and Andrew Singer are producers.<br \/>\nUp All Night airs Wednesday nights at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nNBC\u2019s new multi-camera comedy \u201cWhitney\u201d is a hilarious look at modern-day love, which centers around Whitney (Whitney Cummings, \u201cChelsea Lately\u201d) and Alex (Chris D\u2019Elia, \u201cGlory Daze\u201d), a happily unmarried couple. Together for three years, the duo is in no rush to get hitched, which seems to get a mixed response from their friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whitney\u2019s close circle of girlfriends includes on one side: Lily (Zoe Lister-Jones, \u201cThe Other Guys\u201d), a romantic idealist who loves being in love, and on the other: Roxanne (Rhea Seehorn, \u201cThe Starter Wife\u201d), a recent divorcee who is practical, cynical, and dreading being single again. Lily and Roxanne\u2019s opposing points of view only exacerbate Whitney\u2019s own complicated outlook on relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"NBC Video Widget\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/assets\/video\/widget\/widget.html?vid=1359244\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"512\" height=\"347\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Completing their close-knit group is Neal (Maulik Pancholy, NBC\u2019s \u201c30 Rock\u201d), a real modern day Renaissance man \u2013 sensitive, cool and knows a little bit about everything and happens to be dating Lily. On the other end of the spectrum is Whitney and Alex\u2019s next-door neighbor Mark (Dan O\u2019Brien, \u201cHow I Met Your Mother\u201d), a police officer and total bachelor, who claims to be the ultimate player, but likes to talk a good game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, Whitney and Alex try to have a relationship on their own terms \u2013 in a world that expects a more traditional approach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhitney\u201d is produced by Universal Television in association with Stuber Pictures. Stuber (\u201cThe Break Up\u201d), Quan Phung, Betsy Thomas (\u201cMy Boys\u201d) and Barry Katz (\u201cLast Comic Standing\u201d) are executive producers along with Cummings and executive producer\/writer Andy Ackerman (\u201cSeinfeld,\u201d \u201cThe New Adventures of Old Christine\u201d), who directed the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Whitney airs Thursday nights at 9:30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first casualty of the fall season is NBC\u2019s The Playboy Club. The show only aired 3 episodes and was axed by the network after its dismal performance in the ratings. On the flip side, NBC gave full season pick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=475\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[14,30,47,149,121,120],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmissions","tag-james","tag-nbc","tag-news","tag-the-playboy-club","tag-up-all-night","tag-whitney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}