Celebrity / Playboy NBC Gets Frisky With New Show: Playboy As Playboy clubs are relaunched, show about clubs arrives By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Jan 6, 2011 10:38 AM CST Copied In this photo taken Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010, waitresses pose inside the Playboy Club at the Sands Casino in Macau. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Playboy is coming to primetime. NBC ordered the pilot of the imaginatively-titled Playboy, a one-hour drama about the Playboy bunnies working in a Chicago Playboy club in the 1960s. There were once 22 Playboy clubs around the world, but all closed by 1991, Variety notes. The show arrives just as they may be experiencing a comeback, with new locations in Las Vegas and Macau. Also in TV-related Playboy news: Read about how the Playboy channel is reinventing itself by trying to appeal to women. (More Playboy stories.) Report an error