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NBC’s ‘Playboy’ Pilot Casts Two Bunnies

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 4, 2011 @ 1:04pm PSTTags: Alan Taylor Playboy, Amber Heard, Playboy Pilot, Playboy Pilot Casting, TV, TV Casting, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Amber Heard (Zombieland) and Naturi Naughton (Fame) are set as leads in the NBC drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV/Imagine TV, is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. CAA-repped Heard, who had been in talks for the project, will play Maureen, a new hire at the club, originally an orphan from Fort Wayne, an inquisitive young woman with an untethered sexuality and a dark past. Naughton, repped by Innovative and Luber Roklin, will play Brenda, a stunning African-American Bunny determined to become the first black Playboy centerfold who is Maureen’s confidante and roommate in the Bunny Dormitory. Interestingly, she also played a 1960s Black Playboy bunny in the Hands and Knees episode of Mad Men last year. Alan Taylor, who directed the pilot for AMC’s Mad Men, is directing Playboy from a script by Chad Hodge.

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Amber Heard In Talks For NBC’s ‘Playboy’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 12:57pm PSTTags: Alan Taylor Playboy, Amber Heard, NBC Playboy, Playboy Pilot, Playboy Pilot Casting, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Amber Heard (Zombieland) is in talks for a lead role on the NBC drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV/Imagine TV, is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. Heard would play a new hire at the … Read More »

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Several Broadcast Pilots Book Directors

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 28, 2011 @ 6:00am PSTTags: Alan Taylor Playboy, Jake Kasdan, Shonda Rhimes Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilot Directors
Nellie Andreeva

Alan Taylor, who won an Emmy for The Sopranos, has come on board to direct NBC’s drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV, Imagine TV and writer Chad Hodge, is set at a Chicago Playboy club in the 1960s. … Read More »

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