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Jeff Hephner Set As The Lead In ‘Playboy’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 3, 2011 @ 6:59pm PSTTags: Jeff Hephner, NBC, NBC Playboy, Playboy Pilot, Playboy Pilot Casting, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jeff Hephner just got his big break, landing the lead role in NBC’s drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV, Imagine TV and writer-executive producer Chad Hodge, is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. Hephner went through rigorous auditioning process, beating a number of better known actors for the role, the last major part in the pilot to get cast. And he certainly has the right last name for it that sounds exactly like the  moniker of the king of the Playboy empire, Hugh Hefner.

Playboy centers on Nick Dalton (Hephner), described as “the ultimate playboy.” He is an attorney in Chicago and a Keyholder at the glamorous, exclusive Playboy Club. A fixer who knows how to make problems disappear, he has mysterious ties to the mob. The pilot, directed by Alan Taylor, co-stars Laura Benanti, Amber Heard, Naturi Naughton, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Leah Renee, David Krumholtz and Wes Ramsey. Hephner, repped by Paradigm and the Group Entertainment, is recurring on CW’s Hellcats and has also done arcs on NBC’s Mercy and Fox’s The O.C.

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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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NBC Picks Up 1960s Playboy Drama To Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 5, 2011 @ 5:06pm PSTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Bob Greenblatt, Brian Grazer, Chad Hodge, Imagine TV, NBC Development, NBC Playboy, Playboy Pilot, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

NBC has made its first drama pilot order this development season and it has gone to Playboy, a period drama about Playboy bunnies in the Chicago club in the 1960s. The project, set against the background of the political … Read More »

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