• TV Guide, Tuesday, October 4, 2011 2:59 PM

Here comes the first casualty of the new TV season: NBC just canceled the retro drama "The Playboy Club." Why? Low ratings, plus an aggressive hate campaign by the Parents Television Council, which might have led to seven advertisers pulling out after the second episode.

Yep, odds are bad when you're targeted by the right and the left (no less a feminist icon than Gloria Steinem suggested we all boycott the show).

While Playboy bunnies are out at NBC, the network also just called for a full season of episodes of "Up All Night," the show about the results of, ouch, another kind of rabbit test (new parents deal with the travails of caring for their infant)-- along with "Whitney."

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