The Girls Next Door
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The Girls Next Door is a reality television series that premiered in August 2005 on E! (Entertainment Television). In Australia, Mexico, Colombia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Germany the title is The Girls of the Playboy Mansion.
The series was created by executive producer Kevin Burns and Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. The series focuses on the lives of Hefner's three girlfriends who live with him at the Playboy Mansion: Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. Hefner and various other Playmates can be seen making cameo appearances.
The series not only showcased events at the Playboy Mansion (e.g. Fight Night, 4th of July celebration) but also shed light on other Playboy related events such as the Playboy Jazz Festival at Hollywood Bowl, Playboy playmate test shoots at Playboy Studio West, Operation Playmate, Party night, birthday parties, etc.
To celebrate the success of the series, Playboy published a special nude pictorial of Holly, Bridget, and Kendra in the November 2005 issue. The original eight-episode run of the series was expanded to fifteen episodes with the first season finale airing in early December 2005. The series' second season began on July 30, 2006. To celebrate the launch of the second season, a second nude pictorial of the trio was published in September 2006. The third season of the show began airing March 4, 2007. The tagline of the show is "You call it fantasy, they call it home."
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[edit] Episodes
| Number | Episode Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 00 | Hef's World (Unaired Pilot) | 8/1/2006 (Season 1 DVD) |
| Season 1 | ||
| 01 | Meet the Girls | 8/7/2005 |
| 02 | The New Girls in Town | 8/7/2005 |
| 03 | Happy Birthday, Kendra! | 8/14/2005 |
| 04 | What Happens in Vegas | 8/21/2005 |
| 05 | Fight Night | 8/28/2005 |
| 06 | Operation Playmate | 9/11/2005 |
| 07 | Just Shoot Me | 9/25/2005 |
| 08 | Midsummer Night's Dream | 10/2/2005 |
| 09 | Under the Covers | 10/23/2005 |
| 10 | Ghostbusted | 10/30/2005 |
| 11 | Grape Expectations | 11/6/2005 |
| 12 | I'll Take Manhattan | 11/13/2005 |
| 13 | My Kind of Town | 11/20/2005 |
| 14 | Clue-less | 11/27/2005 |
| 15 | It's Vegas, Baby | 12/4/2005 |
| Season 2 | ||
| 16 | Here's Looking at You, Hef | 7/30/2006 |
| 17 | Career Dazed | 8/6/2006 |
| 18 | 80 Is The New 40 | 8/6/2006 |
| 19 | Mutiny on the Booty | 8/13/2006 |
| 20 | San Diego or Bust | 8/20/2006 |
| 21 | Heavy Petting | 9/03/2006 |
| 22 | Sleepwear Optional | 9/10/2006 |
| 23 | I See London, I See France | 9/17/2006 |
| 24 | When in Rome | 9/24/2006 |
| 25 | Baby Talk | 10/1/2006 |
| 26 | The 21 Club | 10/8/2006 |
| 27 | Girls Will Be Ghouls | 10/15/2006 |
| 28 | The Age of Aquarium | 10/29/2006 |
| 29 | Rabbit Season | 11/05/2006 |
| 30 | We Can Work It Out | 11/12/2006 |
| 31 | Playboys After Dark | 11/19/2006 |
| Season 3 | ||
| 32 | Snow Place Like Home | 3/04/2007 |
| 33 | May The Farce Be With You | 3/11/2007 |
| 34 | Let Them Eat Birthday Cake | 3/18/2007 |
| 35 | My Bare Lady | 4/1/07 |
| 36 | Calendar Girls | 4/8/07 |
| 37 | Snowboarded | 4/15/07 |
- Note: Season Two Premiere was a special one-hour version of episodes #201 and #202 entitled, "Happy Birthday, Hef".
- Note: Episodes #213 (a.k.a., #27) and #301 (a.k.a., #32) were originally aired commercial-free.
[edit] Season 2 and 3
- E! ordered a second season that began airing on July 30, 2006.[1]
- Filming began in the second week of April 2006
- Episodes included traveling to San Diego, among other places, Hef's 80th and Kendra's 21st birthday.
- E! ordered a third season to begin airing on March 4, 2007.
[edit] DVD releases
- The first season was released on DVD on August 1, 2006[2]
- The second season will be released on DVD on May 1, 2007[3]
- The third season DVD release date is TBD
[edit] Ratings
The series premiere, Meet the Girls, fared very well. 990,000 viewers tuned in with a 0.5 rating/1 share among adults ages 18 to 49, roughly double the average number that E! pulls in that timeslot.[citation needed]
The first episode of Season 2 pulled in 1.6 million viewers, a 3-year high for an E! series.[citation needed]
The Third Season premiere, Snow Place Like Home, delivered the second highest-ratings for a series premiere in E!'s 16-year history. "Girls" averaged a 1.8 rating/5 share in adults 18-34 and attracted a total of 2.17 million viewers overall.[citation needed]
[edit] Trivia
- Season 2 was originally slated to begin on August 13, 2006.
- The three women made a cameo appearance in Scary Movie 4.
- Holly, Bridget, and Kendra were a voice on the animated television series Robot Chicken.
- Holly use to be a Hawaiian Tropic model.
- Bridget has a sister named Anastasia who has been on the show before.
- Kendra's mom use to be a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader.
- Bridget was married to Chad Christopher Marquardt (1997 - present) (separated).
[edit] References
- ^ www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch.aspx?id=girls_next_door&view=listings TV airing info. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
- ^ tvshowsondvd.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=5855 Release info on 1st season. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
- ^ tvshowsondvd.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=6447 Release info on 2nd season. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.
[edit] External links
- The Girls Next Door at E!
- The Girls Next Door at Playboy.com (Note: Contains nudity)
- The Girls Next Door at the Internet Movie Database
