Alan Taylor

NBC Pilot Playboy Finds a Top Director

• Jan 28, 2011 01:17 PM ET
• by Michael Schneider

Alan Taylor

The director who brought Mad Men to life will now do the same for another 1960s-set drama, the NBC pilot Playboy.

Alan Taylor was hired late Thursday to direct the pilot of Playboy, which takes place during the same era that helped make Mad Men a critical darling. Like Mad Men, Playboy is aiming to capture the look and feel of the social and cultural revolution of the early 1960s. The story follows the exploits of a group of women hired to work at a Playboy Club in Chicago.