Eddie Cibrian will replace newcomer Jeff Hephner in NBC's upcoming pilot Playboy, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
Playboy follows Nick Dalton (Cibrian), a Chicago attorney in 1963 who is a key-holder at the Playboy club and has ties to organized crime. Amber Heard, Jenna Dewan-Tatum and Naturi Naughton have been cast as Playboy bunnies. David Krumholtz co-stars as the club's general manager.
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NBC has found its Hef — or "Heph," rather.
Jeff Hephner has scored the lead role in NBC's drama pilot Playboy, Deadline.com reports.
NBC developing drama set in Playboy clubs
The project takes place in 1963 and follows Nick Dalton (Hephner), a Chicago attorney who is a key-holder at the Playboy club and has ties to the mob.
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Guess what, guys? Christina Aguilera is not over her whole "Dirrty" phase, if the new video for "Not Myself Tonight" is any indication
In the S&M inspired clip, Aguilera wears several dominatrix-style outfits as she dances, crawls, writhes and makes obscene gestures. There's also a smattering of obligatory girl-on-girl action with Step Up's Jenna Dewan.
The video, which debuted on Vevo at midnight Thursday, is already being called a Lady Gaga and/or Madonna rip-off — which in many ways it is.
Watch the video after the jump. (WARNING: The following contains some seriously kinky stuff)
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Lifetime this summer will premiere Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal, a true-story-inspired movie about a group of out-of-control teen girls who taunt their teachers. Tatum O'Neal plays the principal, Jenna Dewan (Step Up) a young teach who alerts the media to the goings-on.... Rufus Sewell is the lead in Jerry Bruckheimer's CBS drama pilot Eleventh Hour, based on a British series about a government adviser who saves people from abuses of science.... Jacqueline Bisset will have An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving in a Hallmark movie airing in November.Related:• Bruckheimer, CBS Eye Big-bucks Eleventh Hour Deal
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Per Variety, now that the character has been reconceived as a 25- (versus 20-) year-old, The O.C.'s Rachel Bilson has replaced Teresa Palmer as Hayden Christensen's leading lady in the sci-fi thriller Jumper.... Friday Night Lights' Peter Berg is set to direct Tonight, He Comes, in which Will Smith stars as a superhero in existential crisis.... With World Trade Center now behind him, Oliver Stone next may bring to the big screen Jawbreaker, a look at how America responded to the terror attacks by invading Afghanistan. In other words, the first one was free, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Step Up's Jenna Dewan has joined the Revenge of the Nerds remake.... John Goodman will play a drug-ring boss in the vigilante drama Death Sentence.
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