NBC Plotting ’60s TV Drama Inspired By “Mad Men”

NBC is developing a serial drama set in 1960s inspired by Playboy bunnies, hot on the heels of the multi-Emmy-winning success of AMC’s nostalgic drama Mad Men.

It’s not difficult to picture the meeting where network executives sat around stroking their beards and asking themselves: “How can we rip-off Mad Men… but make it sexier?”

The result is Playboy, the tentative title of a drama project being developed by The Peacock, according to Variety. It’ll be set in “the frisky world” of a 1960s New York City Men’s Club, with the setting providing “a prism for exploring the nation’s changing mores and the coming sexual revolution,” TV industry tattles yapped to the trade paper.

Like we said: Mad Men, only sexier.

Tru Calling writer Chad Hodge is on board to executive produce — which TV aficionados already know is a not a great sign. If you ever actually watched Tru Calling (consider yourself lucky if you didn’t).

Shameless Mad Men rip-offs 1960s dramas are all the rage Stateside at the moment: rival network ABC is working on Pan Am, about the sexed-up crew of the once-famous airline.