'The Playboy Club' Advertisers Say They Didn't Abandon Show

The PTC wants them to stop running ads

NBC’s ratings-challenged new series The Playboy Club—which lost a million viewers in its second episode this week—has another problem to contend with: the Parents Television Council, which recently launched a campaign to convince the show's sponsors into dropping their support.

So why is the group riled up this time? “It’s the promotion of the Playboy Club brand by the network,” PTC policy chief Dan Isett told the New York Post. “We know what it stands for.

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