Cheers & Jeers: Delivering a Playboy to Perform a Man's Job

Eddie Cibrian Jeers to Eddie Cibrian for subjecting his acting weak points around the Playboy Club. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine. The role of Nick Dalton - a politically ambitious Chicago attorney with gangland ties on NBC's overheated period drama - requires an actress having a Jon Hamm-esque heft. Cibrian, who's perhaps also known for his tabloid-magnet romance with LeAnn Rimes than his focus on previous Monday-at-10 pm dramas like CSI: Miami, Third Watch, and Chase, is a lot more like a pork-and-cheese sandwich. Cibrian is not even close to The Playboy Club's only problem: Studying history to ensure that scantily clad, sexually bothered nightclub waitresses are actually described as some type of proto-feminist trailblazers is really a achieve, as you would expect (ABC's new Pan Am makes an even more convincing situation for stewardesses as pioneers). And Hugh Hefner's croaking narration makes Club seem like an especially deadly episode of Tales in the Crypt. What have you think about Eddie Cibrian - and also the Playboy Club? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!