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The Girls Next Door |
| The Girls Next Door | |
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| Also known as | The Girls of the Playboy Mansion |
| Format | Reality television |
| Starring | Holly Madison Bridget Marquardt Kendra Wilkinson Hugh Hefner |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 61 (Including 2 Specials) |
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| Running time | About 22 mins. |
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| Original channel | E! |
| Original run | August 7, 2005 – present |
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| IMDb profile | |
The Girls Next Door, also known as The Girls of the Playboy Mansion, is an American reality television series broadcast on the E! cable television network. The series was created by executive producer Kevin Burns and Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine.
The fifth season of the show started airing on October 5, 2008.1 A sixth season was confirmed by Hugh Hefner.2
The tuxedo-wearing Playboy Bunny mascot is the icon for the show, appearing in its logo.
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The series focuses on the lives of Hefner's three girlfriends who live with him at the Playboy Mansion: Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt, and Kendra Wilkinson. Mr. Hefner is often on the show along with various Playmates and other celebrities.
The series not only showcases events at the Playboy Mansion (e.g. Fight Night, Fourth of July celebration, the midsummer celebration etc.), but also sheds light on other Playboy related events such as the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, Playmate test shoots at Playboy Studio West, Operation Playmate, party night, birthday parties, but more significantly the personalities and real lives of each of the Girls.
The Girls Next Door have appeared on the cover of Playboy three times. To celebrate the success of the series, Playboy published a nude pictorial of Madison, Marquardt, and Wilkinson in the November 2005 issue. The original eight-episode run of the series was expanded to fifteen episodes with the first season finale airing in early December 2005. The series' second season began on July 30, 2006. To celebrate the launch of the second season, a second nude pictorial of the trio was published in September 2006. The third season of the show began airing March 4, 2007. Their third Playboy appearance was in the March 2008 issue, celebrating them being voted fourth in Playboy's annual "Sexiest Celebrities" online poll.
The show's theme song is Nasty Tales' remix of "Come on-a My House;" words and music by William Saroyan and Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., who later, as David Seville, created The Chipmunks.
In October 2008, it was reported that Madison and Hefner had broken up.2 He also acknowledged that his relationship with Wilkinson "will be ending when she moves out, probably by the end of this year."3 In November 2008, it was announced that Wilkinson was engaged to NFL player Hank Baskett.4 The nuptials are to take place in June 2009 at the Playboy Mansion where Hefner will reportedly be giving the bride away.5 Despite this, Hefner also confirmed that the three girls are committed to a sixth season, though he will be looking for new live-in girlfriends.2
| Episode # | Episode Title | Airdate | Rating/Share (Adults 18-49) | Viewers | Notes |
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| 01 | Meet the Girls | 8/07/2005 | 0.8/1 | 990,000 | Roughly double the average number that E! pulls in that timeslot |
| 16 | Here's Looking at You, Hef | 7/30/2006 | N/A | 1.6 Million | 3-year high for an E! series |
| 32 | Snow Place Like Home | 3/04/2007 | 1.8/5 | 2.17 million | Second-highest season premiere in E!'s 16-year historycitation needed |
| 47 | Patriot Dames | 12/09/2007 | 1.6 | 2.0 million |
Since the show began, the three women have made cameo appearances in a variety of other films and television programs. They appeared in Scary Movie 4, lent their voices to an episode of Robot Chicken, and guest starred in an episode of the daytime drama General Hospital on August 29, 2008, as part of a Walter Mitty-like fantasy sequence by the character Damien Spinelli. The women have also appeared in a music video for the group Nickelback, in their song "Rockstar". They also appeared, along with Hefner, in the video for "Beverly Hills" by the group Weezer, which was filmed at the Playboy Mansion. Marquardt and Wilkinson also appeared on the November 5, 2007 edition of WWE Raw as the DX dancers.
There have also been cameo appearances by many stars on the "The Girls Next Door". Many stars of different genres have been seen, and every Playmate of the Year since 2004 has appeared on the show: Carmella DeCesare (2004), Tiffany Fallon (2005), Kara Monaco (2006) and Sara Jean Underwood (2007).
On July 1, 2008 the Girls Next Door appeared on NBC’s new show Celebrity Family Feud. They competed against Vincent Pastore of Sopranos fame. They did not win. They also appeared on the July 24, 2008 episode of Last Comic Standing in which the comics read bedtime stories to them and they granted Marcus immunity.
Hefner, Madison, Marquardt and Wilkinson appeared in the movie The House Bunny that was released in theatres on August 22, 2008.
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