The Girls Next Door

This article is about the reality television series. For the movie, see The Girl Next Door.

The Girls Next Door is a reality television series that premiered in August 2005 on E! (Entertainment Television). In Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the title is The Girls of the Playboy Mansion.

The series is the brainchild of executive producer Kevin Burns and Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine. 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. Hefner and various other Playmates can be seen making cameo appearances.

The series not only showcased events at the Playboy Mansion (e.g. Fight Night, 4th of July celebration) but also shed light on other Playboy related events such as the Playboy Jazz Festival at Hollywood Bowl, Playboy playmate test shoots at Playboy Studio West, Operation Playmate, Party night, birthday parties, etc.

To celebrate the success of the series, Playboy published a special nude pictorial of Holly, Bridget, and Kendra 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.

The tagline of the show is, "You call it fantasy, they call it home."

Episodes

• Season 1 E! 9:00 P.M.; Sundays
• Season 2 E! 10:00 P.M.; Sundays

Number	Episode Title	Airdate
00	Hef's World (Unaired Pilot)	8/1/2006 (DVD)
01	Meet the Girls	8/7/2005
02	The New Girls in Town	8/7/2005
03	Happy Birthday, Kendra!	8/14/2005
04	What Happens in Vegas	8/21/2005
05	Fight Night	8/28/2005
06	Operation Playmate	9/11/2005
07	Just Shoot Me	9/25/2005
08	Midsummer Night's Dream	10/2/2005
09	Under the Covers	10/23/2005
10	Ghostbusted	10/30/2005
11	Grape Expectations	11/6/2005
12	I'll Take Manhattan	11/13/2005
13	My Kind of Town	11/20/2005
14	Clue-less	11/27/2005
15	It's Vegas, Baby	12/4/2005
16	Happy Birthday, Hef	7/30/2006
17	80 Is the New 40	8/6/2006
18	Career Dazed	8/6/2006
19	Mutiny on the Booty	8/13/2006
20	San Diego or Bust	8/20/2006
21	Heavy Petting	9/03/2006
22	Sleepwear Optional	9/10/2006
23	I See London, I See France	9/17/2006
24	When in Rome	9/24/2006
25	Baby Talk	10/1/2006
26	The 21 Club	10/8/2006
27	Girls Will Be Ghouls*	10/15/2006
28	The Age of Aquarium	10/29/2006
29	Rabbit Season	11/05/2006
30	We Can Work It Out	11/12/2006
31	Playboys After Dark	11/19/2006

• *note: special extended episode (originally aired commercial-free)

Season 2

• E! ordered a second season that began airing on July 30, 2006. [1] [2]
• Filming began in the second week of April 2006 [3] [4]
• Episodes included traveling to San Diego, among other places, Hef's 80th and Kendra's 21st birthday. [5]

DVD releases

• The first season was released on DVD on August 1, 2006 [6] [7]

Ratings

Little is known about the ratings of The Girls Next Door, since cable ratings are hard to find. But it is known that the series premiere, Meet the Girls/My Kind of Town fared very well. 990,000 viewers tuned in with a 0.5 rating/1 share among adults ages 18 to 49, roughly double the average number that E! pulls in that timeslot.

The first episode of Season 2 pulled in 1.6 million viewers, a 3-year high for an E! series.

Trivia

• Season 2 was originally slated to begin on August 13 2006.
• The three women made a cameo appearance in Scary Movie 4.
• In the United Kingdom the show airs on E! as Girls Of the Playboy Mansion.
• In Australia the show airs on E! as Girls of the Playboy Mansion
• In Germany the show airs on ViVa as Girls of the Playboy Mansion

Yahoo! Groups

Hundreds of posts a day can be found at all three women's Yahoo! Groups

• Holly's
• Bridget's

Of the three groups, Bridget's group "Brie" is the most active, peaking at 1200 posts in November, 2005.

Myspace

Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson have pages on Myspace.

• Holly's
• Bridget's
• Kendra's

External links

• The Girls Next Door.net
• Official Site of all the Girlfriends
• Official Holly Madison Website
• Official Bridget Marquardt Website
• Official Kendra Wilkinson Website
• The Girls Next Door at IMDb
• The Girls Next Door at E!
• The Girls Next Door at Playboy.com WARNING: contains nudity
• Myspace Group

Also, for links to the women's Myspaces and Yahoo! Groups, see above