Goodbye Swingers, Hellooooooooo Bisexuals
Tonight is the season finale of “Swingtown” over on CBS and it very well could be the series finale. While the show grew on me a bit beyond my mostly negative review of the premiere, I won’t cry if it ends, because it’s still simply an ok show. And while it hasn’t been getting a lot of those “ratings” things the networks seem to like, there are of course some fans that want to save the show (and some CBS execs have also mentioned a keenness for the show — you may recall I previously told you about them trying to shop it around to the cable networks).
But these fans are so unoriginal — all they’ve done is setup an online petition. Remember the stupid-ass nuts campaign for “Jericho.” Well I for one think they need to be sending copies of Deep Throat to CBS. Who doesn’t like free porn?
But it may not much matter anyways, as the show’s creator is already on his way to greener pastures. As part of a new deal with CBS, Mike Kelley has created a new show for Showtime, called “BiCoastal.” The hour-long drama is about a married man in LA who winds up falling in love with a NYC man. Which means that Showtime must have figured with “The L Word” covering the female/female love, it was time to get a little man-on-man on the air. I’m sure the heinous Parents Television Council is already planning its outrage.
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To be honest, the fact that they still have the energy to protest at all almost endears them to me. They're tenacious, you've gotta give them that.
Posted by: Shay at September 5, 2008 9:22 AM
'The thing is women don't realise that I'm frank and earnest. In LA I'm Frank and in New York I'm Earnest.'
Posted by: ChrisD at September 5, 2008 11:10 AM
I'm sure the heinous Parents Television Council is already planning its outrage.
Too true. We've already drafted a strongly-worded letter and included reference-free statistics indicating that gay TV love kills baby seals. It's a way to get the PETA demographic on our side, and honestly we could use their input on mounting an effective protest.
Posted by: Mella at September 5, 2008 11:21 AM
Yes - let's hear it for the Jericho fans who sent nuts in to the studio to save the show, less than 10 years after Freaks and Geeks fans did the same thing! This is like the Republicans calling the Palin nom "historic" a mere 24 years after the Democrats nominated Geraldine Ferraro (to be fair though, I still haven't seen actual proof that Ferraro is a woman).
Posted by: Three-nineteen at September 5, 2008 11:24 AM
Didn't the Jericho fans 'save' the show, only to have it canceled the next season when no one watched it?
Posted by: Kash at September 5, 2008 11:35 AM
I love the little mid-screen ad for Toronto.
Wish I could hop in a plane and spend some more
time there. Lovely place.
Plus, I could head over to Quebec and greet
Jeremy the Canadian way.
Posted by: Drake at September 5, 2008 11:35 AM
This on CBS?!?!?
Before "CSI: Toledo" or after "Without a Cold Case"
Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 5, 2008 12:44 PM
That's also before "CSI: Boise" and "Touched By An Uncle."
Posted by: lordhelmet at September 5, 2008 1:41 PM
Is that after "Everyone Tolerates Raymond?"
Posted by: Empress of All the Russias at September 5, 2008 6:31 PM
Is that after "Everyone Tolerates Raymond?"
Posted by: Empress of All the Russias at September 5, 2008 6:32 PM
Did Showtime not cover man-on-man love enough with Queer As F#%k? (Oh, wait, that's not what it's called...)
Posted by: Cody at September 5, 2008 8:22 PM
While I applaud their progressive worldviews and permissiveness with regards to morality in general, I can't help but feel like Showtime is just late-night Skinimax slutted up with some lipstick and a storyline.
Don't get me wrong, I love me some Weeds and Dexter, but c'mon with the dramatic sexploration Showtime. It's all starting to feel oddly formulaic.
Exec - "Have we done guy on guy yet?"
Prod - "Uh... No, not as the center of a show."
Exec - "Do that but, since gay doesn't equal scandal and ratings anymore, spice it up and make the main gay also married to a chick. That'll really fucking piss people off."
Posted by: Roaddog at September 6, 2008 12:49 AM
