Comments on: Will Swingtown Be Cancelled or Resurrected?

By: mc

mc — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:21:15 +0000

I’m really bummed this show is being cancelled, I relly enjoyed it had a good story line, the sets were really authentic 70′s. I hope a cable co picks it up.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:27:10 +0000

They get us hooked on a great show like this and then yank it out from under us, threatening to cancel it, only to move it to a cable channel where one must shell out more money to be able to watch it. I’ll bet they had this planned ALL along!! They had every intention of keeping it on the air, they just needed to get a huge audience in order to force some of us into throwing in the towel and subscribing to something we don’t even want, except for one show. I bet most of us do not even have Showtime. What a clever way to extort money!

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:29:54 +0000

I am not surprised they canceled this show, they cancel EVERY show that hits the younger generation that usually watches TV online. Anyone who says it “advocates” the lifestyle has obviously never WATCHED the show. If anything it would steer people away from it because it’s so honest about how much work it takes to swing the “right way”.

Anyway, I just found season1 on netflix and watched the entire thing back to back, it’s a great (and honest) show. I think it really touches on the realities of all relationships and the amount of BS denial most couples live with. How much people pretend to be happy and hide reality. Watching each of the couples realize this in their own ways was really cool, and I love the way all 3 of the main couples go through the same problems in different ways.

I am so sad the show was canceled after only 1 season. When are the networks going to figure out that the ratings system is SO BROKEN!!!!! STOP canceling good shows just because the ratings system stopped functioning a couple years ago, and intelligent people watch TV differently!!!!!

By: SW

SW — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:45:56 +0000

I LOVED this show. I loved the outfits, the music and the fact that they incorporated the political climate of the 70s. It was not just about a bunch of swingers. It was actually a complex show with a great cast of actors. I didn’t miss an episode and that says a lot considering the show only aired during the busy Summer season.

By: ldjones

ldjones — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:27:06 +0000

I loved Swingtown and I would love to see it come back for another chance. Why can’t people understand that it is only a tv show and if they object to the content all they have to do is change the channel. It is not now or ever was my life style, and the show didn’t make me want to try “swinging”, it is only a tv show. I also watched the 3 Stooges [also only a tv show] and I never thought about making shoe soup or hitting anybody with a hammer. This is only entertainment if you don’t like something all you have to do is change the channel. A tv show has never given anybody an std.

By: 70's kid

70's kid — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:58:19 +0000

I think that we have to remember that this was a television show reflecting real life. Even though the 70′s flaunted drugs and sex, the whole country wasn’t corrupt. I grew up in the 70′s and went through all the disco, bell-bottom jeans crazes and had a blast. I wouldn’t have traded my life for anything and quite honestly remember our country having much stronger moral values then than we do now. The problems still existed, but at least they weren’t plastered all over the news.

By the way, some of the most controversial television shows of the 70′s on were: Dallas (JR cheating on his wife, illegitimite children, and wives with guns ready to kill their husbands); Knots Landing, etc., etc. Please keep in mind, these were night-time soap operas, no different from soaps that had been around as early as the 1930′s on RADIO. They might not have been as racy, but they were still just as controversial.

By: Mandi

Mandi — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:26:53 +0000

What happened to TV as being something we escaped our daily lives. I love Swingtown!!! Doesn’t mean that I’m going to go “swing” it’s just a fantasy life. Something new and a different aspect on life and for everybody bashing the show… You can’t protect everyone. We know what’s out there and it’s only your own responsibility to protect yourself…So STOP PREACHING!!!!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:26:50 +0000

I really like this show. I hope someone picks it up and it continues. I’m not a big TV watcher but this was one show that I watched every week.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:03:46 +0000

I like the idea of moving it to Showtime where they would have more freedom creatively in how they deal with the subject matter. Sounds like a cool idea to me.

By: maureen

maureen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:58:06 +0000

I was also really looking forward to the show returning.Yeah leaving us hanging really stinks!!

By: kayla

kayla — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:52:34 +0000

I really looked foward to that show, it was something to watch during the summer time and i think that the CBS network should be ashamed of them sleves, you cant just leave something half done, its bad form!!!!!!!!!

By: Georgia

Georgia — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:36:06 +0000

I think that it is a shame when we have our men and women out there in Iraq and Afghanastan fighting to give us the freedom of speech and freedom to watch what we want on TV. Personally I loved this show and watched it all of the time. I am sad to see that it has gone off of regular TV because I cant afford cable or satellite. If you have a problem with the show, you know God did give you a brain to pick up an apparatus called a remote control and change the station. I feel that when it comes to filtering what we watch on TV that we might as well be under dictatorship or communism. I guess I was wrongly told that America is the land of the free. Swingtown I will miss your show. Shame you cant put it on Fox. I mean you have the Simpsons and the Family Guy, What is so wrong with Swingtown if you watch them shows? They are equally degrading if not more than Swingtown. Just goes to show we still have Hitlers, Stalins and Gorbachev’s in our own country. Now I have to find someone with cable or satellite to record it for me so I can watch it. Thanks CBS and you all who boo’ed it off the air.

By: DONNA

DONNA — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:53:37 +0000

OH MY GOD!!!!! COME ON PEOPLE THIS SHOW IS GREAT FOR ALL OF US GROWING UP IN THAT ERA GET REAL. MAYBE CBS SHOULD PUT IT ON LATER YA THINK. THE CAST WAS SO REAL TO THIERE PARTS THAT I CAN RELATE TO SOME OF THEM. I THINK IT IS ABOUT TIME TO STOP PUTTING STUFF ON TV THAT WE DONT WANT TO SEE AND GET REAL WITH WHAT WE DO WANT TO SEE. ENOUGH WITH REALITY SHOWS ALREADY IM BORED. BRING THE SHOW BACK OK. YES THE 70′S WAS A BAD TIME FOR STDS AND WHATEVER BUT WE WERE SMART AND DID THE RIGHT THING. GROW UP AMERICA THIS SHOW IS FOR US GRUPS OK.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:19:30 +0000

I am very sad to know that Swingtown will not be returning. I think that it brought us to a way of life that many have wondered about. I hope that one of the networks decide to continue it. I am surprised that it was cancelled due to ratings, most that I know watched it.

By: Natasha Grenier

Natasha Grenier — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:31:16 +0000

I too loved the show – it was funny, intriguing, and captured alot of what couples who are married still inherently go thru (whether they act on it or not is all together different)
YES, little “angel” the first commentator should take her head out of the sand, loosen up a bit and attempt this great thing called life. Her inhibitions are smothering her.
Seems CBS has a hard time keeping fans happy with shows we love. I loved Cain, and they cancelled that one too. Come on

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:53:40 +0000

I think the show was very entertaining. It was something fun and different and if people can’t educate themselves about sex and STD’s than they are idiots! It is a TV Show…Geeze. People need to relax!

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:36:21 +0000

Wow you people are pathetic especially Anglescrest

By: Mrs. C

Mrs. C — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:53:27 +0000

this show was fun, I was looking forward to watching more this summer! Wish I had seen this site sooner, I’d have some great stuff to tell the ignorant person who is the first post on here! Welcome to the real world baby!

By: Patti

Patti — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:33:07 +0000

I AM SOOOOOOO DISAPPOINTED!!!!! I LOVED THE SHOW FROM THE BEGINING, THE MUSIC THE CLOTHES, THE HAIR IT TOOK ME BACK AND I WAS JUST A KID IN THE 70′S. ALOT OF YOU PEOPLE NEED TO GET OVER THINGS ITS A SHOW MOVE ON IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT

BRING IT BACK PLEASE!!!!!!!

By: Kita

Kita — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:31:52 +0000

Damn, Damn, Damn.

First Journeyman, now Swingtown. We get involved in a show that shows a depth and quality not evident in so many of today’s primetime dramas, and they yank it right out from underneath us. And for what? Another reality TV series?

What a shame.

By: wendy

wendy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:23:31 +0000

Well no matter what you guys say I liked the show. Surely we all know how to protect ourselves from std s now dont we, Its a show not real life….

By: SLS Members

SLS Members — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:00:26 +0000

We anxiousley awaited the shows arrival, and then it came and went. We truly miss this show and continue to hope it comes back. Being swingers for 10 years now, we keep our lifestyle choice very quiet. No one in our family knows about us. We are discreet, and really it’s our choice to swing. That’s the beauty of it. The show is really about responsible swingers. Those guys do not just “do” everything and everybody. Much like ourselves. We have only played with a handful of people that we trusted and not everyone we met. There had to be a relationship involved. But here’s the secret. Use condoms. Your a fool if you don’t. Responsible swingers can have fun! We do!

By: Spinklet

Spinklet — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:05:56 +0000

I didn’t like the show in the beginning… but I did grow to love it. The hubby and I are great fans of it. We are VERY disappointed that CBS won’t renew it. Give it one more chance. It will have the same “cult” following as Northern Exposure or the new United States of Tara. Swingtown is funny, relativly realistic and just plain fun to watch aqnd the music is just great. Even though Hubby & I are in the Lifestyle, and yes, people in the lifestyle require safe sex, if we weren’t the show would still be great. If you don’t like it, TURN IT OFF. I think that many that don’t like it simply wish they were able to do what the characters on the show are able to do. Stop being jealous and bring back our show!!!

By: jackee

jackee — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:11:12 +0000

seriously, this was an awesome show, it showed how people lived back in the day. and sure this kind of behavior still goes on today. Its not like it was on to early that young kids would be watching it or anything. I just think people need to live in the 21st century and open their eyes because this kind of stuff goes on every day and is going to keep going on every day whether they like it or not. so stop being prudes and give us another exciting season!

By: Stacey

Stacey — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:18:51 +0000

I love the show. I was a little kid when this was happening, but I remember the clothes. I remember the free spirits. We used to roller skate a lot and it was a much simpler time then. I just don’t get why people are saying their so offended by this show. I’ve read this is when the Herpes epidemic started and the spread of (back then, VD) better known as STD’s now. Well, today, we are plagued by HIV and Hep C and gay marriages. Why isn’t anyone offended by these things? These weren’t heard of back then. Now adays when someone has something iffy below the belt, they now pray “oh god please let it be Herpes”! What’s wrong with people? They scream about gay rights but yet they’re offended by a show like this? Come on, get real. This stuff really happened because people were experimenting and discovering themselves. Why is that offensive? It’s no more offensive than Obama trying to pass himself off as more of a black man than he is a white man. (He’s equally both). Is that history? It’s slowly easing us into history. This show is nostalgic. Let it go. I love it!

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:24:14 +0000

Well “angelscrest”, I guess I am a bit late to your diatribe that Swingtown is the equivalent of a golden calf and that the behaviors exploited during the 70′s, and subesequently on CBS, show how AIDS arose.

Oh, you silly silly uneducated, myopic piece of human debris. Do your homework, or at least attempt to fire your synapses before they hit the keyboard. AIDS has been around LONG before the 1970′s, so has chlymidia, genital warts, gonnorhea, syphillis, etc.

Remember, when you point your finger at someone, there are four pointing right back … lest you forget Jim Baker, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Bob Allen, Glenn Murphy Jr, etc. Heck, I’m tired of typing … here’s a link:

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals

And if you want to grab that thing called a “Bible” …

“Judge not lest thee be judged”

By: Susan L

Susan L — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:58:50 +0000

OK! I am 49 years old and have seen alot of TV in my life. Some good. Some not. Quite frankly, most of the stuff on right now, to me, is stupid. I cannot stand alot of shows like the reality shows, the dancing or the singing stuff, so after all these years of watching TV they put on a show that had some (whoops, should I say it…hmmm I don’t want to offend anyone) sex on it, they had swingers on there and a great story line. I agree with the past posters, TURN THE DARN CHANNEL IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT or were offended.
It was a great show, and true to the times! Sorry, but if your parents were honest with you, that stuff was going on back then and by the way, IT STILL DOES! I personally LOVED the show and I will miss it greatly. My husband and I watched it every week and it blows that they are looking at canceling it. So many people did like it and contrary to others beliefs, putting a new show on in the summer is never a good idea. Repeats or not, most people are vacationing and don’t even know there are new shows on.
I hope they bring it back. This is one older lady that will be sitting there every week to watch!

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:44:44 +0000

Great show….Please Bring back to tv……….

By: John

John — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:43:02 +0000

I got hooked on this show the first day it was on. I have read the closed minded comments and the positive. If you don’t approve of this show turn it somewhere else. I am amazed at how much of a Bible belt comments are made. If you are so judgmental. It was the real world in that era if you shelterd yourself and are scared of a tv show ,I feel bad for you out in the real world. It is a show for mature open minded adults. I wish the show was brought back on. Great story lines, not tacky, great actors. I remember when people thought Love Boat was risky and I was a young teen when that was out. Same with Knots Landing. If you watch watch a Soap. People are lying, screwing and aother things this is reality we may or may not approve it is just real.
Great show please bring it back.

By: B C

B C — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:04:12 +0000

THAT SUCKS SWINGTOWN WAS CANCELLED! I WAS SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS SEASON. I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT SHOW.

By: wildangel

wildangel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:12:05 +0000

Bring the show back!!!!! I don’t watch reality T.V. and this was a fun show to watch. I also watched Moonlight–what is wrong with CBS anyway?? You bring new shows on, let them play a bit, and then cancel??!! I STOPPED watching new shows just for that reason. GIVE THEM A CHANCE!!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:40:51 +0000

Get over it, people! Its a tv show, thats all! Its shows how life was in the seventies, not now! Please, grow up !

PUT IT BACK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Gisele B

Gisele B — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:45:21 +0000

I really enjoyed Swingtown; however….I’ve always suggested from the beginning that show has too much “sex” in it….o.k. I know that’s the title name… “swing” town, but if writers were to get more involved with each other’s lives and the children as well, extend those stories, get deep into it along with the swinging, it would be a great show…I think the writers or producers concentrated too much on “swinging”….good gravy, these people had lives too….perhaps some of us would like to know more about each person….the swinging would have just been a big bonus…make it like any other show…in that I want to know more about the characters…PLEASE BRING IT BACK….

By: Hayley

Hayley — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:35:25 +0000

I find it humorous that people think this show is “advocating” this type of lifestyle. I see the show more as a very vivid look into the past. It tells the pretend story of swinging partners… and I hardly consider it “advocating” when Susan and Bruce, a previously very happy couple, are now both cheating on each other and more than likely headed for divorce because of their new found love for swinging. I hope people who watch the show have some common sense and realize that they shouldn’t swing so freely these days anymore, no matter how “fun” it looks. It might work for some people, but I think that’s rare to find.
In any case, I love this show…. another season would be great!!

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:49:26 +0000

Swingtown was one of the best shows out there! I am NOT a swinger nor am I interested in becoming one. But the show is entertainment. The characters were interesting the sets were amazing and all the details were so realistic for the time period. I think we all watch shows that we don’t necessarily agree with. I’m a huge fan of the sopranos but am not a member of the mob. I also love Law & Order and am not a cop or a suspect. I love Big Love and have no plans to be someone’s additional wife. It is possible to watch a show for the entertainment purposes not as an educational “how-to” manual for your life. If you can’t see the show for what it is—- entertainment, don’t watch it. I know so many people who loved and faithfully watched the show (albeit on DVR due to the Friday schedule). Move it to another night so that the fuddy duddy’s that are home every Friday night can watch 20/20 or Jeopardy. Give us our show back! The cast was classic and perfect for the job. Bring it back!!!!!

By: susie

susie — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:35:04 +0000

I was so looking forward to the second season. I am so disappointed. I really got into swingtown

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:29:33 +0000

LOVED this show!!! Escape from reality; not that I condone the lifestyle at all, but I got caught up in the show and it was fun.

By: sweet rose

sweet rose — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:27:11 +0000

Being a ‘modern’ swinger, i.e. I swing & yes it is still very much a live in the US and worldwide, I loved the show. It brought into the light swingers as normal everyday people. Your next door nieghbor, parents of your kids’ friends, and co-workers. What completely blows my mind is that we as swingers do not try to impose our beliefs, opinions and desires on your the general population as the self appointed ‘morale watch dogs’ do us. What we do is our business, safe sex is practiced, there are guidelines and self imposed rules for the swinging lifestyle. I have been to public bars and to private clubs, at public bars I have been hit on and when turned down the person would get beligerant saying I didn’t really mean no or I really welcomed his/her advances. In private clubs you must read and agree to the club rules. One being — No means NO…Memebers of the swing lifestyle know the meaning of the word and respect the person when the answer is no.

Swingtown was/is a well written show and deserves another chance…but I agree that it does not belong on CBS. It should be aired on FX, HBO or another cable network.

To those of you who think you know best for the entire world…I suggest you look within and tend to your own lives.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:49:27 +0000

I liked it , my teenager liked it too…. bring it back , bring it back , weve been looking forward to it .Please don’t let us down that was a fun show with a different twist from all of the regular shows that still air

By: ldjones

ldjones — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:06:07 +0000

I absolutly love swingtown. It’s just a tv show, an entertaining tv show. It is not my lifestyle and it does not make me want a swinging lifestyle. It is just a tv show, if you don’t like it “change the channel”. I hope they give it another chance. I bought the first season from amazon and hope to add more seasons to my collection.

By: ScorpioQueen

ScorpioQueen — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:18:54 +0000

Well, this just plain BLOWS! It brought back memories of a happier time for me. I was born in ’68 and my parents had friends who I now know were swingers. I couldn’t give a rat’s ass. I still had parents at that point. Who would guess that I’d be an orphan at 37? We were a “Nielsen family” throughout the ’70′s and, to this day, I wonder what, if any impact we had as they didn’t seem to listen to us back then.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:41:06 +0000

I hate reality TV. I never watch any of it and the networks are pulling any soap style show ormoving it to a bad night. I loved this show and watched or DVR’d every episode. I got my husband hooked. People watch what is forced on tem and if all there is on TV is reality TV then that is what they are going to watch. Take it away and they will find something else to like. It’s that simple. People are pawns in the networks hands and like drons do what they are formatted to do. Please stop with all the reality TV and keep show like this on the air.

By: Belynda

Belynda — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:31:43 +0000

I just found out that the show was cancelled, very upseting. My husband a I looked forward to watching this show every week, I really hope a network picks up the show..and for all you people that have such negative things to say about the show…why are you even on here looking it up? You know there is a side of you that wants to try it.

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:15:34 +0000

The show should definitely move to showtime. It would allow the show to really push the envelope. It is a great show and apparently the creators really took some time to get a lot of period pieces on the set. There was so much left unsaid and I would really like to see which direction the characters go. I would really like to see this show come back somehow.
As for those who dont agree with the morals and values of the show…dont watch it. You cant please all of the people all of the time.

By: letrbuck

letrbuck — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:55:14 +0000

I agree with lissamarieo4. I too just found out that it was canceled and am VERY disappointed. It is a part of history, like it or not, and it is just for entertainment. I’m sick of all the reality shows and Japanese turned American game shows. And, frankly, I would rather see people ‘love’ each other than see the gruesome ‘reality’ of shows like Criminal Minds. If angelscrest is so concerned about the morals of Swingtown and thinks it will influence people, how ’bout those sicko’s out there watching Criminal Minds and the likes? Get over it and don’t watch what you don’t like, but leave some variety for the rest of us!

By: robyn

robyn — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:07:21 +0000

I for one loved this show.It never failed to get an”Oh,My God!’OUT OF ME.i WAS’NT THE ONLY ONE WHO WATCHED THIS SHOW,SEVERAL OF MY COWORKERS DID TOO.tHE ACTORS AND ACTING WAS WONDERFUL.i WISH THEY WOULD BRING IT BACK.

By: Sheri

Sheri — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:38:22 +0000

I am disappointed the show is cancelled. I really looked forward to watching it. As for all you people complaining about promiscuity, std’s, etc..it was a show about things that happened in that time period. What’s wrong with that? It was about relationships and the consequences of their decisions. For you to know show much about the show (and complain about it, point out the negatives), you must’ve watched it more then once. And, for someone to watch something more then once, means you must’ve like it. Maybe you’re just too much of a prude to admit you liked it. I myself am not a swinger and never was, but I did enjoy the storyline. I was born in 76 so I didn’t know much about the happenings in those days and was intrigued. Everyday, somewhere, people are doing things that some people don’t agree with. Should we not watch certain shows because they portray poor lifestyles or decisions? Of course not, that is why we watch them!

By: CDC

CDC — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:00:00 +0000

I was very disappointed in the cancellation of swingtown. It had a solid storyline, interesting characters, great music and on and on and on. People who think that this type of show promotes promiscuity are ignorant.

By: lissamarie04

lissamarie04 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:25:08 +0000

I just found out today that swingtown was canceled and I am disappointed. I very much enjoyed this show and was looking forward to watching it this season. Despite what other’s people’s opinions are about the moral of the show just remember that it was for entertainment value so their is no need to go bashing the show. Hopefully this show will be back somewhere at some point.

By: sarajane

sarajane — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:15:25 +0000

I liked the show – but it wasn’t that racy. It was on network tv, not on cable. I thought the characters were interesting, and could have been developed further, had it not been cancelled. Just a sidenote…. saying this show is just about sex and swinging is like saying that Lost is just about a plane crash. Or… that Six Feet Under was just about a funeral home. The mark of a good show (for me) is having believable, real, flawed people. From the episodes that I saw, it seems apparent that the show is not advocating swinging, it is showing the effects of swinging (among other things) on people’s relationships, many of which are negative.

It’s fiction…. if you want reality, you’d be hard pressed to find it on television.