“Swingtown” Finally Swings Onto TV Screens

Remember way back in May when I told you about the new CBS drama, “Swingtown,” about swinging couples in 1970s suburbia?

You’re finally about to see it…

CBS has announced that “Swingtown” is getting a summer run. The show was originally scheduled for midseason, and then the executive producer went back to “Jericho” after the fans resurrected it, and then the writers’ strike happened.

The show was meant to be part of CBS’s attempt to push the boundaries. But the network’s first two attempts at that—“Viva Laughlin” and “Kid Nation”—both failed and its third, “Moonlight” is on the bubble. Those failures, a summer run, the FCC’s continued crackdown on racy content and protests by family values watchdog groups of such shows do not bode well…

“Swingtown” will be joined on CBS’s summer schedule by “Flashpoint,” a drama about a strategic response unit based on Toronto’s Emergency Task Force…