As the world (or at least a few of us) await word of the renewal of Swingtown, the network Bravo has announced that it has acquired re-run rights to the show, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
And while its good news that fans can catch their favorite Season 1 episodes again, it doesn’t necessarily help renewal [...]

TV Week tips us off today that CBS is bring back “Flashpoint” for another season. Fans may remember this show as the one that kicked Swingtown out of its 10 p.m. Thursday slot into the Friday basement.
The crime drama had been in that Friday night slot first, but showed promise according to TV Week, justifying [...]

TVbyNumbers.com’s Robert Seidman has a great post today inside the efforts to save Swingtown.
Leading with a mention of the the online efforts (like this site) to save a show that ‘hardly anyone seems to watch’, Seidman notes that there has been no formal word on a decision and its possible there could be NO word.
Among [...]

The TV Addict has an interesting post today on the season finale of Swingtown, noting that Swingtown Executive Producer Alan Poul told TV critics earlier this year, “The season ends with a cliffhanger, but it’s also a completely satisfying ending.
I have to agree that the cliffhangers left in Friday night’s wake were not truly ’satisfying’ [...]

Ducky Does TV has a great recap of the season finale, calling it ‘a show that deserved so much more attention than it received’.
Among the highlights:
Swingtown surpassed it’s randy premise and proved to be a show about change on the cusp of the bicentennial and it only got better as the summer went on.

On the [...]

According to TV by the Numbers, Swingtown’s season one finale clocked an estimated 3.62 million viewers in the initial overnight ratings from Neilson.
“The season (and perhaps series) finale of CBS’s Swingtown limped home with but 3.62 million viewers and a demo 1.2 rating / 4 share. There has been no announcement yet about renewal or cancellation, but [...]

Broadcasting and Cable is reporting that CBS Paramount, owners of Swingtown, is shopping Swingtown to cable outlets … which would also give the show more creative freedom without the FCC broadcasting rules.
The show, produced by the CBS Paramount Network Television studio, has had disappointing ratings in its debut run on CBS this summer. But it [...]

This Friday CBS will air the last episode of Swingtown, but the question of the future for the show still remains unanswered. Is this the series finale or just the season finale? Fans are concerned and I’ve been contacted by one who has started a petition online to present to CBS, beseeching the network to [...]

So: Are Susan and Roger finally going to sleep together? Will Bruce and Melinda make it past the make-out stage? Will the Deckers become parents? Will Janet really stay behind if Roger takes the Cincinnati job? (And will he really take it?) And will we ever find out the answers to these questions? If not, [...]

The summer’s officially over on Swingtown, marked by Tom’s Labor Day clambake at the shore, which turned out to also be a key party.
Now that the first season of the show has come to an end, it’s clear that while they explored hot topics like open marriage, wife-swapping and group sex, the essence of the [...]