REality Show: Swingers in Suburbia.

[Danno 1,228]

Reality Series About Swingers Headed To TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 26, 2011 @ 12:10pm PDT

EXCLUSIVE: After exploring pot-dealing in suburbia in its dark comedy Weeds, Lionsgate Television is taking on another suburban taboo in a new reality series. Certain to create controversy, Bedroom Community revolves around a group of swingers -- suburban couples who swap partners. Lionsgate shot a presentation for the project, which is now being shopped to cable networks. Bedroom Community is one of the first projects shepherded by reality producer Eli Frankel, who in March signed a two-year deal with Lionsgate. "The world of swingers is mythologized in American pop culture, but very few people outside of it have seen it," Frankel said. And many would be surprised looking in, he said. "What we have seen on shows about swingers are primarily older hippies, fringe people who are a little bit dirty. What we found are elite groups of people in upscale communities who are good-looking and have money and access. That glossy version is much more interesting to watch." The series was cast after an extensive casting process, Frankel said, adding that "it took awhile to convince people to trust us and to convince them that the show was not going to be exploitative but just document people who are fairly normal but chose to do live their relationships on the edge." Focusing on family and inter-couple dynamics, Bedroom Community will chronicle the cast members' lives in their living rooms, not in their bedrooms. "It is not a show about sex but about people and their relationships," Frankel said. The swinging lifestyle was introduced to American suburbia in the 1960s, and was depicted in the praised but short-lived CBS drama series Swingtown, set in the 1970s.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/reality-series-about-swingers-headed-to-tv/

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The incremental slide towards the sewer... Hyperbole much?

[Danno 1,228]

The incremental slide towards the sewer... Hyperbole much?

I spoke in general terms, in your case it might be a "step up".

[Fandango 1,440]

It is a slide towards the sewer...why people feel the need to parade their lives' choices in front of a camera like that is beyond me.

You want to swing? Do so in the privacy of your own home and STFU about it.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

It is a slide towards the sewer...why people feel the need to parade their lives' choices in front of a camera like that is beyond me.

You want to swing? Do so in the privacy of your own home and STFU about it.

I don't think I have ever talked about that.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It is a slide towards the sewer...why people feel the need to parade their lives' choices in front of a camera like that is beyond me.

You want to swing? Do so in the privacy of your own home and STFU about it.

Rubbish it is. People have been swinging since the 60s and maybe even before that. It's just that until now, television producers haven't made programmes about it. TV is sensationalist, that's not new either.

I spoke in general terms, in your case it might be a "step up".

You wish Danno. You seem to believe you are some sort of champion of sexual morality. I don't understand why you are obsessed with other people's sex lives. Do you not have one of your own?

Edited May 28, 2011 by fishdude

[Danno 1,228]

Rubbish it is. People have been swinging since the 60s and maybe even before that. It's just that until now, television producers haven't made programmes about it. TV is sensationalist, that's not new either.

The point was not about people swinging... about the subject matter finding an audience on TV.

I'll bet with all that progressive blood pumping though your veins .... you could tell some stories from "back N the day"?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Danno loves to swing.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

What about gay swingers?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The point was not about people swinging... about the subject matter finding an audience on TV.

I'll bet with all that progressive blood pumping though your veins .... you could tell some stories from "back N the day"?

If that was 'the point' you must watch some pretty lightweight tv. There have been documentaries of all sorts, yet this one apparently represents some slide towards the sewer. Beautiful.

Nice one, not only have you variously called me gay and a child molester, but i'm apparently into swinging too. You're pathetic.

[Danno 1,228]

What about gay swingers?

"Gay swingers"

where have you been at,

That just goes with the territory.

[Andy H 1]

I don't see why conroversial TV is a bad thing, it creates debate. Has to be better than "oh my god did you see 90210!"

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Reality TV general makes for bad porn.

[Fandango 1,440]

If that was 'the point' you must watch some pretty lightweight tv. There have been documentaries of all sorts, yet this one apparently represents some slide towards the sewer. Beautiful.

It's not a 'documentary', it's the trend of 'reality' tv that somehow perpetrates this voyeuristic aspect to car-crash life.

When Snooki makes a commencement address at Rutgers, when 'the Situation' is on Dancing with 'the Stars'....when I can go to the grocery store and see magazine after magazine giving the 'scoop' on the 'real housewives' drama....when people feel the need to display their abnormal lifestyles to the world, when every frigging 'celebrity' couple needs to have a camera crew follow them 24/7, or 20 women vie for the 'undying love' and marriage proposal from a guy who - just seconds before proposing to his 'one and only' has to ruminate on the 'toughest decision ever' as to whom to ask....yeah...it's a downward slide into the sewer. It makes me wonder what people as a collective value, what they are willing to exchange parts of their lives to watch, how acting like a drunken fool hopping from bed to bed can net you $1 million an episode, and how we make these people celebrities for doing so. Yeah, that's pretty messed up if you ask me.

I read this thread once about 'Jersey Shore' where a poster wrote 'I weep for the future'.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

WRT this topic....if a couple wants to be swingers, then go for it. Not my cup of tea, but since it doesn't affect me, I'm not going to comment. But where is the discretion? Why is there a need to put one's sexual life on display? And why would there even be a demand for people to watch such tripe?

Edited May 28, 2011 by Anita Cocktail

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

What never ceases to amaze me is that people seem perfectly willing to write things off without bothering to watch them. It isn't too your taste, so don't watch it. I can think of a few dozen tv shows that aren't too my taste. Guess what, i don't watch them. However, it seems silly to take some silly moralising stance when you are completely ignorant of the content of the show or its presentation.

The sky is not falling just because someone makes a tv series about sensationalist subject matter. There is life beyond television...

"i accept for the future" give me a break. Why be so melodramatic!?

Edited May 28, 2011 by fishdude