Apparently there's a whole bunch of people who don't like this new summer replacement TV show on CBS, "Swingtown." The Hound knows this because the suits here have been getting lots of nasty letters on the order of this one from a person in Winthrop Harbor:
"I am offended by the content of the CBS program 'Swingtown.' The offensive content clearly violates our local community standards and does not reflect your license obligation 'to serve the public interest.'
"I urge you to refuse to air future episodes of 'Swingtown.' Stop polluting the air waves with such blatant trash!!
"I also ask you to place a copy of my complaint in your files according to FCC regulations."
If The Hound or The News-Sun owned a television station which happened to be a CBS affliate, we certainly would. However, this is a newspaper and unlike some multimedia giants, the closest we get to a television is the two here at the word factory.
So all you folks out there that think we own a CBS affiliate, lighten up. Send your hate mail to CBS in New York.
As for "Swingtown", if the blue noses don't like it, The Hound, who has heard it is about "swingers" --- the sexual variety --- in the 1970s, surely must. Although it airs past The Hound's bedtime, allegedly it is based upon a town in suburban Chicago.
The Hound first thought it might be about a Lake County town, but was told it is based on fictionalized events in Wilmette, on Cook County's North Shore. Even so, The Hound has been told of "swingers' parties" back in the '70s, where keys were tossed in suburban estate pools or dropped in fishbowls as guests arrived. Then they would discover whose keys belong to who and would hook up later.
The Hound is glad we have advanced past that stage in getting to know the opposite sex and your neighbors' husbands. Instead you can now use on-line dating services --- and swinging services.
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