Even the broadcast networks have realized anything worth watching is on cable. Mad Men, Project Runway (for now), Gossip Girl, even The freakin' Hills. Which is why CBS, home to the oldest viewers watching television, thought it might do something dramatic: Order up a series that belongs on cable, but would be broadcast on the tiffany network. That series is Swingtown, set in the 1970s world of white couples swinging in the suburbs, and from what we've seen so far, it's quite brilliant.

Naturally, advertisers hate it.

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