mike kelley-related stories
Posted Sep 4th 2008 1:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Reality-Free
So Mike Kelley, the creator of CBS'
Swingtown, has a new show in the works called
BiCoastal. From that title, can you guess what the show is about?
Exactly.
BiCoastal will air on Showtime, and is about a husband and father in Los Angeles who finds himself falling in love with a man who lives in New York City. Something tells me that the
Parents Television Council is already making picket signs even as I type this. Or maybe they're just using the old ones, crossing out
NYPD Blue and replacing it with
BiCoastal.
Continue reading If you like Swingtown, you might like BiCoastal
Posted Jul 5th 2008 2:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Ratings, Reality-Free
How much of
Swingtown is real and how much is pure fiction? According to Mike Kelley,
Swingtown's creator,
there are elements in the show that come right from his childhood memories of growing up on the North Shore, a trendy suburb of Chicago. But the sex and the swinging? That's mostly creative license.
So were there really sex parties and swinging in the Kelley home? "You know, it comes from imagination, for the most part."
Inspired by 1976, the era of women's liberation, disco-dancing, the end of the Vietnam War, and sexual freedom thanks to the pill and no AIDS, Kelley balances the fantastic elements with nostalgia.
Continue reading What's really real in Swingtown?
Posted Dec 20th 2006 9:22AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, CBS, Industry
Keeping with its promise of
shying away from procedurals, CBS has ordered pilots for two seemingly unusual series. The first is centered around an ex-priest who travels around performing exorcisms. It's called
Demons. It's being created by Barbara Hall, who also created
Joan of Arcadia, and executive produced by movie man Joe Roth.
The second series is called
Swingtown and it sounds like it's bound for a 10 pm time slot. The series is set in the 1970s and is about a bunch of married couples who swap spouses. It's being created by Mike Kelley, writer and executive producer of
The O.C.Pilot season, by the way, is soon upon us. January is traditionally the time of year when the networks request pilots from all the television veterans and wanna-bes who have been pitching them this fall.
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