Swingtown Producer & Sean Hayes to Bring Us Bi-Coastal Drama

-- snicks from AfterElton.com

 

While we're all anxiously awaiting to see if Swingtown will be renewed by CBS (or moved to a better another network), producer/creator Mike Kelley has inked a deal to produce more shows, including a very intriguing offering that's being co-produced by Sean Hayes.

Bi-Coastal is a one hour drama set to air on Showtime, and according to the press report, "it centers on a successful man who struggles to balance family life with his wife and kids in Los Angeles as he falls in love with a man in New York."

According to Kelley, you can expect something new and fresh:

 

"It has a lot of the watermarks of things I love to write about -- people with secrets and high-stakes love lives," Kelley said.

Compared to Swingtown, which was based on his childhood memories of his parents and their swinger friends, "I want to give 'BiCoastal' a bit of a harder edge and heightened sense of drama," Kelley said.

 

There's no word on casting, but it certainly sounds interesting, and because it's going to be on Showtime, it won't have that "neutered" feel that a network show does. Bisexuality is rarely explored on TV, and when it is, it's rarely done well, so hopefully this will be an improvement.