Would you consider swapping partners with another couple to spice up your relationship? This is what good friends get up to in the scandalous 'Swingtown' on M-Net Series.

'Swingtown' started on M-Net Series two weeks ago (Wednesday, 27 August a 10pm) and it's so sexily scandalous I'm finished for it.

Set in 1970's America — during the rise of women's lib and the sexual revolution — the show's about ordinary couple Bruce and Susan.

They hit some new money on the stock market, move to a more upmarket neighbourhood and get super-friendly with their new neighbours: air pilot Tom and his wife Trina.

Their first encounter with them happens shortly after Bruce and Susan move into their new house — they go over to a party at Tom and Trina's, it turns orgy and next thing B. and S. end up shagging T &T as a foursome. All in the first episode.

Also very important in the set-up are Bruce and Susan's kids Laurie and BJ, as well as the couple's old friends Janet and Roger who've stayed behind in their old neighbourhood and feel they've been replaced.

The brilliant thing is that the show challenges everything you thought you thought — it really makes you question how you feel about sex and swinging.

The series creator Mike Kelley (a writer on 'The OC' and 'Providence') has claimed that he wrote the show based on his observations of his parents and their swinging during the '70s, which gives it added clout, knowing it's all fully for real — all made more absorbing by the surreal '70s styling.

The season has 13 episodes in total and reaches a semi-conclusion. But unfortunately the future of the show doesn't look too promising — it's on CBS in the US which is a public broadcaster and it's had too many parental boards complaining about it. I'm hoping it gets picked up by a channel like Showtime or HBO so we can see more.

All in all I'd highly recommend you catch up with it if you haven't been watching and see what it makes you think...

...You'll never look at your neighbours the same way again.

Would you? Could you...?