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Production Begins on Season Three of Hap and Leonard!

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Michael K Williams as Leonard Pine , James Purefoy as Hap Collins – Hap and Leonard – Photo Credit: James Minchin/SundanceTV.

SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard has begun production on its third season – which will be based on the Joe. R. Lansdale novel, The Two Bear Mambo.

In season three, when Florida Grange goes missing in the Klan-infested town of Grovetown, Hap and Leonard set out to find her.

Louis Gossett Jr., Corbin Bernsen and Andrew Dice Clay will be recurring guest stars this season.

Hap and Earl: The Two-Bear Mambo is slated to return in early 2018.

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SundanceTV’s Deutschland86 Begins Production in South Africa and Berlin

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Deutschland86: Season 2 – Aunt Lenora (Maria Schrader) and Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) – Photo courtesy of SundanceTV.

The sequel to Deutchsland83, Deutschland86, has begun production – shooting in South Africa and Berlin.

The second season picks up three years later with Martin Rauch, his Aunt Lenora and their colleagues at the East German foreign intelligence agency (HVA) abandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash.

A premiere date is TBD.

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Top of the Lake: China Girl Debuts As Three-Night Event In September!

Elisabeth Moss as Detective Robin Griffin – Top Of The Lake: China Girl _ Season 2, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: See-Saw Films/SundanceTV

In Top of the Lake: China Girl we see Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realizes China Girl didn’t die alone.

Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: China Girl is set to premiere as a three-night event on SundanceTV, from Sunday, September 10th through Tuesday, September 12th (9/8C all three nights).

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AMC and Canada’s CBC Partner on Tainted Blood Miniseries Unspeakable!

CBC and SundanceTV have greenlit a new eight-part drama miniseries “Unspeakable,” focused on the tainted blood scandal in Canada in the early 1980s.

Based on first-person experience and two non-fiction books, Bad Blood by Vic Parsons and The Gift of Death by Andre Picard, “Unspeakable” chronicles the emergence of HIV and Hepatitis C in Canada in the early 1980s and the tragedy that resulted after thousands of people were unnecessarily infected by tainted blood.

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Cleverman Remains Clever and Original In Its Second Season Premiere!

Koen (Hunter Page-Lochard) and Waruu (Rob Collins) – Cleverman  – Season2 – Photo Credit: Lisa Tomasetti/SundanceTV/GPTV/Zone140

The second season premiere gets off to a rocky start – the corpse of newly discovered Cleverman Koen West being zipped up in a body bag.

Meanwhile, a convoy transporting Sub-Humans as the powers that be call them (in spite of their being neither) is attacked by a single warrior – who sets them free.

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Dangerous Relationships Trailer: Top of the Lake: China Girl!

Top of the Lake: China Girl – Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) – Photo courtesy of SundanceTV.

Detective Robin Griffin has returned to Sydney and things are beginning to feel normal again when a young Asian girl washes up on Bondi beach.

Top of the Lake: China Girl will premiere in September on SundanceTV.

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Suitcase on the Beach Trailer: Top of the Lake: China Girl!

Elisabeth Moss returns as Detective Robin Griffin in SundanceTV’s Top of the Lake: China Girl. Photo courtesy of SundanceTV.

After the events of Top of the Lake, Detective Robin Griffin returns to Sydney to try to rebuild her life.

The the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach. The case gets a break when Detective Griffin learns that she didn’t die alone.

Top of the Lake: China Girl premieres on SundanceTV in September.

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Who Needs Brunch? SundanceTV Announces The Ultimate Mother’s Day Marathon!

This Mother’s Day SundanceTV is giving Sunday Brunch a run for its money with The Ultimate Mother’s Day Marathon.

The Ultimate Mother’s Day Marathon opens with back-to-back episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show before seguing into four movies: Stepmom, Monster-In-Law, Sweet Home Alabama and Silver Linings Playbook.

The Ultimate Mother’s Day Marathon begins at 6am/5C, Sunday, May 14th.

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Hap and Leonard Renewed for The Two-Bear Mambo!

Michael K Williams as Leonard Pine , James Purefoy as Hap Collins – Hap and Leonard – Photo by James Minchin/SundanceTV.

SundanceTV’s Hap and Leonard has been renewed for a third season – subtitled The Two-Bear Mambo (inspired by the novel of the same name by Joe R. Lansdale).

Hap and Leonard will return in 2018.

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SundanceTV Sets Two-Hour Premiere for Gommorah: Season Two!

Marco D’Amore as Ciro Di Marzio, Marco Palvetti as Salvatore Conte – Gommorah _ Season 2, Episode 1 – Photo Credit: Emanuela Scarpa/Sundance TV

Season two of the acclaimed Italian crime drama Gomorrah will have a two-hour premiere on Wednesday, April 26th.

In the first two episodes, “United States of Secondigliano/Exile” Ciro and Genny organize a meeting on neutral ground in Montenegro. Although the Savastano clan continues to stay divided, Ciro knows better than to underestimate them. Genny’s old men organize a robbery, but when things go south, he is forced to sacrifice a portion of the Savastano turf and break his father’s trust.

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SundanceTV’s The A Word: Season Two Begins Production!

The A Word: Season Two – (L-R): Christopher Eccleston, Mollie Wright, Max Vento, Morven Christie, and Lee Ingleby – Photo courtesy of SundanceTV

Production has begun on Season Two of SundanceTV’s The A Word – the series about a family dealing with the discovery that youngest son Joe (Max Vento) is autistic – and how it affects everyone in the family.

The story picks up two years from the end of season one, and Joe (Max Vento) is changing. Now age seven, he has begun to look at the world and find he doesn’t always fit in.

A premiere date for The A Word is TBD.

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