SundanceTV continues its acquisition of quality scripted dramas with Babylon (Thursdays, 10/9C) – a workplace drama set in London’s Scotland Yard. Created by Danny Boyle and starring Brit Marlin and James Nesbitt, it deals with the pressures of police work at all levels – culminating in the top job – and the struggle to maintain […]
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INCONCEIVABLE! The Princess Bride Marathon on SundanceTV
SundanceTV is preparing for an inconceivably merry Christmas with “As You Wish: The Princess Bride Marathon,” hosted by the film’s star, Cary Elwes. The marathon will begin airings of The Princess Bride on Thursday, December 25 at 1:00pm ET/PT and will end on Friday, December 26 at 2:00am ET/PT. Throughout the day, Elwes will share his […]
Joe R. Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard Come To SundanceTV!
SundanceTV continues to expand into scripted television by greenlighting a new mystery series, Hap and Leonard – based on Joe R. Lansdale’s bestselling series of books. The series will feature the titular pair of best friends – Hap Collins and Leonard Pine – and martial artists who struggle to stay on the right side of the law […]
Production Begins on Season Two of Sundance TV’s Red Road!
Season Two of SundanceTV’s critically-acclaimed series, Red Road began today in Atlanta. The series, which dramatizes class and racial struggles in a small town and the neighboring mountains, has added Wes Studi (Road to Paloma, Kings, Hell on Wheels) to its large, diverse cast. Season Two will premiere in mid-2015. For further details, follow the jump.
SundanceTV Orders Third Season of Rectify!
SundanceTV’s Rectify has been given an order for a third season to premiere in 2015. The show, about a man freed from prison after two decades on death row, has become a critical darling and built a solid fanbase. Rectify’s second season finale airs on Thursday, August 21st. For further details, follow the jump.
Sundance TV’s The Approval Matrix Examines The Best and Worst In Pop Culture!
SundanceTV continues it roll out of original programming with The Approval Matrix a six-week non-fiction series which looks at ‘the brilliant and the despicable’ in the previous week’s pop culture events. Hosted by comedian Neal Brennan, The Approval Matrix is inspired by the pop culture roundup of the same name in New York Magazine and […]
SundanceTV’s The Red Road Gets Season Two!
The Red Road – SundanceTV’s second scripted drama series – may have started out with more potential than anything else, but it found its feet and became a very good show. Now it has been given a second six-episode season and, as someone who was on the fence about the show after its premiere, I’m […]
SundanceTV’s Rectify Returns In June!
SundanceTV’s critically acclaimed Rectify (#4 on my 2013 best off list), returns on June 19th (9/8C). Season one followed Daniel Holden after his release from death role into a world he found almost utterly alien and trying to find his place in it. Season two finds Daniel Holden beginning to think about the future and […]
The Red Road – Better Than Average with Hints of Brilliance!
The Red Road (Thursdays, 9/8C) is the second original scripted drama from Sundance TV (formerly Sundance Channel) and it is as ambitiously broad in scope as Rectify is in its intimacy. The series boils the travails of a well-to-do small town and a federally unrecognized tribe of Native Americans down to the efforts of the […]