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Comedy

Isabella Rossellini creates “Mammas” for Sundance Channel

Mammas Sunday, May 12 Sundance Channel, 5:30pm ET Usually when someone I’m interviewing excuses themselves for a minute, it can really interrupt the flow of the conversation. That extra time it takes to get back on track could lead to me missing out on some great nugget they were about to throw my way. But when it’s Isabella Rossellini, and you overhear her speaking beautiful Italian to her son, it’s just a pleasure to sit and listen. I called the actress to learn more about her new series of short films, Mammas, premiering on Sundance Channel on Mother’s Day. It […]

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Drama

“Rectify”: Sundance Channel drama shows exonerated convict’s struggle with freedom

Rectify Monday, April 22 Sundance Channel, special 2-hour premiere 9pm ET, regular time slot 10pm ET The story pops up on the news with disturbing regularity: A wrongly convicted man is finally released after spending decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The viewers see the happy family reunited, and vicariously thrill to the thought of what he will do with his newfound freedom. But the aftermath is far more complicated than that. How does a person adjust to life in a world he hasn’t seen for nearly 20 years, over half his lifetime? Will society ever let […]

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Drama

Top of the Lake: Elisabeth Moss, Holly Hunter and an international cast stun in Sundance Channel’s Jane Campion mini

Channel Guide recently sat down with cast-members Elisabeth Moss and Holly Hunter, and co-executive producer Iain Canning, to discuss Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s engrossing seven-part miniseries for Sundance Channel, which premieres March 18 at 9pm ET/PT. Twelve-year-old Tui Mitcham has a secret. Truth is, the girl seems made up entirely of the collective secrets of Laketop, the squalid New Zealand town where she lives with her charismatic thug of a father and grown half-brothers who haven’t fallen far from their patriarchal tree. After her failed suicidal march into the neighboring lake reveals that this child is with child, Tui […]

Documentary

As real as it gets – Sundance Channel’s “Push Girls” – Angela Rockwood, Auti Angel, Tiphany Adams, Mia Schaikewitz

Beautiful, smart, opinionated and … paralyzed? It’s certainly not your typical docuseries cast, but that’s what caught the attention of Sundance Channel as it looks to shatter stereotypes by documenting the lives of four dynamic women — Angela Rockwood, Auti Angel, Tiphany Adams and Mia Schaikewitz — in its new series Push Girls, which debuts Monday, June 4 at 10pmET/PT. Unfiltered and very, very personal, the series follows four confident and inspiring Los Angeles women who are paralyzed from either the waist or neck down. The series is the brainchild of one of its stars — Angela Rockwood — a model […]

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Documentary

“Push Girls” sneak preview part of SADD, Sundance, Seventeen campaign

TV doesn’t frequently inspire. Tonight it does with the sneak preview of Sundance Channel’s docu-series Push Girls (airing at 10pm ET/PT). Unfiltered and very, very personal, Push Girls follows four confident and inspiring Los Angeles women who are paralyzed from either the waist or neck down. The sneak preview is part of a pro-social campaign geared at raising awareness about the dual dangers of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol or riding with someone who is. Sundance Channel, Seventeen magazine and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) have partnered together for this. The campaign includes an online pledge, live […]

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Documentary

David Nadelberg’s “The Mortified Sessions” hits Sundance Channel

By Karl J. Paloucek Imagine digging through the old boxes in your closet and finding, amid the clutter, your third-grade journal. The one in which you wrote about all of that important stuff — about the kid who flicked a booger at the teacher when she wasn’t looking, or all of the mushy stuff you wanted to say to that quiet boy or girl in the corner, but never did. Now imagine taking that journal and reading it aloud, as an adult, onstage in front of an audience of strangers. That’s the sort of thing that David Nadelberg has been […]

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Interview

“Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys” stars Kristin Sabata and Peter Depp talk Season 2 of the Sundance hit

By Lori Acken Follow @ChannelGuideLLA She’s a pretty, soft-spoken school psychologist and Army wife. He’s a ruggedly handsome divorced dad of three — and one of Tennessee’s top comics. And like plenty of men and women, their years-long friendship began when Peter Depp and Kristin Sabata went on a date and realized they were better off as friends. In fact, fabulous as friends. The best. And their bond only deepened when Peter finally felt free to come out of the closet as a gay man — and when Kristin fell in love with and married a soldier who has spent […]

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Reality TV

TCA: What did Chef Ludo (Ludo Bites America) serve TV critics?

By Barb Oates Follow @ChannelGuide The creator of L.A.’s legendary pop-up restaurant LudoBites – Ludo Lefebrve, known as a renegade five-star French chef, treated critics to an exclusive pop up dinner at Mel’s Drive-In last night. The diner was closed to the public when shuttle buses transporting TV critics descended on the West Hollywood locale. Ludo never left the kitchen serving up a delightful five-course meal you’d never be able to dream up. He did take a two-minute break to thank his wife Krissy and plug his show Ludo Bites America, which airs on Sundance Channel Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT. […]

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Comedy

“Green Porno” Is Back On Sundance Channel

by Karl J. Paloucek Tomorrow, one of television’s more bizarre series starts up again — Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno on Sundance Channel enters Season 2. If you don’t recall, Season 1 had Rossellini presenting herself in various amusing costumes emulating the peculiar mating habits of various insects, arachnoids and annelids. This time, she’s taking things underwater, exploring reproduction of whales, starfish, anglerfish and others. Each episode lasts only a couple of minutes at best, but in those precious seconds, Rossellini does her best to succeed where biology class might have failed you. She’s not afraid to look utterly silly, and […]

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TV News & Program Updates

Tube Talk: Elvis Costello Is Coming To Sundance Channel

Everyone’s favorite bespectacled New Wave icon (sorry, Marshall Crenshaw) is headed to Sundance Channel, where he’ll host the appropriately titled series Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… beginning in December. The 13-week series will feature discussion and performances, and will be executive produced by Elton John, who will also make at least one onscreen appearance. “This is a wonderful opportunity to talk in complete thought about music, movies, art or even vaudeville, then frame it with unique and illustrative performances,” Costello said in a statement.