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SundanceTV announced today that it has picked up the acclaimed modern day psychological thriller “Liar” for a second season. Golden Globe®-winner Joanne Froggatt (“Downton Abbey”) and BAFTA’s Sian Phillips Award recipient Ioan Gruffudd(Fantastic Four) will both return for season two of “Liar,” which will once again be written and executive produced by series creators Jack … Read more
Sundance has a new drama premiering tonight called LIAR. It’s actually a co-British program that is being aired here on Sundance at the same time it’s still running across the pond, albeit viewers in the UK are a few weeks ahead of us in the story. In LIAR, schoolteacher Laura Nielson accuses surgeon Andrew Earlham … Read more
Following its critically-acclaimed world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, SundanceTV will debut the highly-anticipated limited series “Top of the Lake: China Girl” as a three-night special event starting Sunday, September 10 and continuing Monday, September 11th and Tuesday, September 12th at 9p/8c each evening. The network will present two hours of the six-hour … Read more
CBC and SundanceTV Greenlight 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. Created by Robert C. Cooper (“Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency,” “Stargate SG-1,” “Stargate: Atlantis”), who will also serve as showrunner and executive producer, the … Read more
SundanceTV announced today the renewal of the network’s genre-bending original scripted anthology series “Hap and Leonard.” The darkly comic series set in the late 1980s is based on the celebrated book series of the same name by famed author Joe R. Lansdale, and follows two lifelong best friends, Hap Collins (James Purefoy), an East Texas … Read more
BBC AMERICA, AMC and SundanceTV announced today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour that they will present the highly anticipated premiere of BBCA’s Planet Earth II as a three-network simulcast event on Saturday, February 18 at 9/8c. The following five episodes of the season will appear on BBCA on Saturday nights following the premiere. Sarah Barnett, president … Read more
SundanceTV today announced the premiere dates for its spring 2017 programming slate. The network will continue to use Wednesdays at 10:00 PM ET / 9 C as the anchor for its original drama series premieres. “SundanceTV continues to distinguish itself as a home for unique and compelling stories from around the world,” said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV. “Our network has an exciting year ahead, starting with the return of our highest-rated original … Read more
SundanceTV today announced at the Television Critics’ Association (TCA) Press Tour that it has picked up the second season of “The A Word” from Keshet International, adding to the network’s 2017 programming slate. The Fifty Fathoms and Keshet UK co-production for BBC One bowed earlier in July to rave reviews. Dramatic, thought-provoking and lighthearted, “The … Read more
SundanceTV announced today the renewal of the network’s original scripted series “Hap and Leonard.” The darkly comic swamp noir story follows two lifelong best friends, Hap Collins (James Purefoy), an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine (Michael Kenneth Williams), a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper. … Read more
ABC TV and SundanceTV today announced that a second season of Cleverman, the epic genre drama, will go into production in Australia later this year. The recommission announcement comes just as Season One of the series launches internationally in the United States on SundanceTV on Wednesday, June 1 at 10/9c and in Australia on ABC … Read more
Sundance will be bringing us a British / French production this week entitled THE LAST PANTHERS. Set in several European countries, the six-episode series follows a jewel thief and those who would hunt him after the crime as he flees home to a dark underworld. Goran Bogdan (Number 55) plays Milan Celik, the lead character, … Read more
SundanceTV announced today that production has commenced on the fourth and final season of its original drama series “Rectify” today, Monday, April 11 in Griffin, GA. The hour-long episodic drama was created and written by Academy Award(R) winner Ray McKinnon (The Accountant) and is executive produced by McKinnon, Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein, the award-winning … Read more
SundanceTV today announced it has acquired the first two seasons of acclaimed Italian crime drama “Gomorrah” from The Weinstein Company (TWC). Called “Italy’s Answer to ‘Breaking Bad’” by Sight and Sound Magazine, Gomorrah’s first season, comprised of 12 episodes, will premiere on SundanceTV in summer 2016. “Gomorrah,” Italy’s all-time most popular television series, is based … Read more
Leading into the exciting second season of the International Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning series “The Returned,” SundanceTV has released the full-length trailer, revealing “Not everyone deserves a second chance.” The highly anticipated season two of the French psychological thriller will make its debut on Saturday, October 31, at 10 PM ET/PT. [springboard type=”video” id=”1566663″ player=”s42f004″ width=”600″ height=”324″ ] … Read more