THE HONORABLE WOMAN producer Greg Brenman talks the new miniseries

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/03/2014
Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in THE HONORABLE WOMAN | © 2014 Robert Viglasky/Sundance

In Sundance TV’s new eight-part miniseries THE HONORABLE WOMAN, Thursday nights at 10 PM, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the title character, Nessa Stein. Written and directed by Hugo Blick, the thriller shows us Nessa, the daughter of an Israeli arms dealer who is now a baroness, working on a deal to bring fiber optic cable from Israel to the West Bank. The project is not only fraught with its own ramifications, but it brings to light many secrets from the past. Greg Brenman is the executive producer, with the BBC’s Polly Hill, of THE HONORABLE WOMAN. His previous credits include the […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: Julianne Nicholson goes down THE RED ROAD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/20/2014
Julianne Nicholson in THE RED ROAD | ©2014 Sundance Channel/James Minchin

In Sundance TV’s limited series THE RED ROAD, Julianne Nicholson plays Jean Jensen. Jean is married to sheriff’s deputy Harold Jensen (Martin Henderson), is the mother of two daughters and lives in a small town in the Ramapo Mountains, where the citizenry coexist with the Native American tribe whose community is up the hill. Jean is so ashamed of her schizophrenia that she’s pretended to have a drinking problem, but her secret starts to come unraveled after she is involved in a hit-and-run. Her husband Harold winds up conspiring to cover up the incident with lately-returned ex-con and former high […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview with THE RED ROAD’s Tamara Tunie

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/06/2014
Tamara Tunie stars in THE RED ROAD | © 2014 Sundance Channel

In Sundance TV’s six-hour drama series THE RED ROAD, created by Aaron Guzikowski, Tamara Tunie plays Marie, a Native American living in a smallNew Jersey town in theRamapoMountains. Marie isn’t thrilled when her grown son Phillip Kopus (Jason Momoa) comes back from prison, even before he gets tangled up in dark doings involving his old schoolmate, sheriff’s deputy Harold Jensen (Martin Henderson) and Harold’s wife Jean (Julianne Nicholson). Marie is busy raising her adopted son Junior (Kiowa Gordon) and wants to keep him away from the kind of trouble that Kopus seems to attract, but that may not be possible. […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview with THE RED ROAD’s Aaron Guzikowski and Bridget Carpenter

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 02/27/2014
Jason Momoa stars in THE RED ROAD | © 2014 Sundance

In Sundance Channel’s new six-episode series THE RED ROAD, premiering Thursday Feb. 27 at 9 PM, a contemporary Native American tribe (fictional, albeit based on the Ramapaugh tribe) in the Ramapo Mountains on the New York/New Jersey border dwell in sometimes touchy but generally peaceful coexistence with the mostly white inhabitants of the town down the road. Détente is threatened by two events – Jean Jensen (played by Julianne Nicholson), wife of sheriff’s deputy Harold Jensen (played by Martin Henderson) is involved in an accident, and their former high-school classmate, the dangerous Phillip Kopus (Jason Momoa) returns to the area […]Read On »


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TV Review: THE RETURNED (LES REVENANTS) – Season 1 – “Camille” – Series Premiere

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 10/31/2013
Clotilde Hesme and Pierre Perrier in THE RETURNED (LES REVENANTS) - Season 1 | ©2013 The Sundance Channel/Jean Claude Lother

Stars: Anne Consigny, Frederic Pierrot, Clotilde Hesme, Celine Sallette, Samir Guesmi, Guillaume Gouix, Jean-Francois Sivadier, Alix Poisson, Jenna Thiam, Gregory Gadebois, Pierre Perrier, Yara Pilartz, Swann Nambotin, Ana Girardot, Brune Martin, Bernard Constant, Matila Mallia Writers: Emmanuel Carrere and Fabrice Gobert and Nicolas Peufallit Director: Fabrice Gobert Network: Sundance Channel, Thursdays @ 9 PM Original U.S. Airdate: October 31, 2013 THE RETURNED (LES REVENANTS) premiered last year on French television. Sundance Channel acquired the limited series forU.S. television, with the first of its eight episodes premiering on Halloween, Thursday at 9 PM. The opening episode, “Camille,” is unsettling rather than […]Read On »


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Exclusive Interview: RECTIFY creator Ray McKinnon on the Sundance Channel series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 04/22/2013
RECTIFY | ©2013 Sundance Channel

In RECTIFY, an original six-hour dramatic series produced by and for the Sundance Channel, with a two-hour premiere Monday at 9 PM, Aden Young plays Daniel Holden. At age nineteen, Daniel was convicted of raping and murdering his girlfriend. He has spent the last nineteen years on death row, but his conviction is set aside on a technicality. RECTIFY follows Daniel for the first six days as he re-enters the world and the small-town family he left. Ray McKinnon, creator and one of the executive producers of RECTIFY, has a prolific career as an actor, including arcs in DEADWOOD and […]Read On »


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Interview: TOP OF THE LAKE actors Elisabeth Moss & Holly Hunter and producer Iain Canning on the new Sundance Channel mini-series

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/19/2013
Elisabeth Moss in TOP OF THE LAKE | ©2013 Sundance Channel

TOP OF THE LAKE is a seven-hour miniseries about New Zealand police detective Robin Griffin, played by MAD MEN’s Elisabeth Moss, who finds herself dealing with her past as she investigates the disappearance of a pregnant twelve-year-old girl. Adding to the mystery is a women’s retreat, run by Holly Hunter’s character, the enigmatic G.J. Directed by Jane Campion, who previously helmed Hunter’s Oscar-winning performance in THE PIANO, and Garth Davis, and created and written by Campion and Gerard Lee, TOP OF THE LAKE debuts in a two-hour block on the Sundance Channel Monday at 9 PM, with the five subsequent […]Read On »


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