Sundance To Inbound B-Ball Series

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Sundance has given the go-ahead to Nimrod Nation, an eight-part documentary series on high school basketball.

The show, produced by FremantleMedia and Weiden + Kennedy, looks at Watersmeet, Mich., and its obsession with hunting and the local basketball team, the Nimrods.

The series is from Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture) and Kevin Proudfoot from Weiden + Kennedy.

It is scheduled for a 2007 premiere.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.