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Article: Net nabs edgy auds.(Sundance Channel L.L.C.)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- January 19, 2006
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Living on the edge is never easy, but execs at Sundance Channel have concluded that it beats the alternatives when you face bigger competitors that can outspend and outdistribute you.
Shy away from challenging, mind-bending subjects? Not Sundance, which recently aired "TransGeneration," an eight-part documentary snapshot of college kids struggling with changing their sexual identities.
Bank heavily on a dose of foreign and foreign-language films and series that can work better than wolfsbane at repelling middlebrow viewers? Yup. The network has one of the heaviest international programming complements of any channel.
And no worries if you are a ...