Election-Themed Programming Set for Sundance Channel

NEW YORK, August 25: Sundance Channel will broadcast
election-themed programming with a special DOCDAY slate on Monday nights during
the final five weeks of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.

The DOCDAY schedule kicks off October 6 at 9 p.m. with the
U.S. television premiere of Mary Lambert’s 14 Women, which profiles the 14 women who served in the U.S.
Senate from 2004 to 2006. Narrated by Academy Award-nominee Annette Bening, the
film offers a look at a diverse group of women, who represent a spectrum of
political ideologies.

The network will then feature every Monday until November 3
documentaries and original series about the people who seek public office in
the U.S. The lineup includes the U.S. television premieres of Chris Hegedus and
D.A. Pennebaker’s The Return of the War Room, a Sundance Channel original production, and Vanessa Roth’s The
Third Monday in October. Rounding out the
election-oriented documentary programming are James Rogan’s Blog
Wars, R.J. Cutler and David Van Taylor’s A
Perfect Candidate, Charles Ferguson's No
End in Sight, Robert Drew's Primary, Sarah and Emily Kunstler’s short Getting
Through to the President and the Sundance
Channel original series The Hill.

—By Jackie Stewart