Two New Eco Series for Sundance Channel’s Green Block

NEW YORK, May 21: Sundance
Channel has added two British eco-reality series, Outrageous Wasters and the second season of It’s Not Easy Being
Green, to the lineup of its
environmental block, The Green.

Outrageous Wasters, a four-part series that follows a single family
through a crash course in living an eco-aware lifestyle, will debut July 1 at 9
p.m., while season two of It’s Not Easy Being Green, which features green experts traveling around the
British countryside to assist citizens in realizing their eco goals, premieres
July 29 at 9 p.m. These shows will be followed each week in The Green by an eco-related documentary film.

Also set to air in The
Green are Wetlands Preserved, Garbage Warrior, Genesis, The Greening of Southie,
The Unforeseen, In the Pit, Grass,
Ice Breaker, Everything’s
Cool, Somba Ke: The Money Place, Burning the Future: Coal in America and Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa. Sundance Channel’s original series Big Ideas
for a Small Planet continues every
Tuesday night at 9 p.m. through June 24.

"International
television networks have been ahead of the pack in creating upbeat and
entertaining green programming," commented Sundance Channel’s executive VP
and general manager of programming and creative affairs, Laura Michalchyshyn. "Sundance Channel's The Green block is the perfect place to showcase these
lively, fun and sometimes outrageous eco-reality shows from around the
globe."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski