Thanks to titles like Manchester by the Sea, Weiner, and Southside With You, 2016 was a great year for movies at the Sundance Film Festival. But it was arguably an even better year for TV, as such acclaimed series like Starz’s The Girlfriend Experience and Hulu’s 11.22.63 played to their first audiences in Park City, Utah. Sundance was also the launching pad for one of the year’s most celebrated works in either film or television: ESPN’s mammoth seven-hour docuseries, O.J.: Made in America, which made numerous year-end top 10 lists (including Ken Tucker’s of Yahoo TV) and is poised to earn an Oscar nod for Best Documentary Feature when nominations are announced on Jan. 24. “We opened our eyes to allow more television,” festival director John Cooper told Yahoo TV last year. “It’s been growing very organically. The creators lead, and we try to provide the best platform we can.”
That platform will continue to expand over the course of Sundance’s 2017 edition, which runs from Jan. 19-29. This year, the festival is hosting screenings for a pair of high-profile network TV shows, as well as an assortment of docuseries, Web series, and promising pilots looking for a channel and/or streaming service to call home. Here are the 12 TV projects to keep your eye on during and after Sundance.
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