Sundance Channel Unveils Non-Fiction Development Slate

Sundance Channel has unveiled its 2012-2013 non-fiction original development slate, which includes the five series projects Dream School, Dead & Found, Kenya & Carl, The Trouble with Love and Sex and Wino. Additionally, the channel has announced that it has renewed the original series The Mortified Sessions for a second season.

Details about the series in development for 2012 - 20103 are as follows:

Dream School

Imagine a school where your favorite rock-star is the music teacher, P.E. is run by an Olympian, and the science professor has a Nobel prize. A place where celebrities with a passion to give something back, strive to transform the children our education system has failed. Welcome to Dream School – an ambitious social experiment where the best and the brightest in our culture teach kids that have been falling through cracks in the system. Based on the UK phenomenon, Executive Produced by Jamie Oliver and Fresh One, “Dream School” reinvents education to rekindle a generation’s love for learning. Produced by Fresh One.

Dead & Found

How do you piece together the story of a life that has left very few clues? This dramatic non-fiction series follows a team of government investigators in Reno who seek to decode the lives behind unidentified dead bodies. Nevada has the highest number of unidentified corpses in the country, and with only one week to locate the next of kin, every case is an unexpected journey of discovery as the team reconstructs a life. And whether the victims’ families react with shock, sadness or apathy, the circumstances of death are always a surprising window into the dramas of life. Produced by This is Just a Test.

Kenya & Carl

Explore the often misunderstood world of open marriages through an unusual team of marriage counselors. Husband and wife team, Kenya and Carl, are out to prove that partners can be open and honest with each other in every way. When over half of all marriages end in divorce, Kenya and Carl offer a radical reinvention of the nuclear family. Produced by GRB.

The Trouble with Love and Sex

Who knows the truth that lies behind the façade of any relationship? Often, the therapist does. The sometimes shocking truths that come out in therapy are born out of our innermost compulsions, fears, and bizarre fantasies. This revealing series takes actual recordings from couples therapy sessions and brings them vividly to life as animated stories. Dare to stare as relationship troubles and shocking confessions unfold. Be a fly on the wall to hear if America thinks love and sex are worth the anguish or just plain trouble. Produced by BBC Worldwide.