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Sundance Channel Documentary Series to Feature Watersmeet Nimrods

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Sundance Channel founder Robert Redford announced Thursday the production of an eight-part documentary series celebrating a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and its high school basketball team. "Nimrod Nation," is scheduled to air on the cable channel in 2007 and will be set in Watersmeet (located on the Wisconsin-Michigan border). The tiny town and the gung-ho fans of the Watersmeet Nimrods have gained national attention through a series of commercials for ESPN.

Read Small screen finds U.P. fever: Nimrods go from TV ads to series in the JS Online
Also see MICK MCCABE: Life according to the Nimrods in the Detroit Free Press
See the Watersmeet Nimrod TV ads from ESPN's Without Sports (click on far right photo)
Read Michigan school has sold $35,000 of gear from ESPN
What is a Nimrod? from Watersmeet Township School District

Posted/updated Jan 13, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)