Sundance Film Festival 2005
ALAN CUMMING, BOB ODENKIRK AND WHITNEY CUMMINGS TO JOIN JAY MOHR ON SUNDANCE CHANNEL "FESTIVAL DAILIES"
REPORTING DAILY FROM 2005 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL JANUARY 24-29 AT 9PM

New York, NY, December XX, 2004 - Alan Cumming (The Anniversary Party), Bob Odenkirk ("Mr. Show") and Whitney Cummings ("Punk'd") have signed on to join Jay Mohr ("Last Comic Standing") in covering the 2005 Sundance Film Festival on Sundance Channel's "Festival Dailies," a daily program produced onsite at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. "Festival Dailies" will report on the films and filmmakers of this year's Sundance Film Festival, providing TV viewers with an immediate sense of the Sundance Film Festival experience. From January 24-28 at 9:00pm, "Festival Dailies" airs as a half-hour program; on January 29th at 9:00pm "Festival Dailies" will be an hour wrap-up episode.

Mohr will serve as host of the show, conduct a series of round table discussions called "We're Talking Here," as well as report from the streets of Park City. Alan Cumming will conduct "Peer to Peer" interviews with actors and directors who have films screening at the Sundance Film Festival. Odenkirk will perform man-on-the-street segments for the program. Whitney Cummings will report on the activities at the festival. "Festival Dailies" is produced by Robert Katz and Jerry Kupfer. Adam Pincus is Executive Producer and Anne Mullen is Supervising Producer. Jay Mohr has a long list of television and film credits, including "Saturday Night Live" (1993-1995), and Jerry Maguire. Mohr is also the creator, producer and host of "Last Comic Standing," for which he was nominated for a 2004 Emmy®.

Alan Cumming is an acclaimed film, television, and theatre actor, and has played a variety of roles, including the Spy Kids and XMen films, TNT's "The Goodbye Girl," and as the role of the Emcee in "Cabaret" on Broadway from 1993-94 and 1998-99. Cumming co-wrote, directed and starred in (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) The Anniversary Party. Cumming can be also be seen in the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Film Reefer Madness.

Bob Odenkirk was the Executive Producer and star of the television series "Mr. Show" and wrote and co-starred in the "Mr. Show" Movie Run Ronnie Run! He has won Emmy Awards® for his writing on "Saturday Night Live" and "The Ben Stiller Show" and is currently the host of Sundance Channel's Friday night movie series "Midnight Snack."

Whitney Cummings is a series regular on the weekly hit show for VH1 "Best Week Ever". Cummings also played a Field Agent for MTV's "Punk'd," and was a participant in E!'s "50 Most Outrageous TV Moments" and "101 Most Awesome Moments in Entertainment," as well as the "2004 MTV Movie Awards."

In addition to "Festival Dailies," all of Sundance Channel's January programming - including narrative features, documentaries, short films and original series - is devoted to films that have screened at past Sundance Film Festivals.

~January 2005

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