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Blackpills, a new streaming service, has acquired rights to Adaptive Studios' digital series Pineapple, which will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival with three short-form episodes from the series screening as part of the Midnight Episodic Showcase on Jan. 21.

Written, directed and edited by Arkasha Stevenson, Pineapple follows a miner's daughter who is assaulted in a local coal mine and the impact the event has on the small town in which she lives. The cast includes Tyler Vickers, Kel Owens, Ron Gilbert, Gloria Vonn, Lucille Sharp, and Brooklyn Robinson. The project was produced by Drew Diamond, Halee...

The Sundance Film Festival continues to embrace the diversity of great content being made today, with a full roster of special events programming that features established festival favorites like Jill Soloway, Rashida Jones and Gina Prince-Bythewood.

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Making its world premiere at the fest is “I Love Dick,” Soloway’s Amazon comedy featuring Kevin Bacon as the titular Dick, a “charismatic artist” who upends the marriage of Kathryn Hanh and Griffith Dunne. In addition, the Netflix documentary “Hot Girls Wanted” gets a sequel directed by Rashida Jones; “Turned On” explores “the intersection of sex and technology,” per the official release.

Broadcast networks find themselves surprisingly well-represented in the line-up, with the ABC comedy “Downward Dog” (featuring Allison Tolman as a young woman with a special relationship with her dog) as well as the Fox limited series “Shots Fired,...