Trouble the Water, a gritty documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, was amazing enough to win the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival, but, oddly enough, isn't amazing enough to get picked up for distribution. Why? The rumor is that the film is just "too black." Execs are nervous that there aren't more white people in the movie, which was called "one of the best American documentaries in recent memory" in the New York Times. According to Defamer, this isn't the first time a Sundance winner has had trouble getting distribution because it was deemed too ethnic. Last year's Padre Nostre was considered by industry honchos to be "too Mexican" for mainstream distribution. Meanwhile, there continues to be no such thing as "too white."

The television movie based on Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, attracted 12 million viewers when it aired on ABC Monday, giving the network its best Monday numbers since November. The Kenny Leon-directed telefilm was the first of its kind to screen at the Sundance Film Festival, and starred, as I'm sure you are more than aware, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, Sanaa Lathan, and Mr. Sean "Diddy" Combs. I confess it's on my DVR, but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. If you saw it, what did you think?