By Lynn Elber

LOS ANGELES — Bertha Hofer deserves to be one of the summer’s biggest, if unlikeliest, TV stars.

In the narrowest sense, she’s yet another working mom opening up her life to the camera. But Hofer is part of an unusual and intriguing world, a small Montana religious commune depicted in National Geographic Channel’s “American Colony: Meet the Hutterites.”

By Lifetime

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By NatGeo

Exclusive first look at our show - American Colony: Meet the Hutterites

By NatGeo

Exclusive first look at our show - American Colony: Meet the Hutterites

By NBC

The ultimate head nod. A mention from both 30 Rock and Community. Awesome!

By Michael Starr

Get ready for a very personal look at a community you’ve never seen before on TV — or anywhere else, for that matter.

National Geographic Channel’s “American Colony: Meet the Hutterites,” a 10-episode docu-series premiering this Tuesday (10 p.m.), goes inside King Colony, a 59-person Hutterite community in Montana that’s let cameras into its world for the first time.