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Genre
  
Documentary

Starring
  
Shane Smith

Original language(s)
  
English

Program creator
  
Shane Smith

8.9/10
IMDb

67%
Rotten Tomatoes

Created by
  
Shane Smith

Country of origin
  
United States

First episode date
  
5 April 2013

Production company
  
Vice Media

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Theme music composer
  
Nick Zinner, Ben Vida & Hisham Bharoocha

Awards
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series Or Special

Executive producers
  
Bill Maher, Shane Smith, Eddy Moretti, Bradley J. Levin, Fareed Zakaria

Similar
  
The Vice Guide to Travel, Vice Principals, Years of Living Dangerously, Frontline, America Undercover

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Vice (stylised as VICE) is a documentary TV series created and hosted by Shane Smith of Vice magazine. Produced by Bill Maher, it uses CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria as a consultant, and covers topics using an immersionist style of documentary filmmaking. It premiered April 5, 2013, on HBO. The show's second season aired in 2014 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special.

Contents

On May 7, 2014, HBO renewed the show for two more seasons. The 14-episode third season began March 6, 2015, one week after the hour-long "Killing Cancer" aired on February 27. Vice's fourth season aired in 2016. On March 25, 2015, HBO announced Vice's renewal through Season 7 with a 30-episode fifth season slated to air on February 24, 2017.

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Synopsis

It follows Vice journalists and founders Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi, and segment hosts Ryan Duffy and Thomas Morton as they go to different parts of the world interviewing people on political and cultural topics. Subjects include political assassinations, young weapons manufacturers, child suicide bombers, Indian and Pakistani border politics, the Chinese one-child policy, climate change, and bonded laborers in Pakistan's brick kilns, featuring the work of human and labor rights activist Syeda Ghulam Fatima.

Correspondents, crew

  • Shane Smith – Vice Founder & CEO, Executive Producer
  • Suroosh Alvi – Vice Co-Founder, Correspondent
  • Thomas Morton – Correspondent
  • Ben Anderson – Correspondent and Senior Producer
  • Vikram Gandhi – Correspondent and Producer
  • Isobel Yeung – Correspondent and Producer
  • Gianna Toboni – Correspondent and Producer
  • Hamilton Morris – Correspondent
  • Kaj Larsen – Correspondent
  • Ahmed Shihab-Eldin – Correspondent
  • Bill Maher – Executive Producer
  • Eddy Moretti – Executive Producer
  • Fareed Zakaria – Consulting Producer
  • BJ Levin – Co-Executive Producer
  • Eric Weinrib – Producer

    • Production

    The show is executive produced by Bill Maher, Shane Smith, and Eddy Moretti and uses CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria as a consultant.

    Release and reception

    The first episode aired on HBO on April 5, 2013, and was available for free via YouTube. The series is the first televised program for VICE, featuring Vice staff as correspondents.

    The show has received both positive and negative reviews because of its unique, provocative presentation and style. Some compare it to a gonzo type of journalism. Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post wrote a negative review of the show, due to its presentation. Rolling Stone magazine have written that: "It feels a little like your buddy from the bar just happened to be wandering through eastern Afghanistan with a camera crew." In June 2013, the show was covered extensively in mainstream media for documenting a basketball game with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

    Vice News Tonight

    A nightly spin-off called Vice News Tonight premiered on HBO on October 10, 2016.

    References

    Vice (TV series) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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