The shows you watch as a kid—whether they be Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, or Reading Rainbow—can often shape and inform the kind of person you grow up to be. But what about the people who help create these shows? Do the lessons they impart week-to-week end up influencing their outlook on life? What kind of people do…
Following an in-depth and damning report on its toxic workplace, Vice has suspended two of its chief executives, including president Andrew Creighton.
The New York Times released the latest in an ongoing series of reports about sexual harassment in the American media today, this time targeting the culture at punk-rock news outlet turned Disney-partnering production giant Vice. The profile—which involved interviews with more than 100 Vice employees, past and…
Rick And Morty is a show that revels in its pop culture references. Despite taking place in a multiverse where any insane sci-fi adventure can happen, it’s a show that refuses to pretend other TV shows and movies don’t exist or that the audience isn’t hyper-aware of them at all times. In what’s become a staple of Dan…
This past weekend, a group of “slack-jawed, potato-faced” neo-nazis marched through the University Of Virginia with tiki torches. They were ostensibly there to protest Charlottesville’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, but as this new documentary from Vice shows, it was more of a means to prove that the…
Vice’s Motherboard site has retracted two stories about supposed drama brewing between Disney and Donald Trump over his appearance in the company’s Hall Of Presidents attraction. According to an editorial post on the site, the two articles—“Here’s the Secret Backstage Trump Drama at Walt Disney World’s Hall of…
In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends the previous week’s best episodes. Have your own favorite? Let us know in the comments or at podmass@avclub.com.
In Podmass, The A.V. Club sifts through the ever-expanding world of podcasts and recommends the previous week’s best episodes. Have your own favorite? Let us know in the comments or at podmass@avclub.com.
Deadline reports that frequently photographed person and actually really good dance-popper Sky Ferreira has joined Lords Of Chaos, an adaptation of Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind’s non-fiction account of Norway’s early ‘90s black metal scene, co-produced by Vice films. The project, which was initially announced…
Yeah, yeah, Vice sucks and only hipster doofuses like their TV channel. But, should you decide to try hipster doofus-dom on for a day and watch something on Viceland, might I suggest its (ostensibly) fashion-themed documentary show, States Of Undress? Hosted by model turned actress Hailey Gates—who, coincidentally,…
What goes on behind the scenes when you’re creating some of the most distinct pieces of cinema in the past 30 years? What drives people to decide to mount a film production without any formal training or, in some cases, good taste? A new series from Vice explores the stories and psychology of the creators of some of…
“Everyone was waiting for you to come out,” a fan tells Ellen Page in the finale of Viceland’s Gaycation. Page and her best friend and Gaycation travel companion Ian Daniel are at New York City’s pride parade, days after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of marriage equality. “Myself as well,” Page replies with…
Maybe Vice did it to score a few more points with the Peabody committee before going buckwild with homemade fusion bombs later this year, but there’s noticeable maturation in its fourth special episode devoted to a single feature topic. This time, it’s an overview of the key decisions and oversights made by the U.S.…
Most TV networks don’t really have the cred to justify a dramatic nine-minute trailer promoting their new shows, but Viceland isn’t like most networks. It’s the new channel from Vice that’s replacing H2, and much like Vice’s website, it looks like the network is going to be all about hard-hitting investigations into…
AOL, Angelfire, floppy disk. Vice’s new article on the “intense, competitive world of AOL disc collecting” is full of anachronistic references that make a Baby-G watch seem modern by comparison. Remember AOL discs? They came in a variety of colors, could be shrink-wrapped or encased in plastic, and promised users…
When Vice Media launched its HBO newsmagazine series in 2013, it was received with a fair amount of skepticism by media elites. In The New York Times, Mike Hale memorably summed up the first episode as “journalism at the intersection of shallow and gullible, where they meet, high-five, and compare tattoos.” His…
Mr. Robot isn’t the only show with an unfortunate combination of social relevance and bad timing: Variety reports that IFC’s Documentary Now! is rescheduling an episode that was supposed to air tonight in the wake of the shooting deaths of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward on live TV yesterday morning.…
Fresh off his appearance on WTF With Marc Maron, President Obama is getting into bed with Vice. The commander-in-chief will make the first-ever presidential visit to a prison as part of a Vice special for HBO. The visit to Oklahoma’s El Reno federal prison will happen next week, and will be hosted by Vice …
Pussy Riot frontwoman Nadya Tolokonnikova is writing a bi-weekly column for Vice.com, “The Pussy Riot Column,” that will chronicle the “various injustices occurring in present-day Russia that aren’t covered by state-run media,” according to a press release. “We hope that in this very difficult time for activism, art…
Raising suspicions that maybe Vice Media’s Shane Smith is a supervillain who will reveal his sinister agenda only after he runs every media outlet on Earth, Variety reports that A&E is officially rebranding its H2 channel as Vice. The news comes after A&E bought a 10 percent stake in the company for $250 million, a…