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    Director/Writer Spike Jonze To Oversee Development of Vice TV Channel

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    In this May 31, 2015 file photo, Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith attends the 74th Annual Peabody Awards in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

    Vice Media and A+E Networks team up for new channel which is expected to launch in early 2016

    By Frazier Moore, Television Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Vice Media and A+E Networks are joining forces for a cable channel to be programmed by Vice Media with lifestyle and documentary fare aimed at the 18-to-34 demographic.

    The channel, with the working title Viceland, is expected to launch early next year and will take over A+E's H2 channel. It will be available in about 70 million homes.

    In Tuesday's announcement, the partners said Viceland will feature hundreds of hours of new programming developed and produced entirely in-house by Vice by "the young creative minds" that are its "heart and soul."

    Shane Smith, Vice co-founder and CEO, called the network "the next step in the evolution of our brand and the first step in our global roll-out of networks around the world."

    Oscar-winning writer-director Spike Jonze, a Vice partner and creative director, is overseeing the development of the channel, including show creation, production and brand identity.

    "It feels like most channels are just a collection of shows," Jonze said. "We wanted Viceland to be different, to feel like everything on there has a reason to exist and a strong point of view."

    The initial slate of prime-time shows will include "Gaycation" (with Ellen Page and Ian Daniel), "Huang's World" (with Eddie Huang), "Noisey" (with Zach Goldbaum), "Vice World of Sports" (with Sal Masekela) and "Weediquette" (with Krishna Andavolu).

    The launch of Viceland on linear TV supplements Vice's continuing growth across online and mobile platforms, where its content includes a network of 10 digital verticals and a suite of YouTube channels.

    Meanwhile, since 2013 Vice has produced a weekly news magazine for HBO, which in March announced that Vice Media would also produce a daily Vice newscast for the pay-cable outlet. Vice also will produce 32 long-form specials for HBO over the next four years, the network has said.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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