Vice (TV series)
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Title card from seasons 1–3
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Created by | Shane Smith |
| Starring | Shane Smith |
| Theme music composer | Nick Zinner, Ben Vida & Hisham Bharoocha |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 54 + 4 specials (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Bill Maher Shane Smith Eddy Moretti BJ Levin Fareed Zakaria (consultant producer) |
| Running time | 27–43 mins. |
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| Release | |
| Original network | HBO |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | April 5, 2013 – present |
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| Website | |
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.
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.
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.
The show is executive produced by Bill Maher, Shane Smith, and Eddy Moretti and uses CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria as a consultant.
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