HBO Canada, a multiplex channel of Astral’s The Movie Network(Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada) is giving Canadians a chance to sample HBO’s new buzzed-about half-hour newsmagazine series VICE free-of-charge. The premiere episode, which debuted on Friday, April 5, is now available at http://www.hbocanada.com/vice/episodeone.php, and will also be available for free via the On Demand and Online services of participating television providers, and on TMN GO.
VICE is hosted by Ottawa-born Shane Smith, founder of the new media company of the same name, and is executive produced by Bill Maher, Smith and Eddy Moretti, VICE’s chief creative officer. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria serves as a consultant on the series. The series is co-hosted by two VICE correspondents – former intern Ryan Duffy and “Dos & Don’ts” book editor Thomas “Baby Balls” Morton – and promises to smash barriers of decorum to cover stories such as out-of-control political assassinations in the Philippines, the sumo/Mixed Martial Arts craze that has swept Senegal, and the precarious nuclear stare-down in Kashmir. New episodes of VICE premiere Friday nights at 11 p.m. ET/MT on HBO Canada following Real Time with Bill Maher.
The first episode of VICE takes viewers inside the Philippines to an underground factory where illicit weapons are made to the villages full of young men who can’t wait to get their hands on them, and into Afghanistan to follow senior members of the Taliban and the children and teenagers they are now manipulating into carrying out their suicide bombings.
HBO Canada is a multiplex channel offered by Astral’s The Movie Network (Eastern Canada) and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central (Western Canada).
