On Feb. 29, H2 becomes Viceland, a 24-hour lifestyle channel aimed at millennials. According to filmmaker and creative director of the new channel Spike Jones, “It feels like most channels are just a collection of shows. We wanted Viceland to be different, to feel like everything on there has a reason to exist and a strong point of view. [The shows on Viceland are] all unscripted shows, made by filmmakers. We’re trying to make a channel that’s personal, that feels like a group of people trying to understand the world we live in.”
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A list of shows that will air on Viceland includes:
Gaycation: Actress Ellen Page and her friend Ian Daniel explore LGBT experiences around the world.
Flophouse: Chronicles the life and standup routines of a group of aspiring comedians on the underground circuit. Clare O’Kane and others are featured.
Huang’s World (pictured): Eddie Huang, chef and author of the best-selling book “Fresh Off The Boat,” takes a personal and political look at food culture.
Noisey: Created Andy Capper, Noisey is a music documentary series. Correspondent Zach Goldbaum gets a firsthand look into the most interesting music scenes in America and around the world. Each episode focuses on a single city – from Compton, to Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, Toronto, London, Sao Paolo and beyond.
F*ck That’s Delicious: Action Bronson is a famous rapper from Queens, New York and a classically trained chef. Every episode follows Action and his crew as they travel from concert to concert enjoying all manner of fine foods, wines, and herbs along the way.
Balls Deep: Correspondent Thomas Morton embeds himself into the lives of others to experience what life looks like from their point-of-view. From a Pentecostal preacher to a Muslim-American family to gay bears in Provincetown, Thomas absorbs every part of his counterparts’ lives: their customs, philosophies, their habits and habitats.
Weediquette (pictured): Krishna Andavolu chronicles the science, culture and economics of the emerging “green” economy, explores the impact of marijuana legalization across the U.S. and internationally, examining how people on all sides of this issue are dealing with the growing popularity and acceptance of marijuana.
Fashion Week International: Host Hailey Gates travels the world seeking fashion and beauty customs far from the glossy runways of New York, London, and Paris. From Pakistan to the Congo, Venezuela, Russia, and beyond, Hailey uncovers fascinating fashion trends while confronting the issues they conjure, from gender, to race, to politics, religion, and economics.
Vice World of Sports: Sal Masekela and a team of reporters travel to communities in Ghana, Michigan, Serbia and Argentina to meet athletes, explore their rivalries and understand the games people play.
Viceland’s premiere lineup: Noisey, Weediquette (March 1 at 10 and 11pm); Gaycation, Balls Deep (March 2 at 10 and 11pm); F*ck, That’s Delicious, Flophouse (March 3 at 10 and 10:30pm).
Viceland is available on Channel 121 on Dish; Channel 271 on DTV; Channel 257 on AT&T and Channel 127 on Verizon. Otherwise, because channel lineups vary from region to region, checking your local listings or try Google for information on where to find the channel in your area.
Images courtesy of Viceland
Well….guess I will be blocking what used to be one of my favorite channels. This is BS!
Switching H2 to Viceland is perhaps one of the all-time idiotic programming decisions. #EpicFail
H2 was an excellent channel, that has now been replaced with garbage! Terrible decision , blocking this channel, and writing a formal complaint! Vice is nothing but trash, Directv should be ashamed
This decision to replace H2
with Viceland is one of the worst ever!
H2 was the best channel in our package, now it’s garbage! Just one more reason to dump the expensive package we now have and go to a cheaper package which still has History1 (thank God!) Was H2 replaced because it’s cheap junk?
I use H2 as background noise in my shop which is educational and not offensive. VICELAND? Really how is that educational? how does that appeal to customers walking in to my shop/ Honestly I thought it was DirectTv making the change and I was going to drop my service with them. A&E need to get thing straight. We need to learn more about American and not American Thugs.
Viceland??? More like “Garbageland”….use to watch a lot on H2….won’t be watching this garbage…..what a joke….
Another mind numbing uninteresting channel among a wasteland of such channels. H2 wasn’t great but it was better than this drivel. Thank God for channels such as AMC, FX, Showtime and HBO that are creating original and INTERESTING programming!
Removing the H2 channel and replacing with this new Viceland channel is very upsetting. I’ve read where it is supposed to lure youngsters back to TV with programming they want…really? When I turned on what I thought was H2 (now Viceland)…there was a show currently in progress and all that was taking place was people rolling blunts and smoking weed! I looked at the rest of the program and it is all HORRIBLE! Who wants their kids watching this crap!!!! MAJOR FAIL….
Shame on you for replacing H2 with the garbage of VICE.!!!!!!
I agree with all above – what type of society are we in where this is “what the viewers want”? This is not what the viewers want. Who are you listening to? What insipid junk!
Viceland is awful, bring our H2 back! Most of the shows I watched were on H2 and now you have replaced it with this crap.
For those of you that are threatening to get rid of your programming provider over this – it wasn’t their call so don’t blame them
Being back H2!!!! Take this hipster bullcrap & shove it!!!!!
What a moronic decision to remove the H2 history and science channel for this trash. It is no wonder our country is in such a mess. I am blocking the vice channel, then getting rid of dish altogether at the end of the month.
What a terrible decision. Catering to the uber liberal crowd is a poor marketing decision as they shun the work needed to earn money. Money is still required to buy things from your advertisers. It won’t take advertisers long to pull their support. You’ll be running ads for kitten mittens before long you stupid fools. Your only chance at redemption is to see the folly of your brain fart and bring H2 back!
There are 10’s of channels like this c… shows. H2 was unique. Give us the station back!!!!!!!! I insist!!!!
I want H2 back too, PLEASE!!! I loved it and it’s 1 of not too many channels that I use to watch. We need more science on tv, more decent programs. This world is getting dumber with all those “reality shows”. Give us H2 back!!!
Put H2 back on!! I literally watched 2 channels-I HATE REALITY TV! Heaven forbid people see Historical events or science…your channel is blocked…toolbag Viceland…
Don’t watch that nonsense it’s terrible
Vice land is stupid we need more shows about science n history and docs I’m 26 n from Boston I love to learn while entertaining myself BOYCOT nobody watch it rating will drop n they will bring back our shows