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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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    Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ Murder Trial Heads To Closing In Tupac Shakur’s 1996 Killing

    Friday, August 28, 2026

    The murder trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur is headed to closing arguments after the defense rested Thursday following testimony from three former Las Vegas police officers.

    Jurors are scheduled to return Monday for closing arguments before beginning deliberations in the only prosecution brought in the killing of the hip-hop icon. The presentation of evidence ended after nine days of testimony.

    Davis, 63, did not take the stand.

    Shakur was riding in a BMW on Sept. 7, 1996, when a white Cadillac pulled up next to it at a red light near the Las Vegas Strip and gunfire erupted. Shakur was shot multiple times and died six days later. The driver of the BMW, Marion "Suge" Knight, survived.

    Years later, Davis would say he procured the gun and his nephew, who has since died, fired the shots. Prosecutors say Davis orchestrated the killing, and he faces life in prison if convicted of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. He has pleaded not guilty.

    Defense attorney Michael Sanft has argued that Davis fabricated or embellished his accounts of the killing for money and notoriety and that investigators failed to independently corroborate his claims.

    Retired Las Vegas homicide detective Dan Long, the defense's final witness, testified that he tried unsuccessfully to verify several details Davis provided during a 2009 police interview.

    Davis told Long that his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, had gone to a Las Vegas hospital after being beaten by Shakur and others in a casino brawl hours before the rapper was fatally shot. Long said he was unable to find hospital records confirming Anderson was treated there.

    Long also tried... Read More

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