SHO Cans 'Vice' Ep on DeSantis Allegedly Viewing Torture at Gitmo

[Mark Jeffries]

The episode was to have aired May 28 and seemingly would have reported on the Florida governor and Presidential candidate viewing acts committed on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay that the UN considers torture while he was serving as a JAG at the U.S. naval base--the premium channel/streamer, the former of which will be renamed Paramount+ with Showtime at the end of the month, has given no reason for the cancellation:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ron-desantis-vice-episode-pulled-showtime-1235506705/

The TV newsmagazine spinoff of the troubled alt-media company began in 2013 on HBO on Friday nights after Bill Maher (and Maher was listed as a producer).  Two Emmys later, it expanded to the weeknight "Vice News Tonight" in 2016, the first and only time HBO cablecast a nightly news program.  Both shows were cancelled by HBO at the end of 2018, with the weeknight show moving to Vice's basic cable channel co-owned by A+E (where it's now a once-a-week series) and the weekly show moving to SHO.

[Adam Bowie]

To be honest, journalistic outfits pulling or delaying publishing stories is pretty par for the course. They might be going through a legal check when something comes up that needs more work doing, or some other aspect of a story isn't quite ready.

We definitely see it in the UK, where an episode of the BBC's long-running Panorama series might be changed at the last minute. The hold-up could be a week or could be months. (It's also more complicated in the UK by some tighter legal rules - for example, not running a story based on an ongoing court case that could be prejudicial to the trial. Sometimes stories have to wait *years* until legal proceedings have concluded).

I'm not saying this is a non-story, but just not an unusual case.

Adam

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[Tom Wolper]

And of course the Pentagon can add further obstacles to airing the piece and not give details why because of national security.

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[Mark Jeffries]

Meanwhile, the Wrap says that the delayed segment included a Vice reporter confronting DeSantis at some event (you know he doesn't do press conferences) about his time at Gitmo, which caused him to throw a hissy fit.  Allegedly.

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