From a media release:

VICELAND Announces New Slate of Original Programming with Six All-New Canadian-Produced Series

• Pilot episode of VICE’s first-ever scripted comedy series, Nirvanna The Band The Show, premieres this fall
• VICELAND is available on an extended free-preview period until Sept. 30, 2016

Rogers and VICE today announced six additions to the 2016 summer/fall schedule for Canadian specialty channel VICELAND, including the network’s first-ever scripted series, Nirvanna The Band The Show. Commissioned by Rogers, the newly announced original programming slate will all be produced by VICE through VICE Studio Canada.

From the creative team behind the critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated films The Dirties (2013) and Operation Avalanche (2016), Nirvanna The Band The Show is a 10-part, 30-minute comedy series following two lifelong best friends and roommates as they plan the greatest musical act in the history of the modern world. Without ever playing a note, Nirvanna the Band will take Toronto by storm, one scheme at time.

Canadian content and culture take a front seat as VICELAND brings a fresh approach to linear programming for viewers at home and abroad with a diverse programming lineup spanning a vast array of themes, including culinary adventure program Dead Set on Life, starring celebrity chef Matty Matheson, and tech docu-series Cyberwar, hosted by VICE journalist Ben Makuch.

Please see below for additional programming descriptions and broadcast details. VICELAND is available on an extended free-preview period until September 30, 2016.

Cyberwar: Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings), beginning July 5
**Series Premiere**
A 16-part, 30-minute doc series tapping into the geopolitics of hacking and government surveillance. Ben Makuch travels around the world to meet with hackers, government officials, and social dissidents to investigate the world’s cyber warfare mysteries.

Abandoned: Wednesdays at 11 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings), beginning July 6
**Series Premiere**
In this 10-part, 60-minute series, legendary skateboarder Rick McCrank embarks on a journey exploring abandoned landmarks and architectural remains with the people who lived, breathed and held these places dear.

Dead Set on Life: Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT (check local listings), beginning July 7
**Series Premiere**
An eight-part, 30-minute doc series, Dead Set on Life takes viewers on a culinary adventure from the mind of Matty Matheson – a boisterously warm Canadian chef. From $6 subs at gas stations to the most sought-after ingredients on the planet, Matty eats it all and meets amazing people on the way.

RISE: ***Broadcast details to be announced at a later date; special sneak peek of the pilot episode to air June 19 at 11 p.m. ET/PT
**Series Premiere**

RISE brings viewers to the frontlines of Indigenous resistance in this eight-part, one-hour documentary series. Sarain Carson-Fox and Gitz Crazyboy travel to Indigenous communities to meet people engaged in protecting their homelands and rising up against threats to their survival.

Payday: ***Broadcast details to be announced at a later date
**Series Premiere**

This eight-part, one-hour documentary series follows millennials as they navigate the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Each episode’s distinct city serves as the backbone of the narrative analyzing each character’s economic situations. Payday is ultimately a critical examination of a disillusioned generation who are highly educated and streetwise yet facing mounting debt, struggling to find decent jobs, and working to survive post-economic collapse.

Nirvanna The Band The Show: ***Broadcast details to be announced at a later date
**Series Premiere**
Matt and Jay can’t catch a break. Jay is a savant, a talented musician who can play any song on piano by listening to just a few bars. Matt is less musically inclined, but is somehow the brains of the operation. Together, they are Nirvanna the Band and are trying to make it big in the Toronto music scene. From the creative team behind the independent films The Dirties (2013) and Operation Avalanche (2016), this scripted series is created by and stars childhood friends Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol.

From a media release:

City Greenlights Two Original Scripted Series,
Second Jen and Bad Blood: The Vito Rizzuto Story

• Coming-of-age, digital-first comedy Second Jen stars co-creators Samantha Wan and Amanda Joy
• Inspired by true events, series Bad Blood follows the life and death of notorious underworld figure, Vito Rizzuto

City adds two new original scripted series to its lineup with millennial-focused, digital-first comedy Second Jen, and limited event drama Bad Blood: The Vito Rizzuto Story.  Currently in pre-production, these new original series join the City 2016/2017 prime-time schedule alongside fan-favourite survivalist thriller, Between. Broadcast details to be announced in the coming months.

Created by and starring Samantha Wan (Sudden Master) and Amanda Joy (Trapped in Terra),Second Jen is a coming-of-age comedy about two second-generation Chinese and Filipino-Canadian millennials and best friends experiencing all of life’s “firsts”.  Produced by Don Ferguson Productions, the new digital-first comedy is set to begin shooting this summer with showrunner Jeff Biederman helming the project, who also acts as an executive producer alongside Don Ferguson, Lucy Stewart and Kevin Wallis of Don Ferguson Productions.  Romeo Candido is slated to direct. This six-part, 30-minute, digital-first scripted series will premiere on Citytv.com in fall 2016, and will air on City and OMNI Television at a later date.

Inspired by reputed mobster Vito Rizzuto, and based on the best-selling book, Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto’s Last War by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards, Bad Blood: The Vito Rizzuto Story is a six-part, 60-minute scripted limited event series debuting on City and FX in 2017. While imprisoned in Colorado’s Supermax Prison for the murders of three Bonanno family members, Rizzuto watches helplessly as the thriving empire he built is dismantled, and his closest friends and family members are mysteriously murdered one by one. When Rizzuto is finally released from prison, a Shakespearean-level revenge tale plays out – leading to the brutal murders of his closest companions, and ultimately the death of Rizzuto himself. Bad Blood: The Vito Rizzuto Story is produced by New Metric Media, Sphere Media and DHX Media. Writers and Executive Producers are Michael Konyves (Barney’s Version) and Simon Barry (Van Helsing).