Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump
- Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
- Producer: Christi Martinelli, Steven Sims
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Filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato produce and direct this new HBO series about an indie television station launching programming on the eve of the COVID-19 pandemic. Small Town News follows station owner Vernon Van Winkle as he fulfills his lifelong ambition of launching his own network, KVMP, in the small town of Pahrump, Nevada, population 36,000. Needless to say, news stories range from the modest to the bizarre: KVMP covers everything from dog adoptions to brothels for sale. The station also attracts its own merry crew, including a journalism professor moonlighting as a co-anchor to a gay editor afraid of becoming the victim of a local hate crime. As 2020 lurches onward, Van Winkle becomes more and more conspiratorial, much to the ire of his fellow station employees—often with hilarious results.
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