We're switching on SBS VICELAND today at 4 PM. It's Channel 32 on your remote control—write that down. Televisions are those big screens in the lounge room in front of the couch—write that down too.

Now, here are some shows.

5 PM November 15, then Mondays at 8.30 PM from November 21

Matty Matheson: sneakerhead, Canadian, F-bomb lover, and restaurateur. He's the exuberant personality behind Dead Set on Life, the world's most expletive-laden travelling cooking show, and he's a foodie like no other foodie on earth. If you're not yet acquainted, don't worry: in episode one, Matheson takes viewers to his hometown of Toronto and explains how his lifelong obsession with good eats led him to become an acclaimed chef.

5.30 PM November 15, then Thursdays at 9.25 PM from November 24

In Cyberwar, VICE journalist Ben Makuch travels the world to visit frontlines in our battle for inline control. He interviews hackers, government officials, and dissidents from China, Syria, and the USA. Get to know the malware that could take down your city with nothing but code.

Believe it or not, clothing trends don't begin and end at New York Fashion Week. In States of Undress, Hailey Gates travels to China, Palestine, Russia, Venezuela, the Congo, and Pakistan to see how runways look elsewhere. In the process, she shows viewers sides to the industry that are often neglected or outright ignored.

7 PM. Every weeknight. This is your new source of news, taking place not from behind a desk but out on the streets. Each edition features on-the-ground reporting from VICE correspondents everywhere around the globe. It's hard-hitting, occasionally irreverent journalism that examines issues from student debt to climate change to heroin warfare.

Hosted by Ellen Page and her best friend Ian Daniel, Gaycation is a travel show from a LGBTQI perspective. In their first gaycation, Ellen and Ian take Japan, a nation with a strangely ambiguous stance on homosexuality and queer issues. Next up is Rio De Janeiro, a queer party capital with a contradiction: it has the highest LGBTQI murder rate in the world. The duo also visit Jamaica, Ukraine, India, France, and the USA's Deep South.

Action Bronson cooks. Action Bronson raps. Action Bronson owns one of the world's foremost collections of artisanal bongs. Oh, and he's the star of Fuck That's Delicious, his web series-turned bona fide cooking show that sees him sample some of the best dishes on the planet. Look out for the Australia episode, where the best half-Albanian rapper pays a visit to Melbourne and Sydney.

The inimitable Michael K Williams, from The Wire and Boardwalk Empire, makes the perfect host for Black Market, a journey into the dangerous if fascinating world of illicit trade. From New York City to Newark New Jersey to central London, Williams speaks to gunrunners, abalone fishermen, and purveyors of addictive opioid-based cough syrup, in order to find out what drives illegal industries.

Music nerds, here's your show. Hosted by Zach Goldbaum, who interviews everybody from Kendrick Lamar to Justin Bieber, Noisey visits the cultures and communities that have spawned some of our generation's greatest artists: from the rising stars of grime trying to make it big in London, to rappers living it up in rebounding Detroit, to the mega-rich DJs of Las Vegas.

You know how we're meant to try and understand other people's perspectives by putting ourselves in their shoes, or something? Balls Deep makes that process a whole lot easier. Host Thomas Morton hangs out with a bunch of unlikely groups—from Florida Seniors to graduating High School seniors, to New York City tugboat operators—and tries to live the way they do. Spoiler alert: it's not always easy.

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