Meet The Small-Town Nevada News Crew That HBO Decided To Make A TV Show About

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more stark personification of irony in the news business today than Vern Van Winkle. A gregarious, Trump-loving businessman, he also happens to be the owner of a small, independent TV news station in a desert town about an hour’s drive outside of Las Vegas. Like the poet, Van Winkle is both large and contains multitudes

‘Small Town News’: The Unconventional Road to a Different Kind of 2020 Story

For a show set during the last full calendar year, there’s surprisingly little in “Small Town News: KPVM Pahrump” that directly references the most pervasive, overarching story of 2020. Though the long-simmering documentary project paused its cameras for much of the year, when it returned in the fall, the goal was to make something that let its subject be the focus.