October 5, 2026 · 12:25 PM·2 min read
NEW YORK—Dirty magazine, the independent New York publication that covers art, sex, politics, fashion and underground culture, has launched Dirty TV, “a new video channel bringing the magazine’s editorial world to lo-fi film,” a representative said.
Developed as both an extension of the magazine and a platform in its own right, Dirty TV combines long-form interviews, documentary reporting, cultural criticism and original entertainment, “with the immediacy and visual language of DIY media.”
The rep says the magazine has already amassed an extensive archive of conversations with figures spanning entertainment, including the adult industry, labor, literature, film, skateboarding and independent media.
Interview subjects include labor organizer Chris Smalls; performers Angela White and Abella Danger; Jenkem Magazine founder Ian Michna; Amazon worker Tristan Lion; Bronx Girls Skate; performer/directors Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas; porn historian Noelle Perdue; novelist Allie Rowbottom; comedians Rachel Wolfson and Steve-O; Bam Margera’s parents April and Phil and other members of the Jackass crew; and director and producer Lilly Wachowski, among others.
“Rather than reproduce the conventions of traditional television or digital media, Dirty TV approaches video with the same editorial philosophy that has shaped Dirty in print,” the rep explained. “Serious curiosity without institutional polish, an interest in people and subcultures often flattened or ignored by mainstream media, and a willingness to move freely between politics, sexuality, humor, art and everyday life.”
“We keep trying to figure out how to describe it to people,” said Dirty publisher and co-editor-in-chief Ripley Soprano. “The closest I’ve gotten is that it’s like a liberated Girls Gone Wild or an anarcho-queer Jackass, except there’s serious journalism in there, too. We've covered the hunger strikes at Delaney Hall ICE facility and the unionization of Amazon workers.”
The project deliberately rejects the increasingly standardized aesthetics of digital publishing in favor of something still distinctly analog, according to Soprano.
“We want the journalism to be good and the production to occasionally look like shit,” Soprano said. “Serious journalism, lo-fi porn aesthetics. That’s basically the brief.”
Dirty TV has been developed closely by Soprano and the channel's executive producer Hipp, “building a video world around the magazine and the community that has grown alongside it.” The Dirty TV logo was designed by Maia Raymer, Dirty magazine’s creative director. "The whole crew is shaping the channel as it rolls out: Camila Chica, Aurora O'Greenfield, Melinda May, Trinity Noone, Stephanie Reid, Felipe Gouviea and so many others."
The channel launches with a trailer edited by Kenneth Bachor, bringing together members of the growing “Dirty TV Universe”—including adult performers Small Hands, Maddie V Baby and Angel Youngs—and serving as “a fast-moving introduction to the character hosts, shenanigans and sex-appeal that define the project.”
“Print and IRL community is still the heart of Dirty,” Soprano said. “But there are things a magazine can’t capture. Sometimes you need to hear somebody talk. Sometimes you need to watch somebody wipe out skating. Sometimes somebody needs to take their clothes off. Sometimes something needs to be lit on fire.”
Dirty TV is now live on YouTube. Watch the trailer here.
Fuente: avn.com
