In January, WikiLeaks announced the launch of a Julian Assange-hosted talk show that would include interviews with “key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world.” Today, WikiLeaks and RT, Russia’s state-funded multilingual network, said the WikiLeaks’ founder’s show, The World Of Tomorrow, will debut Tuesday, April 17. Ten episodes were originally scheduled to start airing in March with the promise of reaching 600 million viewers. WikiLeaks now says 12 episodes have been completed and will air on RT, as well as online and on “other networks to follow.” Assange, who’s under UK house arrest awaiting a decision on possible extradition to Sweden over allegations of sexual assault, conducted the interviews from the “secret location” where he’s holed up. The first 26-minute episode will feature “a notorious guest” whose identity is still under wraps. What we do know is that the first guest will be “particularly controversial” and “highly charismatic.” (The hush-hush nature of the show is kind of ironic for an organization known for its whistle-blowing prowess, I’m just sayin’…) Among future interview subjects are dissidents and some people who have never been interviewed on English-language television. Assange told RT he chose to do the show because, “being under house arrest for so long, it’s nice to have an occasional visitor and to learn more about the world. And given that the conversations we were having are quite interesting, why not film them and show other people what was going on.” Assange himself is also the subject of Underground, a TV film shooting this month in his home country of Australia starring Anthony LaPaglia and Rachel Griffiths. HBO and the BBC are also gearing up for their own WikiLeaks movie to be exec produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.


Looking forward to the show & the controversy. Always interesting world with Assange around.
Would love the first guest to be Putin but you know it’s gonna be Piers Morgan or Simon Cowell
I am going to love this show… wow… Will it be filmed in a secret location? How about Bush and Cheney for guests on the first show…. and then Kissinger and Ahamdinejad, Bibi Netanyahu and Tony Blair… a “War Criminal Week” theme. The whole world would be watching… and should be.
I look forward to this. However I approach Assange with the same caution any extremist.
I’m thinking the “notorious guest” is Mel Gibson.
Or Joe Eszterhas.
Yawn. Assange has proven himself to be a modern day carnival barker. “Wait until you see what I’ve got!!” Only to have revalation after revalation be met with a resounding thud. I have little doubt his t.v. show will be more of the same.
anyone else see the ‘Ecumenical Liberation Army’ connection here? satire is at its best when the subject doesn’t know it’s being explosively satirical.
Perhaps this will allow people to see Assange, not the bogeyman the enemies of the people portray him in.
I understand when people don’t ‘get it’, don’t know what’s going on, don’t understand what he’s doing or what the implications of the information Wikileaks has revealed to us are.
We now have proof of the things we suspected – and only the most.. i guess the word is ‘fearful’, only the most fearful of us hold on to the conjured reality we’ve been brainwashed to believe existed for the past 100 years.
only guess i have is Charlie Sheen , notoriuos ,,,but what else might he have to say ,,,?