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Also known as | عالم الغد, El Mundo del Mañana, The Julian Assange Show |
Genre | Political talk show |
Created by | Julian Assange |
Presented by | Julian Assange |
Theme music composer | M.I.A. |
Original languages | English Arabic Russian Spanish |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
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Production location | Ellingham Hall, Norfolk |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 26 minutes |
Production companies | Quick Roll Productions Dartmouth Films |
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Network | RT |
Release | 17 April (2012-04-17T0Z) – 3 July 2012 (2012-07-03T0Z) |
World Tomorrow, or The Julian Assange Show, is a 2012 television program series of 26-minute political interviews hosted by WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange.[1] Twelve episodes were shot prior to the program's premiere.[2][3] It first aired on 17 April 2012, the 500th day of the "financial blockade" of WikiLeaks, on RT, and last aired on 3 July 2012.[4]
#[o 1] | Episode title | Originally aired | Guest(s) | Ref. |
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1 | Nasrallah | 17 April 2012 | Hassan Nasrallah | [5] |
2 | Horowitz-Zizek | 24 April 2012 | Slavoj Žižek David Horowitz |
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3 | Marzouki | 1 May 2012 | Moncef Marzouki | [7] |
4 | Alaa-Nabeel | 8 May 2012 | Alaa Abd El-Fattah Nabeel Rajab |
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5 | Cageprisoners | 15 May 2012 | Moazzam Begg Asim Qureshi |
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6 | Correa | 22 May 2012 | Rafael Correa | [10] |
7 | Occupy | 29 May 2012 | David Graeber Marisa Holmes Alexa O'Brien Aaron Peters Naomi Colvin |
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8 | Cypherpunks1 | 5 June 2012 | Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
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9 | Cypherpunks2 | 12 June 2012 | Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
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10 | Khan | 19 June 2012 | Imran Khan | [14] |
11 | Chomsky-Ali | 26 June 2012 | Noam Chomsky Tariq Ali |
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12 | Anwar | 3 July 2012 | Anwar Ibrahim | [16] |
The show is produced by Quick Roll Productions, which was established by Julian Assange with the assistance of Dartmouth Films. It is distributed by Journeyman Pictures[17] and broadcast internationally in English, Arabic, and Spanish by RT and Italian newspaper L'espresso, who both make the program available online.[1][18][19] The theme for the show was composed by M.I.A.[2][3]
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT, told the daily Moskovskii Komsomolets that Assange will resume making shows and allowing them to be broadcast on Russian television once his legal troubles are over.[20]
In his The New York Times blog, Robert Mackey called RT "a strange partner" for Assange[21] while Robert Colvile inveighed Assange's show by writing, "After Wikileaks – and its mission to change the world – collapsed under the weight of its leader’s ego, Assange started hosting a TV show sponsored by that noted friend of freedom, Vladimir Putin."[22] In an article for The Guardian, Luke Harding described the show as proof that Assange was a "useful idiot".[23] Another article in The GuardianbyMiriam Elder said that it was doubtful Russian "revolutionaries" will make the show's guestlist and reported a tweet by Alexander Lebedev lambasting Assange, tweeting that it was, "Hard to imagine [a] more miserable final[e] for [a] 'world order challenger' than employee of state-controlled 'Russia Today'."[24] New York magazine called the show a letdown and said『 it wasn’t even interesting』and that "the most charged few seconds of the broadcast" was the theme song.[25]
Glenn GreenwaldofSalon magazine praised the show and condemned the detractors writing for The New York Times and The Guardian.[26] At the end of the season, Tracy Quan wrote an article called "I Love the Julian Assange Show!", describing the show as "addictive, lively, wide-ranging, and informative".[27]
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