World Tomorrow
World Tomorrow | |
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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 |
Production | |
Production locations | Ellingham Hall, Norfolk |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 26 minutes |
Production companies | Quick Roll Productions |
Distributor | Journeyman Pictures |
Release | |
Original network | RT |
Original release | 17 April 2012 |
External links | |
[worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org Website] |
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 Russia's state sponsored RT.[citation needed]
List of episodes[]
#[o 1] | Episode title | Originally aired | Guest(s) | Ref. |
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1 | Nasrallah | 17 April 2012 | Hassan Nasrallah | [4] |
2 | Horowitz-Zizek | 24 April 2012 | Slavoj Žižek David Horowitz |
[5] |
3 | Marzouki | 1 May 2012 | Moncef Marzouki | [6] |
4 | Alaa-Nabeel | 8 May 2012 | Alaa Abd El-Fattah Nabeel Rajab |
[7] |
5 | Cageprisoners | 15 May 2012 | Moazzam Begg Asim Qureshi |
[8] |
6 | Correa | 22 May 2012 | Rafael Correa | [9] |
7 | Occupy | 29 May 2012 | David Graeber Alexa O'Brien Aaron Peters |
[10] |
8 | Cypherpunks 1 | 5 June 2012 | Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
[11] |
9 | Cypherpunks 2 | 12 June 2012 | Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
[12] |
10 | Khan | 19 June 2012 | Imran Khan | [13] |
11 | Chomsky-Ali | 26 June 2012 | Noam Chomsky Tariq Ali |
[14] |
12 | Anwar | 3 July 2012 | Anwar Ibrahim | [15] |
- ^ Original weekly transmission order on RT. "Cypherpunks" was transmitted in slots 8/9. The later transmission slots numbered 10–12 are alternatively referenced as episodes 9–11 in some locations.
Production[]
The show is produced by Quick Roll Productions, which was established by Julian Assange with the assistance of . It is distributed by Journeyman Pictures[16] and broadcast internationally in English, Arabic, and Spanish by RT and Italian newspaper L'espresso, who both make the program available online.[1][17][18] 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.[19]
Reception[]
In his The New York Times blog, called RT "a strange partner" for Assange[20] 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."[21] In an article for The Guardian, Luke Harding described the show as proof that Assange was a "useful idiot".[22] Another article in The Guardian by Miriam 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'."[23]
Glenn Greenwald of Salon magazine praised the show and condemned the detractors writing for The New York Times and The Guardian.[24] Assange himself wrote a column published as a WikiLeaks press release that parodied some of the criticism.[25]
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".[26]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Aslamshoyeva, Zarifmo (14 April 2012). "WikiLeaks' Assange to launch TV talk show". CNN. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's new MIA-featuring TV series to air from tomorrow (April 17)". New Musical Express. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Buchanan, Scott; Ellis, Scott (17 April 2012). "Aussies turning heads in London". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Episode 1". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Episode 2". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Episode 3". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- ^ "Episode 4". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 14 May 2012.
- ^ "Episode 5: Cageprisoners". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ^ "Episode 6: Correa". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ^ "Episode 7: Occupy". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
- ^ "Episode 8". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
- ^ "Episode 9". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
- ^ "Episode 10". WikiLeaks.
- ^ "Episode 11". WikiLeaks.
- ^ "Episode 12". WikiLeaks.
- ^ "The World Tomorrow - Complete Series". Journeyman Pictures.
- ^ "The World Tomorrow: About". WikiLeaks. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- ^ Halliday, Josh (13 April 2012). "Julian Assange's TV chatshow to air on 17 April". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- ^ http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/assange-lines-up-russian-tv-gig/story-fnd134gw-1226458129578
- ^ Nytimes.com, 13 April 2012
- ^ Colvile, Robert (20 June 2012). "The downfall of a moralising moron is truly a thing of beauty". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ Harding, Luke (17 April 2012). "The World Tomorrow: Julian Assange proves a useful idiot". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ Elder, Miriam (25 January 2012). "WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's TV show to be aired on Russian channel". The Guardian.
- ^ Salon.com, 18 April 2012
- ^ Wikileaks.org
- ^ Tracy Quan (3 July 2012). "I Love the Julian Assange Show!". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
External links[]
- Official website official website (description and transcript of each episode)
- The World Tomorrow at IMDb
- 2012 Russian television series debuts
- 2010s Russian television series
- RT (TV network) original programming
- Russian television talk shows
- WikiLeaks