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 location | Ellingham Hall, Norfolk |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 26 minutes |
Production companies | Quick Roll Productions Dartmouth Films |
Original release | |
Network | RT |
Release | 17 April 3 July 2012 | –
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 |
[6] |
3 | Marzouki | 1 May 2012 | Moncef Marzouki | [7] |
4 | Alaa-Nabeel | 8 May 2012 |
Alaa Abd El-Fattah Nabeel Rajab |
[8] |
5 | Cageprisoners | 15 May 2012 |
Moazzam Begg Asim Qureshi |
[9] |
6 | Correa | 22 May 2012 | Rafael Correa | [10] |
7 | Occupy | 29 May 2012 |
David Graeber Marisa Holmes Alexa O'Brien Aaron Peters Naomi Colvin |
[11] |
8 | Cypherpunks 1 | 5 June 2012 |
Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
[12] |
9 | Cypherpunks 2 | 12 June 2012 |
Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
[13] |
10 | Khan | 19 June 2012 | Imran Khan | [14] |
11 | Chomsky-Ali | 26 June 2012 |
Noam Chomsky Tariq Ali |
[15] |
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 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'." [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 Greenwald of Salon 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]