World Tomorrow
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.[4][5]
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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 language(s) | English Arabic Russian Spanish |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 12 |
Production | |
Production location(s) | Ellingham Hall, Norfolk |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 26 minutes |
Production company(s) | Quick Roll Productions Dartmouth Films |
Distributor | Journeyman Pictures |
Release | |
Original network | RT |
Original release | 17 April 2012 |
External links | |
[worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org Website] |
List of episodes
#[o 1] | Episode title | Originally aired | Guest(s) | Ref. |
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1 | Nasrallah | 17 April 2012 | Hassan Nasrallah | [6] |
2 | Horowitz-Zizek | 24 April 2012 | Slavoj Žižek David Horowitz |
[7] |
3 | Marzouki | 1 May 2012 | Moncef Marzouki | [8] |
4 | Alaa-Nabeel | 8 May 2012 | Alaa Abd El-Fattah Nabeel Rajab |
[9] |
5 | Cageprisoners | 15 May 2012 | Moazzam Begg Asim Qureshi |
[10] |
6 | Correa | 22 May 2012 | Rafael Correa | [11] |
7 | Occupy | 29 May 2012 | David Graeber Marisa Holmes Alexa O'Brien Aaron Peters Naomi Colvin |
[12] |
8 | Cypherpunks 1 | 5 June 2012 | Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
[13] |
9 | Cypherpunks 2 | 12 June 2012 | Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum |
[14] |
10 | Khan | 19 June 2012 | Imran Khan | [15] |
11 | Chomsky-Ali | 26 June 2012 | Noam Chomsky Tariq Ali |
[16] |
12 | Anwar | 3 July 2012 | Anwar Ibrahim | [17] |
- 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 Dartmouth Films. It is distributed by Journeyman Pictures[18] and broadcast internationally in English, Arabic, and Spanish by RT and Italian newspaper L'espresso, who both make the program available online.[1][19][20] The theme for the show was composed by M.I.A..[2][3]
Assange stated that it had not been possible to interview Ai Weiwei or Mikhail Khodorkovsky.[4]
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.[21]
Reception
In his The New York Times blog, Robert Mackey called RT "a strange partner" for Assange[22] 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."[23] In an article for The Guardian, Luke Harding described the show as proof that Assange was a "useful idiot".[24] 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'."[25]
Glenn Greenwald of Salon magazine praised the show and condemned the detractors writing for The New York Times and The Guardian.[26] Assange himself wrote a column published as a WikiLeaks press release that parodied some of the criticism.[27]
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".[28]
References
- Aslamshoyeva, Zarifmo (14 April 2012). "WikiLeaks' Assange to launch TV talk show". CNN. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
- "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.
- Buchanan, Scott; Ellis, Scott (17 April 2012). "Aussies turning heads in London". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 April 2012.
- "Official RT page" (television interview). RT. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- Smith, Laura (13 April 2012). "Assange show premiere: Time to watch 'The World Tomorrow'". RT. Retrieved 24 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 on IMDb
- The Julian Assange Show at RT.com (streaming video of each episode)