World Tomorrow Explained

Alt Name:Arabic: عالم الغد|rtl=yes,
Spanish; Castilian: El Mundo del Mañana,
The Julian Assange Show
Genre:Political talk show
Creator:Julian Assange
Presenter:Julian Assange
Theme Music Composer:M.I.A.
Language:English
Arabic
Russian
Spanish
Num Seasons:1
Num Episodes:12
Location:Ellingham Hall, Norfolk
Camera:Multi-camera
Runtime:26 minutes
Company:Quick Roll Productions
Dartmouth Films
Channel:RT

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 and funded by RT, the Kremlin-controlled media outlet.[1] [2] Twelve episodes were shot prior to the program's premiere. 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.[3]

List of episodes

  1. [4]
Episode titleOriginally airedGuest(s)Ref.
1Nasrallah17 April 2012Hassan Nasrallah[5]
2Horowitz-Zizek24 April 2012Slavoj Žižek
David Horowitz
[6]
3Marzouki1 May 2012Moncef Marzouki[7]
4Alaa-Nabeel8 May 2012Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Nabeel Rajab
[8]
5Cageprisoners15 May 2012Moazzam Begg
Asim Qureshi
[9]
6Correa22 May 2012Rafael Correa[10]
7Occupy29 May 2012David Graeber
Marisa Holmes
Alexa O'Brien
Aaron Peters
Naomi Colvin
[11]
8Cypherpunks 15 June 2012Andy Müller-Maguhn
Jérémie Zimmermann
Jacob Appelbaum
[12]
9Cypherpunks 212 June 2012Andy Müller-Maguhn
Jérémie Zimmermann
Jacob Appelbaum
[13]
10Khan 19 June 2012Imran Khan[14]
11Chomsky-Ali 26 June 2012Noam Chomsky
Tariq Ali
[15]
12Anwar3 July 2012Anwar Ibrahim[16]

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[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.[20] [21]

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.[22]

Reception

In his The New York Times blog, Robert Mackey called RT "a strange partner" for Assange[23] 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."[24] In an article for The Guardian, Luke Harding described the show as proof that Assange was a "useful idiot".[25] 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'."[26] 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.[27]

Glenn Greenwald of Salon magazine praised the show and condemned the detractors writing for The New York Times and The Guardian.[28] 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".[29]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Zarifmo . Aslamshoyeva . WikiLeaks' Assange to launch TV talk show . CNN . 14 April 2012 . 24 April 2012.
  2. News: Astrasheuskaya . Nastassia . 26 January 2012 . WikiLeaks founder to host Kremlin-funded TV show . Reuters . Moscow.
  3. Book: Stanger, Allison . Whistleblowers . 2019-09-24 . Yale University Press . 978-0-300-18688-8 . en.
  4. 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.
  5. Web site: Episode 1 . WikiLeaks . 4 May 2012.
  6. Web site: Episode 2 . WikiLeaks . 4 May 2012.
  7. Web site: Episode 3 . WikiLeaks . 4 May 2012.
  8. Web site: Episode 4 . WikiLeaks . 14 May 2012.
  9. Web site: Episode 5: Cageprisoners . WikiLeaks . 19 May 2012.
  10. Web site: Episode 6: Correa . WikiLeaks . 22 May 2012.
  11. Web site: Episode 7: Occupy . WikiLeaks . 5 June 2012.
  12. Web site: Episode 8 . WikiLeaks . 7 June 2012.
  13. Web site: Episode 9 . WikiLeaks . 11 June 2012.
  14. Web site: Episode 10 . WikiLeaks .
  15. Web site: Episode 11 . WikiLeaks .
  16. Web site: Episode 12 . WikiLeaks .
  17. Web site: The World Tomorrow - Complete Series . Journeyman Pictures.
  18. Web site: The World Tomorrow: About . 24 April 2012 . WikiLeaks.
  19. News: Josh . Halliday . Josh Holloway . Julian Assange's TV chatshow to air on 17 April . . 13 April 2012 . 24 April 2012.
  20. News: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's new MIA-featuring TV series to air from tomorrow (April 17) . . 16 April 2012 . 16 April 2012.
  21. News: Aussies turning heads in London. The Sydney Morning Herald. Scott. Buchanan. Scott. Ellis. 17 April 2012. 16 April 2012.
  22. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/assange-lines-up-russian-tv-gig/story-fnd134gw-1226458129578
  23. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/assange-tv-presented-by-the-kremlin/ Nytimes.com
  24. News: Colvile. Robert. The downfall of a moralising moron is truly a thing of beauty. The Daily Telegraph. 20 June 2012. 11 April 2019.
  25. News: Harding. Luke. The World Tomorrow: Julian Assange proves a useful idiot. The Guardian. 17 April 2012. 11 April 2019.
  26. News: Elder. Miriam. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's TV show to be aired on Russian channel. The Guardian. 25 January 2012.
  27. Web site: Coscarelli . Joe . 2012-04-17 . Julian Assange's Talk Show Is Yet Another WikiLeaks Letdown . 2023-10-23 . Intelligencer . en.
  28. http://www.salon.com/2012/04/18/attacks_on_rt_and_assange_reveal_much_about_the_critics Salon.com
  29. Web site: Tracy Quan . I Love the Julian Assange Show! . . 3 July 2012 . 20 August 2012.