World Tomorrow

{{other uses|The World Tomorrow (disambiguation){{!}}The World Tomorrow}}

{{Infobox television

| alt_name = {{lang|ar|عالم الغد|rtl=yes}},
{{lang|es|El Mundo del Mañana}},
The Julian Assange Show

| genre = Political talk show

| image = Wikileaks-world-tomorrow-title-card-960x540.png

| alt = "World Tomorrow" English-language title card framegrab

| 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

| first_aired = {{start date|2012|04|17|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{End date|2012|07|03|df=y}}

}}

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.{{cite news |first=Zarifmo |last=Aslamshoyeva |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/14/world/europe/russia-wikileaks |title=WikiLeaks' Assange to launch TV talk show |publisher=CNN |date=14 April 2012 |access-date=24 April 2012}}{{cite news |last=Astrasheuskaya |first=Nastassia |date=26 January 2012 |title=WikiLeaks founder to host Kremlin-funded TV show |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/wikileaks-founder-to-host-kremlin-funded-tv-show-idUSTRE80P0TV/ |publisher=Reuters |location=Moscow}} 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.{{Cite book |last=Stanger |first=Allison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BGsDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Julian+Assange+Show%22+%22april+17+2012%22&pg=PA181 |title=Whistleblowers |date=2019-09-24 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-18688-8 |language=en}}

List of episodes

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#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. ! Episode title ! Originally aired ! Guest(s) ! Ref.
style="text-align:center;"\| 1 \| Nasrallah \| 17 April 2012 \| Hassan Nasrallah \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-1.html \|title=Episode 1 \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=4 May 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2 \| Horowitz-Zizek \| 24 April 2012 \| Slavoj Žižek David Horowitz \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-2.html \|title=Episode 2 \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=4 May 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 3 \| Marzouki \| 1 May 2012 \| Moncef Marzouki \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-3.html \|title=Episode 3 \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=4 May 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 4 \| Alaa-Nabeel \| 8 May 2012 \| Alaa Abd El-Fattah Nabeel Rajab \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-4.html \|title=Episode 4 \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=14 May 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 5 \| Cageprisoners \| 15 May 2012 \| Moazzam Begg Asim Qureshi \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-5.html \|title=Episode 5: Cageprisoners \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=19 May 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 6 \| Correa \| 22 May 2012 \| Rafael Correa \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-6.html \|title=Episode 6: Correa \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=22 May 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 7 \| Occupy \| 29 May 2012 \| David Graeber Marisa Holmes Alexa O'Brien Aaron Peters Naomi Colvin \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-7.html \|title=Episode 7: Occupy \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=5 June 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 8 \| Cypherpunks 1 \| 5 June 2012 \| Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-8.html \|title=Episode 8 \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=7 June 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 9 \| Cypherpunks 2 \| 12 June 2012 \| Andy Müller-Maguhn Jérémie Zimmermann Jacob Appelbaum \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-9.html \|title=Episode 9 \|publisher=WikiLeaks \|access-date=11 June 2012}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 10 \| Khan \| 19 June 2012 \| Imran Khan \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-10.html \|title=Episode 10 \|publisher=WikiLeaks }}
style="text-align:center;"\| 11 \| Chomsky-Ali \| 26 June 2012 \| Noam Chomsky Tariq Ali \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-11.html \|title=Episode 11 \|publisher=WikiLeaks }}
style="text-align:center;"\| 12 \| Anwar \| 3 July 2012 \| Anwar Ibrahim \| style="text-align:center;"\| {{cite web \|url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-12.html \|title=Episode 12 \|publisher=WikiLeaks }}

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#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.

! Episode title

! Originally aired

! Guest(s)

! Ref.

style="text-align:center;"| 1

| Nasrallah

| 17 April 2012

| Hassan Nasrallah

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-1.html |title=Episode 1 |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=4 May 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 2

| Horowitz-Zizek

| 24 April 2012

| Slavoj Žižek
David Horowitz

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-2.html |title=Episode 2 |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=4 May 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 3

| Marzouki

| 1 May 2012

| Moncef Marzouki

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-3.html |title=Episode 3 |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=4 May 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 4

| Alaa-Nabeel

| 8 May 2012

| Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Nabeel Rajab

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-4.html |title=Episode 4 |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=14 May 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 5

| Cageprisoners

| 15 May 2012

| Moazzam Begg
Asim Qureshi

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-5.html |title=Episode 5: Cageprisoners |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=19 May 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 6

| Correa

| 22 May 2012

| Rafael Correa

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-6.html |title=Episode 6: Correa |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=22 May 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 7

| Occupy

| 29 May 2012

| David Graeber
Marisa Holmes
Alexa O'Brien
Aaron Peters
Naomi Colvin

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-7.html |title=Episode 7: Occupy |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=5 June 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 8

| Cypherpunks 1

| 5 June 2012

| Andy Müller-Maguhn
Jérémie Zimmermann
Jacob Appelbaum

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-8.html |title=Episode 8 |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=7 June 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 9

| Cypherpunks 2

| 12 June 2012

| Andy Müller-Maguhn
Jérémie Zimmermann
Jacob Appelbaum

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-9.html |title=Episode 9 |publisher=WikiLeaks |access-date=11 June 2012}}

style="text-align:center;"| 10

| Khan

| 19 June 2012

| Imran Khan

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-10.html |title=Episode 10 |publisher=WikiLeaks }}

style="text-align:center;"| 11

| Chomsky-Ali

| 26 June 2012

| Noam Chomsky
Tariq Ali

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-11.html |title=Episode 11 |publisher=WikiLeaks }}

style="text-align:center;"| 12

| Anwar

| 3 July 2012

| Anwar Ibrahim

| style="text-align:center;"| {{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/episode-12.html |title=Episode 12 |publisher=WikiLeaks }}

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{{cite web|url=http://www.journeyman.tv/film/5530 |title=The World Tomorrow - Complete Series |work=Journeyman Pictures}} and broadcast internationally in English, Arabic, and Spanish by RT and Italian newspaper L'espresso, who both make the program available online.{{cite web |url=http://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/about.html |title=The World Tomorrow: About |access-date=24 April 2012 |publisher=WikiLeaks}}{{cite news |first=Josh |last=Halliday |author-link=Josh Holloway |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/apr/13/julian-assange-tv-chatshow |title=Julian Assange's TV chatshow to air on 17 April |work=The Guardian |date=13 April 2012 |access-date=24 April 2012}} The theme for the show was composed by M.I.A.{{cite news |url=https://www.nme.com/news/mia/63271 |title=Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's new MIA-featuring TV series to air from tomorrow (April 17) |work=New Musical Express |date=16 April 2012 |access-date=16 April 2012}}{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-diary/aussies-turning-heads-in-london-20120416-1x3xc.html|title=Aussies turning heads in London|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|first1=Scott|last1=Buchanan|first2=Scott|last2=Ellis|date=17 April 2012|access-date=16 April 2012}}

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.[https://archive.today/20121230110720/http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/assange-lines-up-russian-tv-gig/story-fnd134gw-1226458129578]

Reception

In his The New York Times blog, Robert Mackey called RT "a strange partner" for Assange[http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/13/assange-tv-presented-by-the-kremlin/ Nytimes.com], 13 April 2012 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."{{cite news|last=Colvile|first=Robert|title=The downfall of a moralising moron is truly a thing of beauty|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/9344472/The-downfall-of-a-moralising-moron-is-truly-a-thing-of-beauty.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=20 June 2012|access-date=11 April 2019}} In an article for The Guardian, Luke Harding described the show as proof that Assange was a "useful idiot".{{cite news|last=Harding|first=Luke|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/apr/17/world-tomorrow-julian-assange-wikileaks|title=The World Tomorrow: Julian Assange proves a useful idiot|work=The Guardian|date=17 April 2012|access-date=11 April 2019}} 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'."{{cite news|last=Elder|first=Miriam|title=WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's TV show to be aired on Russian channel|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jan/25/wikileaks-julian-assange-russian-tv|newspaper=The Guardian|date=25 January 2012}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Coscarelli |first=Joe |date=2012-04-17 |title=Julian Assange's Talk Show Is Yet Another WikiLeaks Letdown |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/04/julian-assange-talk-show-another-wikileaks-letdown.html |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Intelligencer |language=en}}

Glenn Greenwald of Salon magazine praised the show and condemned the detractors writing for The New York Times and The Guardian.[http://www.salon.com/2012/04/18/attacks_on_rt_and_assange_reveal_much_about_the_critics Salon.com], 18 April 2012 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".{{cite web|author=Tracy Quan |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/03/i-love-the-julian-assange-show.html |title=I Love the Julian Assange Show! |publisher=The Daily Beast |date=3 July 2012 |access-date=20 August 2012}}

References

External links

{{official website|https://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/}} official website (description and transcript of each episode)
{{IMDb title|2223847|The World Tomorrow}}

Category:2012 Russian television series debuts

Category:Works by Julian Assange

Category:RT (TV network) original programming

Category:Russian television talk shows