The show will reportedly reach over 600 million viewers worldwide. | REUTERS Assange announces own talk show

Is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange the next new face in the world of TV talk shows?

That’s what the creator of the controversial website – which caused many a headache for the U.S. government by unleashing scores of classified documents in the name of transparency – announced in a statement published on the group’s website.


The theme of his show? “The world tomorrow.”

“Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it,” Assange said in his announcement late Monday. “Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths? This is an exciting opportunity to discuss the vision of my guests in a new style of show that examines their philosophies and struggles in a deeper and clearer way than has been done before.”

According to the release, which hails Assange “both a pioneer for a more just world and a victim of political repression” who is “uniquely placed to catalyse a global discussion on how to go forward,” the TV series will begin airing mid-March in 10 half-hour weekly episodes.

The show will reportedly reach over 600 million viewers worldwide, and Assange will talk to “key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries’” from across the globe. But it is unclear which networks will broadcast the show — the release stated that it will show on various “cable, satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks.”

WikiLeaks had announced in October that the group was close to shuttering its website due to financial troubles.