''World Tomorrow'', or ''The Julian Assange Show'', is a 2012

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series of 26-minute political interviews hosted by

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founder and editor

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and funded by RT, the Kremlin-controlled media outlet. 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.

List of episodes

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 and broadcast internationally in English, Arabic, and Spanish by RT and Italian newspaper ''

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'', who both make the program available online. The theme for the show was composed by M.I.A. 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.

Reception

In his ''

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'' blog, Robert Mackey called RT "a strange partner" for Assange 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." In an article for ''

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'',

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described the show as proof that Assange was a "

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". Another article in ''

'' 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 more miserable final for 'world order challenger' than employee of state-controlled 'Russia Today'."

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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.

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of ''Salon'' magazine praised the show and condemned the detractors writing for ''The New York Times'' and ''The Guardian''. 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".

References

External links

* official website (description and transcript of each episode) * {{Wikileaks 2012 Russian television series debuts Works by Julian Assange RT (TV network) original programming Russian television talk shows