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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) - Controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is getting into the television game.Assange, who has made headlines with his disclosure of government secrets along with allegations of sexual misconduct, will host a TV series comprising "in-depth conversations with key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries from around the world," WikiLeaks said late Monday.
The title of the series has not been announced yet, but the theme will be "the world tomorrow."
The series -- which is scheduled to premiere in mid-March -- "will draw together controversial voices from across the political spectrum -- iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders -- each to offer a window on the world tomorrow and their ideas on how to secure a brighter future," WikiLeaks said.
"Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths?" Assange said of the questions to be raised by the show. "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."
Presumably, plenty of spoilers will be issued by WikiLeaks prior to the show's run.
The series, which will consist of 10 weekly half-hour episodes, has already struck licensing agreements that will cover more than 600 million viewers across cable, satellite and terrestrial broadcast networks, according to WikiLeaks.
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• 1 day 5 hrs ago Keep your heads in the sand folks as DC officials whittle away at your liberties... sorry it had to come to this, but we need to find out what our government is really up to. Journalists are supposed to do this... but that doesnt happen either. If Manning had given those docs to any journalists here in the USA, the govt would have bullied them to no end to keep its dirty little secrets. I pay the salaries of the DC officials and I want to know what they are up to.We have a right to bear arms... per the Constitution... how many of you know how hard Hillary Clinton is working to take away that right? She is trying to do so by committing the USA to an arms treaty with the UN to take away the rights of all citizens to bear arms. You really want the heads of other countries deciding what we are and are not allowed to do here? In case you never heard... but those other countries HATE us... so they would LOVE to take away our rights to a whole lot of things!!! If you do yourselves a single favor today... find out what a little more about what you have to lose before casting that stone. If DC was not so stinking corrupt, this probably never would have happened.
• Rutland, Vermont • 1 day 5 hrs ago There are two young women in Sweden who have waited over a year for the completion of the investigation into their rape charges against this man while he hangs out in an England mansion, getting donors to buy his wardrobe on Savile Row and abandoning WikiLeaks to bankruptcy to pay for his high-profile attorneys -- and some TV exec wants to reward him with a television show. What does it take to make people realize he is a con man who never actually did anything on his own? • 6 hrs ago Interesting that we might get some insight in dealing with real issues. Hopefully it would be like a Think tank. • 19 hrs ago This should be interesting. I might have to go find a TV to watch it on. • Mannford, Oklahoma • 1 day 8 hrs ago I can not see Obama, G.W. Hillery or anyone high up in this government apearing on the show. They might be asked questions that would be incriminating. • Lennon, Michigan • 1 day 9 hrs ago If it wer'nt for guys like Assange we would never know the real truth. Im a Viet Nam vet and i got to tell you some of the things we did there were not that honorable. We need people like him to tell us the truth so this will not happen again! • Richardson, Texas • 1 day 7 hrs ago The reports of sexual misconduct against Julian Assange are obviously false. They were made by women. • 1 day 0 hrs ago Very interested in what advertisers will sponsor this. • Miami, Florida • 1 day 9 hrs ago WikiLeaks is the ONLY true journalism in the world today because it publishes pure FACTS. No government would ever want The People to know the TRUTH, the US government is no different. The fact is NO ONE was ever hurt by anything published by Assange except governments that want to keep their dirty deeds secret, and that's a FACT that was quietly published. So they put out this propaganda about the "possibility" that WikiLeaks might hurt others and as usual, the sheep swallow the bull excrement.“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda
• 1 day 22 hrs ago Only in this country can you say or hurt anyone you want and then be rewarded with your own television show. • Richardson, Texas • 20 hrs ago ......not to worry, he'll join his friends at MSNBC, NBC, and PBS, as soon as they can pick up his show...... • 1 day 20 hrs ago "Free Speech" is one thing; releasing classified information that costs people's lives is quite another, but profiting off of it in the form of a TV show is about as low as it gets...right about at this guy's level, so it seems... • Richardson, Texas • 1 day 7 hrs ago It should be a hit on al-jazera. • Carmel, Indiana • 1 day 9 hrs ago A few will see other traitors of their country as guests on his show, because that is all who will watch this garbage....a few. • Iola, Kansas • 1 day 14 hrs ago first, RT NEWS, PUTIN/RUSSIA. on PBS, now Assange, another voice of communism • 1 day 7 hrs ago The only thing I want to see #$%$Ange do on TV is swing at the end of a noose. Traitorous bastid needs killin'. • 1 day 20 hrs ago I want to see his show and I want to see documents that he uncovered from PFC Manning that show what our government is really up to... we sure cant count on the journalists to do it. That being said, I do sympathize with those who were hurt or killed in any way because of this. I think he should have blocked out the names. • 1 day 12 hrs ago I look forward to his reports but have doubts as to whether television is the best medium. • 1 day 18 hrs ago His cohosts will be the Kardashians • Phoenix, Arizona • 1 day 5 hrs ago WEEEKEEDICKLESS WHAT A BUNCH OF #$%$! His new book' THE GIRLS I HAVE RAPED'!!! His second book THE US ARMY PRIVATE I RAPED!! More Post a comment [[ [['Dekraai', 10]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/mourners-remember-seal-beach-shooting-victims-1318620627-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/3/2c/32c8e92d889f42edb719cb5257afdf4e.jpeg', '461', ' ', 'Reuters/Lori Shepler',],[ [['iPhone 4SXXXXXXX', 11]], 'http://news.yahoo.com/photos/thousands-line-up-for-apple-s-iphone-4s-1318602841-slideshow/', 'Click image to see more photos', 'http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/f/4f/f4f15e8f6f323f5386dc9fdf9e15dca8.jpeg', '500', ' ', 'AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth',]][ [ [['xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', 11]], '27013743', '0'],[ [['keyword', 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999]], 'videoID', '1', 'overwrite-pre-description', 'overwrite-link-string', 'overwrite-link-url' ]] You on Yahoo! News Your Activity |Social: OFFON Turn Social ONRemind me when I share|Options What is this?Not you? Log out of FacebookHow to remove this experienceLogin with FacebookNews For YouItaly ship captain "wasted precious hour"Drew Carey & Fiancee Call Off EngagementMom Who Lost Kids, Parents in Christmas Fire Attempted Suicide: ReportBrad Pitt Marrying Angelina and Having More KidsShock Over 10th U.S. President’s Grandsons Still LivingMan gets car ban after 4 children found in trunkBill Would Ban Aborted Fetuses in FoodBrewer says she meant no disrespect toward ObamaNASA's 'impossibly beautiful' photo of EarthPelosi: Gingrich Will ‘Never’ Be President, ‘There Is Something I Know’Loading... Entertainment News »
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