The show's guests haven't been disclosed, but Mr Assange has promised to give viewers more of what he's been supplying for years: controversy. The WikiLeaks secret-spilling site saidyesterday that "iconoclasts, visionaries and power insiders" would be brought in so that Mr Assange could challenge them on their vision of world affairs and "their ideas on how to secure a brighter future". The world of television talk shows is a new one for the 40-year-old Australian, whose group has orchestrated the biggest mass-disclosures of secret documents in US history. But the statement argued that Assange was uniquely qualified for the role given his past as "a pioneer for a more just world and a victim of political repression".
Might be watchable in a trainwreck kind of way. |