Brian Williams is heading to Netflix.
The former NBC Nightly News and MSNBC eleventh Hour late evening anchor is launching a video podcast for the streaming large, known as We’re Back! With Brian Williams.
The podcast will see Williams interview newsmakers, actors, musicians, journalists and different distinguished figures “in relaxed, wide-ranging exchanges about their work, their lives, and the moment we’re living through,” the platform says.
“With scientists predicting that every American will have a podcast by 2030, I thought it was time to get in the game,” Williams mentioned in an announcement. “After 40 years in the news business, where an in-depth interview gets 4 minutes of airtime at best, I just want to have interesting conversations with creative, funny, smart, talented, and consequential people — like the shows we all grew up watching and listening to. Netflix is the perfect home.”
Williams, in fact, labored at NBC for almost three a long time, together with an 11-year run at NBC Nightly News that ended 2015 after exaggerations and falsehoods had been present in a few of his reporting, together with studies from Iraq, and from New Orleans after it had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
However, he moved to MSNBC not lengthy after, the place he created and led The eleventh Hour, which stays a stalwart of that channel’s lineup (now known as MS NOW, and shortly to be anchored by Ali Velshi). He left the company on the finish of 2021.
In 2024, he anchored a live election special for Amazon Prime Video, marking a return to TV information, although the Netflix podcast will supply a extra common cadence for the newsman.
The podcast will probably be govt produced by Jonathan Wald, who preciously labored with Williams at NBC and govt produced the Amazon particular. A launch date continues to be TBD.
