Brian Williams Signs On To Netflix To Host A Weekly Podcast

Brian Williams, nan seasoned erstwhile anchor for NBC News and MSNBC, is joining Netflix wherever he will big a play podcast.

Netflix announced Thursday that “We’re Back! With Brian Williams” will debut later this year. The format will characteristic Williams successful extended interviews pinch popular civilization figures and newsmakers successful a casual setting.

“With scientists predicting that each American will person a podcast by 2030, I thought it was clip to get successful nan game,” Williams said successful a statement.

Williams - agelong a stalwart of accepted TV news - will beryllium nan biggest sanction from that arena to subordinate a awesome video streaming platform.

Williams has been disconnected TV since he departed MSNBC (now MS NOW) successful 2021. He nan anchor of nan nightly programme “The 11th Hour” and handled awesome breaking news sum for nan network.

Before joining MSNBC successful 2015, Williams spent 10 years arsenic anchor of “NBC Nightly News.” He near nan broadcast aft being suspended for making mendacious statements astir his experiences covering nan Iraq war.

Williams tested nan streaming waters erstwhile he anchored extended sum of nan statesmanlike predetermination successful 2024 connected Amazon Prime Video. While Amazon was said to beryllium pleased pinch nan program, which earned an Emmy, but nan institution has made nary further committedness to unrecorded news programming.

“We’re Back!” will apt stress nan playful broadside of Williams, who erstwhile hosted “Saturday Night Live” during his NBC years. He occasionally told colleagues he harbored a desire to go a precocious nighttime talk show big aliases a forum wherever he could activity successful a much conversational style.

“After 40 years successful nan news business whee an in-depth question and reply gets 4 minutes of airtime astatine best, I conscionable want to person absorbing conversations pinch creative, funny, smart, talented and consequential group - for illustration nan shows we each grew up watching and listening to,” he said. “Netflix is nan cleanable home.”

jonathan Wald, a seasoned TV news executive who worked pinch Williams astatine NBC and MSNBC, will beryllium nan executive shaper for “We’re Back!”

Netflix has moved aggressively into nan podcast business. Sports columnist Bill Simmons, who helped popularize nan format, precocious moved his podcasts to nan level successful January arsenic portion of a woody pinch Spotify. Currently Netflix is carrying 51 video podcasts.