Scandal-scarred ex-NBC anchor Brian Williams to – Business News
Brian Williams — the scandal-scarred former “NBC Nightly News” and “MSNBC 11th Hour” anchor — is teaming up with Netflix.
Williams will launch a video podcast for the streaming giant known as, “We’re Back! With Brian Williams,” which can embrace interviews with newsmakers, actors, musicians, journalists and different outstanding figures on “their work, lives and the moment we’re living through,” Netflix stated.
It didn’t announce a release date for the show.
Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams is launching a podcast with Netflix. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP
“With scientists predicting that every American will have a podcast by 2030, I thought it was time to get in the game,” Williams stated in a assertion.
“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,” he added.
The deal marks a renewed tried for Williams to return to the highlight after he was ousted from NBC News in 2015 over exaggerations and falsehoods that have been present in some of his reporting — together with tales from Iraq and from New Orleans after it was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The Post’s cowl in 2015 after Williams was suspended for his lies. Soon after, NBC ousted the anchor.
Williams labored at NBC for almost three a long time, together with an 11-year run at “NBC Nightly News.” After his fall from grace, he moved to the Peacock Network’s then-sister outlet MSNBC, now known as MS Now, to anchor “The 11th Hour” from 2016 to 2021, ending out his contract.
He returned to the small screen for one evening in 2024 to anchor a stay election particular for Amazon Prime Video.
Williams’ Netflix deal marks a more regular gig for the previous anchor, who left MSNBC in 2021. Michael Sofronski for NY Post
Thursday’s Netflix announcement appeared to signal a steadier gig for the previous anchor.
The podcast can be government produced by Jonathan Wald, who produced the Amazon particular and beforehand labored with Williams at NBC, Netflix stated.
