Jon Stewart Will Be Returning with a News Show for Apple TV

Jon Stewart is returning with a new current events show on Apple TV.

Jon Stewart will soon have his own show again.

The former anchor of “The Daily Show” has reached a deal to host a current affairs series for Apple TV+, the company announced. The show will feature one-hour episodes, each dedicated to a single topic.https://t.co/aHMG8ItQAH

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According to CNN: The former anchor of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show will host a new current affairs series for the tech company’s nascent streaming service, Apple (AAPL) announced Tuesday. It will be a part of a new production deal that the comedian has signed with the company. It will be the first time that Stewart has had his own regular show since leaving The Daily Show in 2015.While details are scarce, Apple says Stewart’s hour-long as-yet-untitled series will “explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and his advocacy work.”

According to the New York Times: Away from the spotlight, Stewart has spent much of his time as a vocal activist for 9/11 first responders. Stewart struck a four-year production deal with HBO in 2015 that was supposed to lead to a new animated series from Stewart that would comment on current events. The project was scrapped in 2017.

“For Apple,” says The Hollywood Reporter, “nabbing Stewart’s Daily Show follow-up is a major coup. In his nearly two decades as host of the Comedy Central series, he earned 20 Emmys – including 10 consecutive outstanding variety series wins – and almost single-handedly redefined political satire in American culture. Though Stewart’s new entry won’t have a nightly or even weekly cadence, it’s poised to thrust Apple TV+ into the national dialogue in a richer way. In that effort, it joins another timely interviews series, The Oprah Conversation, at the streamer.”

Since Stewart’s much-ballyhooed Daily Show sign-0ff in 2015, he has kept a relatively low profile, save the occasional PR appearance for a new project or for his advocacy work on behalf of 9/11 first responders and the country’s wounded veterans. And until recently, he had had a long-term production deal at HBO, where he had a first-look deal and was quietly prepping a timely, animated shortform series, which he and HBO ultimately pulled the plug on for technical reasons. While sources say HBO made a play for Stewart’s latest on-air foray, the latter ultimately landed at Apple, where it’s expected to begin rolling out next year.