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That or they’re certain this new project will never see the light of day because, well, hindsight. Needless to say, Apple TV+’s announcement has to be bittersweet for the cable giant who was never able to make anything happen while they had Stewart under contract. First on the slate was a short-form animated parody of a cable news channel that was originally scheduled to premiere in fall 2016, then in the first quarter of 2017, before ultimately being axed in May 2017 having never aired an episode.īut two months later, things were back on track with Stewart, as HBO announced that he would be producing his first stand-up special since 1996 for the network. In November 2015 it was announced that Stewart had signed a four-year digital development deal with HBO for their streaming services, including HBO NOW, HBO Go, and others. If the headlines trumpeting Stewart’s return to television feels familiar, there’s a good reason for it, namely that there have been similar headlines bouncing around for the last five years, but connected to HBO and not Apple TV+.
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Said episodes will “explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and advocacy work,” according to a news release from the platform earlier this week.Īnd while Stewart’s return to the airwaves might feel to some like a return to pre-Trump normalcy - the host’s tenure at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” ran from January 1999 until August 2015 - at the same time it feels like a potential misstep disguised as a safe bet, a blunder that the nearly year-old streamer seems particularly prone to. In a giant victory for liberals of a certain age Jon Stewart is returning to television via Apple TV+, hosting an “original current affairs series” that will span multiple seasons made up of hour-long episodes.