The Problem With Jon Stewart (Apple TV+) -- premieres 10/1/21
04-07-21 | 04:05 PM
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The Problem With Jon Stewart (Apple TV+) -- premieres 10/1/21
Apple TV+ today revealed the title of the highly anticipated new current affairs series from acclaimed host, writer, producer and director Jon Stewart. “The Problem with Jon Stewart” will launch on Apple TV+ this fall 2021 and will be the first project hailing from a multi-year partnership with Stewart.
The new, original current affairs series marks Stewart’s return to television since his 20-time Emmy Award-winning run on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” came to a close in 2015.
“The Problem with Jon Stewart” is a multiple season, one-hour, single-issue series which will explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and his advocacy work. Each season of the series will be further explored in a companion podcast to continue the discussion.
The show will be hosted and executive produced by Stewart through his Busboy Productions. The series is executive produced by showrunner Brinda Adhikari, Stewart’s longtime manager James Dixon, and Richard Plepler through his EDEN Productions, which has an exclusive overall production deal with Apple. Chelsea Devantez is head writer and Lorrie Baranek is the executive in charge of production.
Apple TV+ has also partnered with Stewart and his production company, Busboy Productions, on a first-look deal on projects to be produced and developed for the service.
Stewart joins an expanding roster of powerful storytellers at Apple TV+, including Oprah Winfrey, Malala Yousafzai, Idris Elba, Alfonso Cuaron, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kerry Ehrin, Moshe Zonder, Alon Aranya, Jason Katims, Lee Eisenberg, Monica Beletsky, Tracy Oliver, Sharon Horgan, Alena Smith and Simon Kinberg. To date, Apple has also landed overall and first-look deals with internationally recognized and acclaimed production companies including Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions; Appian Way, the film and television production company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and co-run by Jennifer Davisson; Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures; Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions; A24 and Imagine Documentaries.
The new, original current affairs series marks Stewart’s return to television since his 20-time Emmy Award-winning run on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” came to a close in 2015.
“The Problem with Jon Stewart” is a multiple season, one-hour, single-issue series which will explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and his advocacy work. Each season of the series will be further explored in a companion podcast to continue the discussion.
The show will be hosted and executive produced by Stewart through his Busboy Productions. The series is executive produced by showrunner Brinda Adhikari, Stewart’s longtime manager James Dixon, and Richard Plepler through his EDEN Productions, which has an exclusive overall production deal with Apple. Chelsea Devantez is head writer and Lorrie Baranek is the executive in charge of production.
Apple TV+ has also partnered with Stewart and his production company, Busboy Productions, on a first-look deal on projects to be produced and developed for the service.
Stewart joins an expanding roster of powerful storytellers at Apple TV+, including Oprah Winfrey, Malala Yousafzai, Idris Elba, Alfonso Cuaron, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kerry Ehrin, Moshe Zonder, Alon Aranya, Jason Katims, Lee Eisenberg, Monica Beletsky, Tracy Oliver, Sharon Horgan, Alena Smith and Simon Kinberg. To date, Apple has also landed overall and first-look deals with internationally recognized and acclaimed production companies including Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions; Appian Way, the film and television production company founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and co-run by Jennifer Davisson; Idris Elba’s Green Door Pictures; Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions; A24 and Imagine Documentaries.
04-07-21 | 05:41 PM
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The world needs more Jon Stewart!
I stopped watching The Daily Show after Stewart left. It just wasn’t the same.
I stopped watching The Daily Show after Stewart left. It just wasn’t the same.
08-30-21 | 08:05 AM
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The Problem with Jon Stewart premieres September 30 on Apple TV+
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the world's problems. It's harder to pinpoint the systems responsible for creating them. In this series, Jon Stewart brings together people impacted by different parts of a problem to discuss one big question: How do we come up with change?
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the world's problems. It's harder to pinpoint the systems responsible for creating them. In this series, Jon Stewart brings together people impacted by different parts of a problem to discuss one big question: How do we come up with change?
10-01-21 | 09:17 AM
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Re: The Problem With Jon Stewart (Apple TV+) -- premieres 10/1/21
The first episode of this is up.
10-01-21 | 09:22 AM
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10-01-21 | 09:46 AM
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Apparently he's moving toward a 60 minutes "this is a serious subject" tone away from his Daily Show satirical spin.
10-01-21 | 02:55 PM
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I liked the first episode overall, but I found the interview with the Secretary of VA frustrating. It seemed like they were talking past each other, and the writer's room clip showing that Stewart was anticipating bullshit from the Secretary made it look like much of the blame should be put on Stewart. From what I could infer, the Secretary was saying that he was bound by the rules that are established by law. He can't just automatically start covering these veterans' cancers and other conditions until they can establish a link and meet certain key thresholds. He didn't seem to have those specific thresholds memorized, at which point the interview should've cut to a different interview with someone who did know them. But instead, Stewart was just acting like the Secretary was being evasive. And then the Secretary should've said that the only way to change this, other than doing more research to meet those thresholds (which may never work out, just by the nature of these kinds of diseases) is to change the law. But there was no discussion at all about changing or passing new laws. I thought that in the panel discussion the couple on the left and their lobbying group were pushing for just this kind of thing, but that was never linked together. Just seemed like there was plenty of time to go a bit more in-depth into this and the show just didn't bother. But it's a first episode so whatever. I laughed enough times to make it worth watching.
10-15-21 | 09:01 PM
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I watched the second one this morning.
Wondering if this show might be a little too heavy while at the same time not really being much more then fluff.
We have shows like Last Week Tonight which can do this seriously but also make us laugh out loud from one sentence to the next, similar with The Daily Show so This Jon Stewart show has a tough hill to climb.
He looks like he’s trying to bring attention to a serious matter and that’s good but Stewart needs to do something to make the subject interesting.
With the first two main stories I haven’t felt anything. I haven’t felt like I learned anything.
Last week John Oliver did a piece on Teflon and frankly it scared the crap outta me.
These two Stewart eps didn’t have any affect on me at all.
Wondering if this show might be a little too heavy while at the same time not really being much more then fluff.
We have shows like Last Week Tonight which can do this seriously but also make us laugh out loud from one sentence to the next, similar with The Daily Show so This Jon Stewart show has a tough hill to climb.
He looks like he’s trying to bring attention to a serious matter and that’s good but Stewart needs to do something to make the subject interesting.
With the first two main stories I haven’t felt anything. I haven’t felt like I learned anything.
Last week John Oliver did a piece on Teflon and frankly it scared the crap outta me.
These two Stewart eps didn’t have any affect on me at all.
10-18-21 | 01:03 PM
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Re: The Problem With Jon Stewart (Apple TV+) -- premieres 10/1/21
I thought the second one (freedom) was much better than the first (burn pits). I just think the show needs to find its feet.
10-21-21 | 12:24 PM
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I get that he wants to dive into topics like this and I have no problem with him getting away from an overtly comedic show, but his voice would be great for a show dedicated at least partly to the moment.
10-20-23 | 12:17 PM
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Canceled, and not for the reason that you might expect.
10-20-23 | 12:27 PM
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Probably much more to do with China than AI. Apple themselves goes out of their way to never say AI or artificial intelligence during their product announcements. Regardless, good for Jon.
10-20-23 | 02:01 PM
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Yeah that's one topic/bridge you can't really cross with a company that uses China as much as Apple. Good on Jon though.
10-20-23 | 03:07 PM
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I kind of wonder if MAX will reach out to Jon Stewart? Say what you will about Warners, but they've never tried to censor either John Oliver or Bill Maher. It would seem like the logical platform for a new show.
10-20-23 | 07:58 PM
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10-22-23 | 11:14 AM
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Agreed. I lost a lot of respect for Apple when I read this. Tim Cook can suck Chinas cock for the next 10 years but they will never be seen as a place for creatives to go to produce content if they send this kind of message out.
Hope Apple thinks it was worth it 10 years from now when China has collapsed and there is no more market for there to buy iPhones. He should have pivoted to India and Vietnam a lot earlier.
Hope Apple thinks it was worth it 10 years from now when China has collapsed and there is no more market for there to buy iPhones. He should have pivoted to India and Vietnam a lot earlier.
10-22-23 | 01:59 PM
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Good that he left. He is the one who needs to uphold integrity, not apple.
I already know how my iPhone is made. I don’t need to learn that Jon is a corporate shill journalist.
I already know how my iPhone is made. I don’t need to learn that Jon is a corporate shill journalist.
10-22-23 | 02:02 PM
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Also, when Apple took on a news show, they should have realized they might have to start handing them notes, and then just said no. By doing this, I hope that news is off the table for them from now on. Lessons learned I suppose.
Also what do we call these show? Not news. It’s?
Also what do we call these show? Not news. It’s?
10-22-23 | 02:30 PM
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It's a talk/talk variety show, like late night talk shows, John Oliver, Bill Maher and everything primetime on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.
News programs generally either do just news (World News Tonight) or investigative pieces
News programs generally either do just news (World News Tonight) or investigative pieces
