Brian Williams Returns: Former NBC News and MSNBC Anchor Launching Netflix Podcast

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Brian Williams is heading to Netflix.

The former NBC Nightly News and MSNBC 11th Hour late night anchor is launching a video podcast for the streaming giant, called We’re Back! With Brian Williams.

The podcast will see Williams interview newsmakers, actors, musicians, journalists and other prominent figures “in relaxed, wide-ranging exchanges about their work, their lives, and the moment we’re living through,” the platform says.

“With scientists predicting that every American will have a podcast by 2030, I thought it was time to get in the game,” Williams said in a statement. “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.”

Williams, of course, worked

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