Emmy-winning writer producer, director and “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart will return to television with a new one-hour, multi-season current affairs series for Apple TV+ that will focus on current national issues and topics aligned with his social activist work for wounded veterans, first responders, and others. He will also create a companion podcast to the series.
Stewart’s deal with the streaming service includes a first-look production deal for other projects he will develop and produce through his company, Busboy Productions.
Stewart and “The Daily Show” received two Peabody Awards and a collective 56 Emmy Award nominations, winning 20 times. Their 10 consecutive wins for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series represent the category’s longest streak in Emmy Awards history. He hosted the Emmys in 2001 and 2002 and the Academy Awards in 2006 and 2008.
Stewart wrote, directed, and produced his debut feature “Rosewater” in 2014, and most recently directed Steve Carell and Rose Byrne in “Irresistible,” released in June of this year.
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