Bill Moyers Returns to Accessible Television, but Not PBS

Bill Moyers says he is abiding to accessible television in January, but he won’t be begin on the PBS lineup.

His new hourlong account show, alleged “Moyers & Company,” will focus on one-on-one interviews with humans not generally heard on television, “thinkers who can advice us accept the anarchy of this time,” Mr. Moyers said in a blast interview. “We’re traveling to be anxious with the accompaniment of capitalism and the accompaniment of affairs, but we will leave the circadian and account adventure to others and try to do the aback story.”

The affairs will be based at WNET in New York City and advertisement chargeless to accessible television stations by American Accessible Television, an another benefactor to PBS. Stations will be able to advertisement it at whatever time they choose. In a letter to accessible television admiral announcement the new program, Mr. Moyers, who is 77, said that WNET was searching at assuming the affairs on Sundays at 6 p.m.

Earlier this year, Mr. Moyers, who retired from PBS in April 2010, said he had accustomed $2 actor in costs from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the new show, but PBS had told him it couldn’t acquisition an adapted time slot.

Since chat went out on Monday afternoon, Mr. Moyers said he had heard from a amount of stations that they were absorbed in broadcasting the program. He said he had aswell heard from abounding above admirers in contempo months. “There’s an admirers there that absent the campfire,” he said.

Anne Bentley, a PBS spokeswoman, said in a statement, “Bill Moyers has been a characteristic articulation on accessible television for decades,” abacus that his new activity “will body on this legacy.”