After a nearly two year hiatus, journalist Bill Moyers will return to television this weekend with a new show called Moyers & Company. His previous show, Bill Moyers’ Journal, ended in 2010.
According to the show’s new website at BillMoyers.com, the show will be focused on the role of democracy in society and stipulates it will “be a political series, but not a partisan one.”
The New York Times profiled the septuagenarian journalist over the weekend and gave a sense of the show’s scope as well as a sampling of the guest list:
Aided by 30 employees (just over half that of “Journal”), Mr. Moyers has banked interviews in recent weeks with the former Reagan budget chief David Stockman, the former Citibank chief executive John S. Reed and the poet Rita Dove (with whom he read “The Hill” by Edgar Lee Masters). He also held a marathon four-hour chat with the political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of “Winner-Take-All Politics,” which he called “the most important book I’ve read” since ending the old show; it will provide the backbone for his first three episodes.
Though he originally planned to use his “retirement” to work on a focused documentary project on the President for whom he once worked, Lyndon B. Johnson, he ultimately decided, as the Times reported, that “today is more interesting than yesterday.”
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