Fareed Zakaria Gets CNN Chat Show
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CNN is starting a weekly talk show on international issues led by Newsweek’s Fareed Zakaria that will make its debut next Sunday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who left office last June, as an interview subject.
“Fareed Zakaria — GPS,” which stands for “global public square,” will air Sundays at 1 p.m. and be rebroadcast at a yet-to-be-determined time on CNN International.
CNN U.S. chief Jonathan Klein approached Mr. Zakaria about a year ago and was told that “the only show I want to do is one that fills in the huge gaping hole in American television, which is 95 percent of the rest of the world,” Mr. Zakaria said in an interview with the Associated Press on Monday.
Mr. Zakaria, a columnist and editor of Newsweek International, wrote the just-published book, “The Post-American World.”
