Stewart willl produce digital content and give HBO a first-look option at TV and film projects
Jon Stewart's post-"Daily Show" tenure as gentleman farmer is over. The comedian has struck a four-year production deal with HBO for short-form digital content and possibly other film and TV ventures, HBO announced Tuesday.
The digital content will focus on Stewart's take on current events and will be featured on HBO NOW, the channel's subscription video on demand service that bypasses cable television entirely, and HBO GO, the on-demand streaming service for HBO subscribers.
"Appearing on television 22 minutes a night clearly broke me," Stewart says in the announcement. "I'm pretty sure I can produce a few minutes of content every now and again."
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Since turning over "The Daily Show" to Trevor Noah earlier this year, the former Comedy Central star has kept a low-profile, making news only when he and his animal activist wife Tracey announced they would turn their 12-acre farm in Middletown into sanctuary for rescued farm animals.
Stewart has worked with HBO before, notably on a 1996 standup special "Jon Stewart: Unleavened." The channel is also home to Stewart's "Daily Show" protege, John Oliver, who headlines "Last Week Tonight."
From Stewart's 1997 HBO special:
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