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'Nightly Show' host says he'll be himself

Larry Wilmore says that his new "Nightly Show" launching on Comedy Central later this month will be like a hybrid of "The Daily Show" and "Politically Incorrect," combining comic observations and a topical panel discussion.

Wilmore's half-hour show, which will air at 11:30 p.m. on weeknights following Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," is replacing "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert headed to CBS. Unlike the star of "The Colbert Report," Wilmore will be himself, and not play a character.

"It may be comic, it may be provocative," Wilmore told reporters at a television conference on Saturday. "Who knows? It will go where it goes."

Celebrities will be part of the mix, "but they won't be hawking books and movies," he said. He'll begin test shows next week in anticipation of a Jan. 19 premiere.

Wilmore, 53, is a comic veteran with extensive experience both onstage and behind the scenes, most recently developing the ABC comedy "black-ish." He's known to Comedy Central viewers as the "senior black correspondent" on "The Daily Show." He jumped at the chance for the new show when Stewart suggested it, somewhat surprised at his age to be getting the opportunity.

Starting his show on Martin Luther King Day, Wilmore joked that "I had a dream that a brother needed to work on that day." Truthfully, he said there was no special significance to the launch date, just that it made sense to begin on a Monday when "The Daily Show" has a fresh show preceding it.

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Meanwhile, CBS says that Colbert will begin as host of the "Late Show" on Sept. 8.

The network's entertainment chief, Nina Tassler, on Monday announced Colbert's debut. Last month CBS said that David Letterman's last show before his retirement will be broadcast on May 20.

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A series of tweets by media mogul Rupert Murdoch in the wake of the Paris attacks has caused a wave of controversy, with high-profile critics such as author J.K. Rowling stepping in to dismiss his viewpoint.

"Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible," Murdoch had tweeted, using anantiquated and politically incorrect spelling for Muslims. "Big jihadist danger looming everywhere from Philippines to Africa to Europe to US. Political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy."

Now Murdoch's comments have drawn the ire of Turkish Prime MinisterAhmet Davutoglu, according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet. Davutoglu reportedly said that the News Corp chief executive's comments reminded him of the logic used byNazi Germany.

This understanding of collective crime is the reason for the emergence of theNazimovement,Davutoglusaid Tuesday as he returned from Paris.We believe that people are innocent at birth. No matter which religion they are from, they are innocent."

Murdoch has a number of business interests in Turkey, includinga branch of his television channel Fox. However, the billionaire has a habit of making comments that prompt anger in the Muslim and Arab world including suggesting that Muslims"find it hardest" to integrate or that Egyptians were "white." This puts him at odds with Davutoglu and PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan's pro-Islam nationalist government.

Erdogan himself stepped into controversy on Monday when he said he couldn't understand how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could attend the Sunday march in Paris when he had committed"state terrorism by massacring 2,500 people in Gaza"

An earlier version of the headline on this article incorrectly said that the Turkish premier had likened a Murdoch tweet to Nazi collective punishment. It has been changed.

Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Originally from London, he studied at the University of Manchester and Columbia University.

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