Netflix teases new David Letterman series, shows Obama as the show’s first guest

For a show aptly titled My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, the former CBS Late Show host certainly choose a prominent figure to be his first guest. The “monthly Netflix event” will have as its first get former US President Barack Obama, making this his first TV talk show interview after his presidency. The first hour-long episode airs on January 12 with the service streaming a new episode each month in 2018.

This series has a lot of firsts going for it. This is also Letterman’s first time back hosting after his retirement from the CBS talk show and it follows a rather unusual format for Netflix in its “anti-binge roll-out” as Entertainment Weekly calls it. Some of the other big names you can expect include George Clooney, Tina Fey, Howard Stern, JAY-Z, and Malala Yousafzai.