MOSCOW - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, under house arrest in the UK, will host a television talk show on an English-language channel controlled by the Kremlin, the Russian broadcaster RT said.

"The World Tomorrow" will debut in March and be based on interviews Assange conducts with 10 "key political players, thinkers and revolutionaries," the broadcaster formerly known as Russia Today said in a statement.

Assange was arrested in London in December 2010 over sexual assault allegations in Sweden. The charges were made after WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy website, was condemned by US authorities for posting thousands of classified military and diplomatic communications.

The 40-year-old Australian native is accused of failing to use a condom in one incident and of having sex with a woman who was sleeping in another, charges he has called "absurd" and politically motivated. The UK Supreme Court is due in February to consider his appeal against extradition, which a lower court denied in November.

"Filming commences a week before his Supreme Court hearing," RT said. The half-hour show will air exclusively on RT, said Ksenia Bregadze, a Moscow-based spokeswoman for the company. RT's network includes English, Spanish and Arabic news broadcasts that can reach as many as 430 million people, according to its website.

WikiLeaks announced the project in a statement on its website dated Jan. 23 that didn't identify its partners, saying only that "initial licensing commitments cover over 600 million viewers across cable, satellite and terrestrial" networks.

"Through this series I will explore the possibilities for our future in conversations with those who are shaping it," Assange said in the WikiLeaks statement. "Are we heading towards utopia, or dystopia and how we can set our paths?" BLOOMBERG