For those of us who have been missing the voice of actor Michael Douglas, now we have the chance to hear him every night as the announcer of Brain Williams on the “Nightly News” on NBC.

The Academy award winner was been chosen to replace Howard Reig, the voice of “Nightly News” for decades, who retired two years ago but his taped voice had been used ever since.  Douglas’ voice was heard for the first time on Monday.

"I appealed to Michael's sense of romance and sentimentality and his love of the industry. I called him and said, `On top of all you've done as an actor, producer and Academy Award winner, this will mean a small slice of immortality in our industry. It also means wherever you are on Earth, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, you'll know your voice is on the air,'" Williams said Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.

The network television has not released any statement about how the decision has been made.

Douglas will compete, in this new position, with actor James Earl Jones who also introduces “This is CNN” for Cable News Network.

The 63-year-old actor, known from famous movies such as “Fatal Attraction,” “Basic Instinct,” “Traffic” and “Romancing the Stone,” is a stout sustainer of the Democratic Party and of Hillary Clinton for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. He also narrates films about social and political issues like U.N. documentaries about Sierra Leone.

Besides nightly “appearance” on NBC, Douglas is rumored to be reprising the role in the 2009 sequel, “Money Never Sleeps.”