Bill Maher is going back to work without his writers. Maher said on social media that Real Time with Bill Maher will return to HBO.
The show will return on Friday September 22 at 10pm. He becomes the first late-night host to return to air, although if the Strike Force Five podcast hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver is any indication, they will not be joining him anytime soon.
It’s a controversial move given that his show is written by a team of late-night writers, who are currently in the fourth month of their strike.
Other talk show hosts such as Drew Barrymore have faced ire from writers, while The Talk was picketed today at CBS Radford as they were doing a run-through.
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