‘Power’ Creator Courtney Kemp Calls On Cast, Scribes, Crew To “Screw Up Bill Maher’s Day” Next Week

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Bill Maher loves to talk politics, but the Real Time host may be about to get a lesson in how real Power works. Two days after WGA member Maher declared he was bringing back his HBO show despite the ongoing scribes’ strike, Power creator Courtney Kemp revealed she plans to flick the franchise switch on the comedian next week. “Tuesday, September 19 10-a-12pm the Power Universe is canceling Christmas at CBS Television City!” Kemp wrote on Instagram this afternoon using the line about the holidays she coined for Joseph Sikora’s Tommy Egan character years ago. “Come out and really screw up Bill Maher’s Day!” – as you can see below: A post shared by COURTNEY KEMP (@courtneyakemp) In fact, Maher may get roasted on the East Coast as well where Drew Barrymore has been picketed by her own writers and others for starting up her CBS talk show this week Soon after Kemp put up her post about protesting Maher’s taping at CBS TV City in LA, Electric Company and Power vet Dominic Colon asked the EP “if you want me to organize a NYC one.” Kemp replied “absolutely!” almost instantly.

Buoyed up by a hardcore fanbase from the jump over the six-season run of the original Power on Starz from 2014 to 2020, the self-proclaimed Powerverse has spawn a series of spinoffs in Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book II: Raising Kanan, and the Sikora-led Power Book IV: Force.

In the process of putting a fourth season together when the WGA went on its first strike in 15 years on May 2, the Michael Rainey-led Ghost wrapped up its third season on May 23.

A high-profile target for WGA East members seeking to shut down shows still in production, Ghost finally pulled the plug on Season 4 when SAG-AFTRA went out on strike themselves on July 14.