Bill Maher Delays Start of ‘Real Time,’ Citing Strike Negotiations

Bill Maher was off television for five months, thanks to the WGA strike. So naturally, he had a lot to catch up on in Friday’s edition of Real Time on HBO.

“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year.

William Earl Bill Maher returned to the airwaves with HBO’s “Real Time” for the first time since the strike with only mild praise for the Writers Guild of America for settling the five-month strike. Season 21 of “Real Tiime with Bill Maher” became the first of TV’s prominent late-night talk shows to return to the airwaves after the conclusion of the 148-day work stoppage.

Not wasting any time, just a couple of minutes after the WGA announced that the strike is ending, Bill Maher revealed that his Real Time will return this week. It will be the first late-night show to come back.

Late-night will coming back.

Howard Stern is once again under attack by former celebrity friends. This time, it’s Donald Trump, who today said the self-described “King of All Media” was a “broken weirdo” who “went woke.”

he wasn’t good anymore because the 69-year-old is “woke.”“I hear that a lot that I’m not good anymore because I’m woke,” said Stern according to a report by the news site Mediaite.“By the way, I kind of take that as a compliment, that I’m woke,” he said. “I’ll tell you how I feel about it. To me the opposite of woke, is being asleep.”“And if woke means I can’t get behind Trump, which is what I think it means, or that I support people who want to be transgender or I’m for the vaccine, dude, call me woke as you f—— want,” Stern said in the rant.“I am woke, motherf—–, and I love it.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Howard Stern and Bill Maher are “no longer friends,” according to Stern. The SiriusXM radio host told listeners (via Entertainment Weekly) that Maher made a “sexist” comment involving Stern’s first wife and “was actually dumping on me” during an episode of Maher’s “Club Random” podcast. “He took a big shot at me,” Stern said.

Howard Stern’s friendship with Bill Maher is seemingly over.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A prominent TV reporter walks into a bar… A handful of the news anchors at MSNBC (yes, there are some left!) recently held a dinner to welcome Ana Cabrera, the former CNN journalist, to the network, where she has taken the reins of its 10 a.m. hour. Chris Jansing and Katy Tur, familiar faces to MSNBC viewers, were holding court, but Andrea Mitchell, a legendary Washington correspondent who has anchored an early afternoon show on MSNBC since 2008, was missing, due to making an appearance at Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday.

Bill Maher is delaying the start of “Real Time”.

The writers and the studios are set to sit down to resume negotiations on Wednesday.

Bill Maher is the latest host to postpone his return to work.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor “Monday Night Football” was for many years a staple of ABC’s Monday-night line-up before it moved to ESPN in 2006. This fall, it will be so again. ABC will air ten more “MNF” games than previously expected this season, simulcasting then with Disney TV sibling ESPN in a move that will help the broadcast network as the industry grapples with ongoing strikes by WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

This week, the big story is a presumed return to talks between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the striking Writers Guild of America. May things go well.

Bill Maher loves to talk politics, but the Real Time host may be about to get a lesson in how real Power works.

Bill Maher has faced a lot of criticism after revealing that he was bringing Real Time back to HBO next week.

As this seemingly endless Hollywood-hobbling strike hits week 20, Billy Ray seeks input from two veterans of the business – a vet TV exec, Peter Aronson, and a columnist, The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield — on how we got to this point and what needs to happen to get people working again. Among the points covered: how the AMPTP’S decision to chase the Netflix streaming model has had calamitous results, the high price of the signatory’s PR false messaging, and what has to happen in next week’s resumption of talks to get Hollywood back to work. Things are getting desperate — Bill Maher & Drew Barrymore are getting flamed on social media for resuming their shows, sans writers. Their reasoning; after five months without a paycheck waiting for the guilds and studios to make a deal, employees on those shows who are not members of the guilds are starving.

Keith Olbermann cursed out comedian Bill Maher after the HBO host said he would bring his show back amid the writers strike.Olbermann took to social media platform X Thursday to say, “F— you, Bill,” after Maher announced he would continue producing and airing episodes of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher” while writers are still on strike against major industry studios.Maher made the announcement Wednesday on the platform, stating, “Real Time is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing. It has been five months, and it is time to bring people back to work.”He added, “The writers have important issues that I sympathize with, and hope they are addressed to their satisfaction, but they are not the only people with issues, problems, and concerns.

Several talk shows are planning their returns despite the ongoing SAG-AFTRA/WGA strikes.