Late-night will coming back.
05.09.2023 - 19:41 / variety.com
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Bill Maher criticized the WGA strike during a discussion with comedian Jim Gaffigan on the “Club Random” podcast. Maher, whose HBO talk show “Real Time” ended its most recent season in April just ahead of the WGA strike, shared his thoughts after Gaffigan noted the strike might kill late night television for good. “They’re asking for a lot of things that are, like, kooky,” Maher said about the WGA.
“What I find objectionable about the philosophy of the strike [is] it seems to be, they have really morphed a long way from 2007’s strike, where they kind of believe that you’re owed a living as a writer, and you’re not. This is show business. This is the make-or-miss league.” The WGA strike started in May and hit the 100-day mark last month.
Maher said he agreed with the guild regarding streaming platforms having to report viewership data. “I feel for my writers. I love my writers.
I’m one of my writers. But there’s a big other side to it,” Maher also said. “And a lot of people are being hurt besides them — a lot of people who don’t make as much money as them in this bipartisan world we have where you’re just in one camp or the other, there’s no in between.
You’re either for the strike like they’re fucking Che Guevara out there, you know, like, this is Cesar Chavez’s lettuce picking strike — or you’re with Trump. There’s no difference — there’s only two camps. And it’s much more complicated than that.” Maher claimed the streamers had already been “looking for a get out of jail card for how much they overspend,” noting the Hollywood strikes solved that issue for them as they’ve brought production to a halt.
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.
There was more trouble for Dancing with the Stars after it faced its second picket line of the day.
The writers are waltzing after Dancing with the Stars after all.
Howard Stern’s friendship with Bill Maher is seemingly over.
This is Day 141 of the WGA strike and Day 68 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
Bill Maher is delaying the start of “Real Time”.
After Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher, Jennifer Hudson and The Talk reversed course on premiering their talk shows, some WGA members are now focusing on Dancing with the Stars and questioning why the dance competition is moving forward with its Sept. 26 return to ABC.
As Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher reverse their decisions to return to their talk shows, Sherri Shepherd is gearing up for her return.
The writers and the studios are set to sit down to resume negotiations on Wednesday.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Bill Maher has decided to stop the clock on the return of “Real Time.” The comedian, who last week vowed to put his topical HBO program back into production, now says he will delay it for a while longer. “My decision to return to work was made when it seemed nothing was happening and there was no end in sight to this strike,” he said via social media.
Bill Maher is the latest host to postpone his return to work.
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.
Well, Jessica Fletcher was a professional writer. Why shouldn’t she have a presence on the WGA’s picket line?
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.