SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on just wrapped their second day of renewed talks over a new three-year contract with a plan to meet again on Friday and even further down the line.
15.09.2023 - 23:41 / deadline.com
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:
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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.
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SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on just wrapped their second day of renewed talks over a new three-year contract with a plan to meet again on Friday and even further down the line.
“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.
The creator of Netflix reality hit “Love Is Blind” is responding to a lawsuit by a cast member alleging “inhumane working conditions” in addition to recent complaints of two other cast members that their mental health needs were ignored, and they were deprived of food and water.
Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon will be flashing their smiles on the small screen in no time.
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.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Real Time with Bill Maher” is returning to HBO this Friday, a week later than originally planned. Maher delayed plans to bring back “Real Time” last week as the WGA and AMPTP resumed its negotiations — and rumblings of a resolution to the writers strike appeared to be in reach. Now, with the writers strike over and scribes able to return to work as of Wednesday, “Real Time” will become the first late night show to make the return after the daypart went silent in May (as the strike began).
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.
It is D-day in efforts to avoid strike action in Stirling’s schools as a union dispute threatens to close the doors next week.
writers strike, “Dancing With the Stars” is staying on track with plans to premiere a new season next week, Variety has learned. “Dancing With the Stars” employs a crew of 500 people, and has one WGA writer on staff. Sources close to production tell Variety that the show will be working in compliance with SAG-AFTRA rules, and a key focus is not to put talent in a tough spot, given that many Season 32 cast members are part of SAG-AFTRA.
Bill Maher is delaying the start of “Real Time”.
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.
Well, Jessica Fletcher was a professional writer. Why shouldn’t she have a presence on the WGA’s picket line?
Soap star Billy Miller was remembered today by his daytime drama colleagues for his talent, great humor, and his warm and charming personality.
Bill Maher has faced a lot of criticism after revealing that he was bringing Real Time back to HBO next week.
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.
Hollywood writer’s strike war rages on, Bill Maher just wants to get his check. The “Real Time with Bill Maher” host, 67, will return to HBO with his eponymous talk show without writers on Sept. 22.