Multiple Talk Shows Cross Picket Line Despite Strike Rules, Union Vows to Protest
Talk show host Bill Maher, who ignites controversy for a living, did it again Wednesday by announcing that his HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” would be returning despite the weeks-long writers’ strike.
“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. 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,” Maher wrote in a post on X.
He is not alone.
According to The New York Times, Drew Barrymore announced this week that she was returning to tape new shows.
