‘Actual Time With Invoice Maher’ Returning to Air With out Writers Amid Strike

Actual Time With Invoice Maher is returning to the air, however with out its writers.

“Actual Time is coming again, sadly, sans writers or writing,” the eponymous host announced on Twitter on Wednesday. “It has been 5 months, and it’s time to carry individuals again to work. The writers have necessary points that I sympathize with, and hope they’re addressed to their satisfaction, however they aren’t the one individuals with points, issues, and issues.”

Maher went on to say “a lot of the workers is struggling mightily” and that although he appreciates his writers, “I’m not ready to lose a complete yr and see so many below-the-line individuals undergo a lot.”

The HBO present will return on Friday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. PT and not using a pre-written monologue, desk piece, “New Guidelines” phase or editorial segments, Maher continued.

“And I’ll say it upfront to the viewers: the present I will likely be doing with out my writers won’t be pretty much as good as our regular present, full cease,” Maher continued. “However the coronary heart of the present is an informal panel dialogue that goals to chop by way of the bullshit and predictable partisanship, and that may proceed. The present won’t disappoint.”

The Writers Guild of America stated in a press release, “The Guild has, and can proceed to, picket struck exhibits which can be in manufacturing throughout the strike.”

The choice to renew manufacturing of Actual Time comes amid a flurry of daytime discuss exhibits restarting with out scribes because the writers’ and actors’ strikes drag on. The Drew Barrymore Present went first, drawing a crowd of picketers on Monday when it resumed taping in New York. That very same day, three different exhibits  — The Speak, The Jennifer Hudson Present and Sherri — introduced that they might return to the air. On Wednesday, a rehearsal taping for The Speak drew a bunch of about 50 WGA picketers.

Actual Time is the primary main late-night sequence to return to the air because the work stoppages proceed, following within the footsteps of late-night hosts like Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno, who resumed their exhibits sans writers throughout the 2007-8 strike. As for now, Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, The Late Present With Stephen Coblert, The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night time With Seth Meyers are all nonetheless darkish.

The WGA has now been on strike for 135 days, whereas SAG-AFTRA has been withholding its labor for 61 days. Amid the strikes, which have shut down the lion’s share of manufacturing in Hollywood, the leisure trade shed 17,000 jobs in August alone, per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a few trade members are going through the specter of eviction. Crew union-organized meals banks have served hundreds, with no finish date but in sight.