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.
“My writers and Real Time are back! See you Friday Night!,” Maher wrote on X.
The news comes after the WGA Negotiating Committee, the Wgaw Board and Wgae Council all voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend the tentative agreement the studios, which was sent to the guild’s membership for a ratification vote. The strike was to officially end at 12:01 a.m. Pt Wednesday.
Related: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Could Return Next Month; Casting Still To Be Determined As NBC Show Set To Lean Into Non-Acting Hosts
Maher initially planned to bring his late-night show back “sans writers” on Sept. 22, saying that it was “time to bring people back to work”. He made the announcement Sept.
“My writers and Real Time are back! See you Friday Night!,” Maher wrote on X.
The news comes after the WGA Negotiating Committee, the Wgaw Board and Wgae Council all voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend the tentative agreement the studios, which was sent to the guild’s membership for a ratification vote. The strike was to officially end at 12:01 a.m. Pt Wednesday.
Related: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Could Return Next Month; Casting Still To Be Determined As NBC Show Set To Lean Into Non-Acting Hosts
Maher initially planned to bring his late-night show back “sans writers” on Sept. 22, saying that it was “time to bring people back to work”. He made the announcement Sept.
- 9/27/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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