Bill Maher Plans To Bring Back 'Real Time' Without Writers Amid Strike

Bill Maher is making a big decision amid the WGA strike and choosing to return to his late night talk show, Real Time with Bill Maher – without writers.

The 67-year-old made his statement on social media, revealing his reasons for why.

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“Real Time is coming back, unfortunately, sans writers or writing,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

He continued on, “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. Despite some assistance from me, much of the staff is struggling mightily. We all were hopeful this would come to an end after Labor Day, but that day has come and gone, and there still seems to be nothing happening.”

“I love my writers, I am one of them, but I’m not prepared to lose an entire year and see so many below-the-line people suffer so much,” Bill admitted.

He also stated that he would “honor the spirit of the strike by not doing a monologue, desk piece, New Rules or editorial, the written pieces that I am so proud of on Real Time.”

“I will be doing [this] without my writers [and it] will not be as good as our normal show, full stop,” Bill says. “But the heart of the show is an off-the-cuff panel discussion that aims to cut through the bullshit and predictable partisanship, and that will continue. The show will not disappoint.”

Bill‘s decision and statement comes just after Drew Barrymore drew criticism over her own return to the daytime talk space.