The Writers Guild of America promised to picket “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the first late-night show to announce a return amid the WGA strike.
studios from using their scripts to train AI systems and to establish a viewership-based residual system for streaming shows, among other issues.Five major late-night talk hosts — Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel — have kept their shows dark while producing a regular podcast called “Strike Force Five,” which they say raises money for their staffs.
But Maher’s decision on the heels of Barrymore’s could show that support is beginning to crack, leading some to wonder whether others may follow suit.“If he goes forward with his plan, he needs to honor more than ‘the spirit of the strike,’” the group wrote on X. As a WGA member, the group added, Maher cannot “perform any writing services.
all of which rely on writers who would be breaking the strike to produce content for those segments. He also said that, as one of the show’s writers, he would not do any writing.Instead, Maher said, the show would feature “off-the-cuff” conversations, while acknowledging the arrangement will not “be as good as our normal show, full stop.
Talks have broken down between WGA and the group representing major studios and streaming services. On Wednesday, thousands of striking writers and actors took to the streets of Hollywood to pressure studios to end the months-long strike, which hasand a larger portion of residuals. Maher has previously faced backlash over comments concerning the strike after he said some of the demands were unlikely to succeed. “They kind of believe that you’re owed a living as a writer — and you’re not,” Maher said on his podcast “Club Random,” adding that there should be an acceptable middle ground between what the strikers seek and what the studios are proposing.
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