Hours after the screenwriters’ strike hollywood came to an end, Bill Maher led the return to work by announcing early Wednesday that his HBO “Real Time with Bill Maher” would air again on Friday.
“My writers and ‘Real Time’ are back!” posted on social media.
On Tuesday night, writers’ union board members approved a contractual agreement with the studios, bringing the industry back, at least in part, from a historic production shutdown that lasted nearly five years. months.
Maher had delayed returning to his talk show during the ongoing strike by writers and actors, a decision that led to other shows, such as “The Drew Barrymore Show,” “The Talk” and “The Jennifer Hudson Show”to take similar pauses.
The new agreement paves the way for late-night TV shows to return. They were the first to be affected when the strike began, and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and the “Late Night With Seth Meyers” NBC’s show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” of the ABC, and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” of CBS, suspended their broadcasts immediately.
The television series will take longer to return, because the actors are still on strike and there are no negotiations in sight.
The three-year agreement with studios, producers and streaming services includes important victories in the main areas that writers had fought for – compensation, length of employment, staff size and control of artificial intelligence -, equaling or almost equaling what they had requested at the beginning of the strike.
The union had requested minimum increases in salary and future residual income from the series, and will obtain an increase of between 3.5% and the 5% in those areas, more than what the studies had offered.
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