REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER continues its 12th season TONIGHT, NOV. 7 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT), with a replay at midnight, exclusively on HBO. Allowing Maher to offer his unique perspective on contemporary issues, the show includes an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with guests. Author Linda Tirado is the top-of-show interview guest. Actress Lisa Kudrow is the mid-show interview guest. The roundtable guests are political consultant Kristen Soltis Anderson, reporter Robert Costa and Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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HBO playdates: Nov. 9 (2:00 p.m.), 10 (4:15 a.m.) and 12 (11:00 p.m.)
HBO2 playdates: Nov. 7 (2:05 a.m.), 8 (8:45 a.m., 11:30 p.m.), 10 (8:00 p.m.) and 11 (4:15 p.m.)
Bill Maher headlined his first special on the network in 1989 and has starred in ten solo specials to date, including the hour-long presentations "
Bill Maher: Live from D.C." (which debuted Sept. 12), "
Bill Maher...But I'm Not Wrong," "The Decider" and "I'm Swiss" (both nominated for an Emmy® in the Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special category), "Victory Begins at Home," "Be More Cynical," "The Golden Goose Special" and "Stuff That Struck Me Funny," and two half-hour stand-up specials, plus
THE SPECIALS "30 Seconds Over Washington" and "Comic Relief VI™." Maher is also an executive producer of the innovative news magazine show "VICE," which concluded its second season on
HBO earlier this year and returns in 2015.
Politico has hailed Maher as "a pugnacious debater and a healthy corrective to the claptrap of cable news," while Variety noted, "There may not be a more eclectic guest list on all of television."
HBO has renewed
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER for a 13th season of 35 editions, to begin in Jan. 2015.
Maher was the creator and host of "Politically Incorrect," which was produced by
HBO Downtown Productions and debuted on
Comedy Central in 1993. The series moved to
ABC in 1997 and ran through 2002.
His last book, "The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass," was published in November 2011 and made the New York Times bestseller list. Maher's 2006 book, "New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer," also made the New York Times list, as well as bestseller lists across the country. He is also author of the books "When You Ride Alone You Ride with Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism," "Does Anybody Have a Problem with That? The Best of Politically Incorrect" and the novel "True Story." Maher produced and starred in the 2008 feature film "Religulous," the seventh most successful documentary of all time.
The executive producers of
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER are
Bill Maher,
Scott Carter,
Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz,
Brad Grey and Billy Martin; produced by Dean E. Johnsen; director, Paul G. Casey.
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