Bill Maher returns to HBO without writers
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LOS ANGELES  - HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" will return with new episodes Friday without both writers and two of its most popular features, Maher's opening monologue and the closing segment "New Rules."
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The two biggest questions late-night hosts face when most of them return to the screen on Wednesday night are: How are they going to be funny without writers?
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Veteran tube star Gerald McRaney plans to be back making more TV within the month after being discharged Friday from the Houston hospital where he underwent cancer surgery.
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Jay Leno and Conan OâBrien will return to the air on Jan. 2, but they may be forced to perform without writers.
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Jay Leno, America's leading late-night comedian as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," will retire in 2009 and be replaced by Conan O'Brien, the offbeat comic whose own show airs an hour later, the network said on Monday.
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Confusion surrounded presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's appearance on Jay Leno's show and Hillary Clinton was set to appear with David Letterman as TV's late-night funnymen prepared to return to the air Wednesday night.  Clinton was to join Robin...
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The talk-show host discusses going back to work during the writers' strike, the new threat to TV and another New Year's Eve
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America's late-night TV comics returned to the air on Wednesday with dueling politicians, newly grown facial hair and expressions of sympathy for striking screenwriters whose labor dispute threw the shows into reruns for two months.
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US talk show host David Letterman reaches a deal with striking writers that will allow him to return to the air in January.
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The devastating southern Asian tsunami has brought George Clooney   and Bill O'Reilly back together.
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Late-night TV comedians Jay Leno  and Conan O'Brien said on Monday they will resume taping their  shows on January 2, and cross picket lines if necessary, after  nearly two months off the air in support of striking film and  television writers.
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Three months after his notorious blackout farewell from "The Sopranos," actor James Gandolfini will return to HBO with a documentary about wounded U.S. veterans of the Iraq war, the network said on Monday.
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Jon Stewart was back Monday night for the first time since the Hollywood writers strike began, but he took care to draw a clear distinction between the show he was returning with and the show he hosted until two months ago.
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Funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are going back to work at Comedy Central whether they have writers to come up with jokes or not.  "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and the "Colbert Report" will resume production Jan. 7, the network revealed ...
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NEW YORK  Â Politicians beware: Parody is returning. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
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Friends star Lisa Kudrow is all set to star in the new HBO comedy, Comeback.
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He signed off Wednesday on NBC Nightly News for the first time in more than 20 years without his traditional &quot;See you back here tomorrow night.