Bill Maher stated his weekly HBO present would return to the air regardless of leisure writers, together with members of his personal employees, nonetheless being on strike.

“Real Time With Bill Maher” is the newest speak present to announce a return in current days, even because the writers’ union has vowed to picket any “struck shows.”

Drew Barrymore introduced this week that she would start taping new episodes of her speak present. “The Jennifer Hudson Show” and “The Talk” can even return. Other speak exhibits, together with “The View” and “Live With Kelly and Mark,” have been taping all through the strike.

Mr. Maher stated on his social media feeds on Wednesday evening that it was “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,” he wrote. “Despite some assistance from me, much of the staff is struggling mightily.”

He additionally stated he had been hopeful there can be some form of decision to the labor dispute by Labor Day, however “that day has come and gone, and there still seems to be nothing happening.”

The writers have been on strike for 136 days, one of many longest screenwriter strikes ever (the longest was 153 days in 1988). Tens of 1000’s of actors have been on strike for 2 months as properly, the primary time writers and actors have walked out on the similar time since 1960. The consequence has been a near-complete shutdown of Hollywood scripted manufacturing.

There was hope all through the leisure trade {that a} decision could possibly be within the offing when the foremost Hollywood studios and leaders of the Writers Guild of America, the writers’ union, resumed negotiations final month after a prolonged stalemate. But over the previous three weeks, bargaining has once more stalled out, irritating some big-name Hollywood showrunners within the course of.

More than 11,000 writers walked out in early May, arguing that their compensation ranges and dealing situations have deteriorated within the streaming period. The strike brought about many speak exhibits to go darkish, together with “The Tonight Show,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “Saturday Night Live.”

After Ms. Barrymore introduced that she was returning to her present, the backlash from writers — in addition to others on social media — was swift. The Writers Guild promptly picketed exterior the present’s studio. The National Book Foundation dropped Ms. Barrymore as host of the upcoming National Book Awards.

In a press release on Wednesday evening, the Writers Guild known as Mr. Maher’s determination “disappointing,” and stated that members would start picketing the HBO present.

“As a W.G.A. member, Bill Maher is obligated to follow the strike rules and not perform any writing services,” the guild stated. “It is difficult to imagine how ‘Real Time’ can go forward without a violation of W.G.A. strike rules taking place.”

Other speak present hosts have confirmed no indications of returning to work. Five late-night hosts — Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Mr. Maher’s HBO colleague John Oliver — have as an alternative began a bunch podcast, “Strike Force Five.” Proceeds are going to their out-of-work employees.

During the 2007 writers’ strike, which lasted 100 days, late-night exhibits returned after two months, even with writers nonetheless on picket strains. The “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno was reprimanded by the Writers Guild for performing a monologue that he wrote himself.

Mr. Maher stated on Wednesday that he wouldn’t carry out a monologue or different “written pieces,” and would as an alternative concentrate on the panel discussions which can be a signature of the present.

“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,” he stated.