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So why did the network take him off the air?


Why now?
Do HBO think he is somehow hurting the Clinton campaign?
Why not air a political show just weeks before the election?

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What do you mean took him off the air?

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Bill said there was no show scheduled for this week, not that he was taken off the air. Could be for any number reasons.

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Did you not notice that there was no show?

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What do you mean? He had his show Friday the 14th. He said on that show there would not be a show this week (the 21st). He didn't say HBO 'took him off the air'.

I said there could be many reasons. He takes some weeks off the season anyway. He may have so many episodes in his contract and this shortsightedly was one 'dark' week. He sometimes has to run out after a show to do stand up - he might have something scheduled.

Point is HBO didn't take him off the air.

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Who cares about Real Time being off...the show that should be broadcast is the Al Smith Charity Dinner tonight, where Clinton and Trump will be seated one seat away from each other, separated by the Archbishop. Traditionally, they're expected to roast each other, like other Presidential candidates in the last five decades. Oh, to be a fly on the wall! ;-)

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/20/politics/al-smith-dinner-hillary-clinton-donald-tump/index.html


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Yeah, one of the largest network on television just happened to "miss-scheduled" one of the largest political shows days before the election.
Just shortsighted it. That happens a lot....

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What? You want to get a lawyer or something? Or you just want to file it along with 9/11 was a hoax, and Elvis is still alive?

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I noticed it too, who knows what's going on but I thought it was crazy not to have a show every week up to the election. Maybe they think their like SNL and they have to take a break every 3-5 episodes? Maybe Bill and his production company are at odds with HBO?

Who knows what's going on but at least Bill will have 2 more shows before the election. Maybe they'll hit grand slams with those shows and everything will be right again.



Shall we play a game?

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Yes. And John Oliver was dark for a couple of weeks right in the middle of this (once during the debates I think.

And you are right - there are two more episodes before the election. If you think there are shenanigans going on, the last two (especially) would be off. Actually, of the time remaining, being dark tonight is probably the least influential.

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It wasn't 'miss-scheduled.' Are you stupid?

Are you familiar with the part of this website that CLEARLY lists when his show is scheduled to air?

Maybe you watch too much Alex Jones - or you missed your meds.

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The paranoid delusions are getting frightening. 1. They didn't "take him off the air"--he just doesn't have a show this week, 2. He's not affecting the Clinton campaign one way or the other, 3. The Clinton campaign IN REALITY is not exactly hurting--she has a 93 percent chance of winning currently. 4. HBO is not in the pocket of Hilary Clinton. They'll take Maher off the air if his ratings decline--and they probably aren't too good given how disgusted rational, reasonable people in America are with politics right now--but it's ridiculous to think HBO is making business decisions based on Clinton's poll numbers. Besides, if they were, the show would probably be on every single day until November 8 because Maher's pro-Hilary agenda seems to be working like a charm so far.

"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"

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HBO is not in the pocket of Hilary Clinton.

Time Warner is Hillary's top financier outside Saudia Arabia.

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Most of the late night shows had a break either one of the last two weeks. Additionally, I think Maher will have a few less regular shows this season, because he did all those convention specials.

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