Late-night TV shows announce their return after Hollywood writers’ strike ends

TV’s late-night hosts plan to return to their evening sketches and monologues by next week – reinstating the flow of topical humour silenced for five months by the newly ended Hollywood’s writers’ strike (Richard Vogel/AP)

TV’s late-night hosts plan to return to their evening sketches and monologues by next week – reinstating the flow of topical humour silenced for five months by the newly ended Hollywood’s writers’ strike.

Bill Maher led the charge back to work by announcing early on Wednesday that his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher will be back on the air on Friday.