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Stone, Maddow, Noor and Frist on Maher's HBO Real Time

By April MacIntyre Jun 10, 2010, 5:26 GMT

Queen Noor of Jordan attends the Vanity Fair Party to kick-off the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York USA, 20 April 2010. EPA/PETER FOLEY

"Real Time with Bill Maher" concludes the first half of its eighth season Friday, June 11 (10:00-11:00 p.m. live ET/tape-delayed PT), exclusively on HBO, with an instant replay at 11:00 p.m., following the live presentation. 

Maher dishes his perspective on contemporary issues via an opening monologue, roundtable discussions with panelists, and interviews with in-studio and satellite guests.

The roundtable guests this week are former Tenn. Sen. Bill Frist, news anchor Rachel Maddow and journalist Jon Meacham; Queen Noor of Jordan, chairwoman of the King Hussein Foundation, and director Oliver Stone are interview guests.

Other HBO playdates:  June 13 (12:30 p.m., 3:10 a.m.), 14 (8:00 p.m.) and 16 (11:00 p.m.)

HBO2 playdates:  June 11 (2:20 a.m.), 12 (9:30 a.m., midnight), 13 (7:00 p.m.) and 15 (10:00 p.m.)

The series goes on hiatus after this week’s show, and returns with new weekly editions in September.

                A favorite of subscribers since his first special on the network in 1989, Maher has starred in nine solo specials on HBO, including the hour-long presentations “Bill Maher…But I’m Not Wrong” (which debuted in February), “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 HBO specials “30 Seconds Over Washington” and “Comic Relief VI™.”  REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER will return for its ninth season on HBO in 2011.

                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 most recent book, “New Rules:  Polite Musings from a Timid Observer,” made the New York Times best seller list, as well as best seller 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 also starred in the 2008 feature film “Religulous,” the seventh most successful documentary of all time.