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You'd think HBO's parent company, Warner Bros Discovery, would give Last Week Tonight host John Oliver more carte blanche about how his content is distributed considering the 30 Primetime Emmys (including two won in 2024), the variety talk series has won, second to the high-fantasy drama Game of Thrones with its possible near-unsurmountable 59 wins[...]

Though it actually wasn't in the book, that didn't keep the "urban legend" of it from blowing up big-time – and HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver host John Oliver thinks he understands why. Images/Screencaps: Last Week Tonight YouTube, FOX News YouTube, FX Networks YouTube "It is not in his book, but I think the reason[...]

Just so there's no confusion? Every episode of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is worth watching – which makes it twice as annoying having to wait until Thursday for it to hit online (especially when it seems like we have clips from Bill "Damn You Kids!" Maher seemingly everywhere within 24-48 hours) But[...]

While this still doesn't answer the question as to why Real Time with Bill Maher can get clips up online shortly after his Friday night show while Sunday night's Last Week Tonight has to wait until Thursday, we don't want to poop on some good news Fans of the Emmy Award-winning, John Oliver-hosted HBO series[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? White House Correspondents' Dinner/SNL's Colin Jost, Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives, Max's Lanterns, Adult Swim's Smiling Friends, AMC's The Walking Dead, HBO's Last Week Tonight/UFOs, James Gunn/X-Men '97, AEW Collision/AEW Rampage, Disney+'s The Mandalorian, BBC's Doctor Who, and more! Images/Screencaps: Marvel Studios, WBTV, YouTube, BBC/Doctor Who Magazine, Threads, Max, AMC Networks, Netflix, The White House, NBCUniversal,[...]

As much as HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver tackles the current events of serious social, domestic, and international importance, occasionally, it will focus on the ongoing timeless topics that humanity hasn't tackled properly yet – like Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs, the subject of a recent episode Much of science fiction and pop[...]

If you had a chance to check out Sunday night's edition of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, then you know that Emmy Award-winning host John Oliver continued his tradition of one-topic-tackling while still touching upon the hot topics of the moment Of course, we would love to share slips of the segment, but[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia & Jason Kelce, Supergirl/Melissa Benoist, HBO's House of the Dragon, BBC's Doctor Who, USA Network's WWE Raw, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, CBS's NCIS: Origins, Peacock's Community: The Movie, NBC's Night Court, FOX's Baywatch, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, WWE Hall of[...]

Want to know why HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver gets a lot of love? Because not many shows can connect the dots between Donald Trump & The Supreme Court to Pokerface star Natasha Lyonne and DC Studios Co-CEOs James Gunn & Peter Safran's New DCU as smoothly & effortlessly as John Oliver can[...]

John Oliver kicked off the 11th season of his award-winning weekly late-night news/comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in a big way last Sunday with a huge offer to Justice Clarence Thomas: $1 million per year (for as long as either Oliver & Thomas stay alive) – along with a $2.4 million motor home –[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Comedy Central's The Daily Show, Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman, Prime Video's Blade Runner 2099, HBO's Last Week Tonight, USA Network's WWE Raw, AMC's The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, NBC's Law & Order, Netflix's Avatar:[...]

HBO's award-winning weekly late-night news/comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned for its 11th season this past Sunday night – and John Oliver didn't waste time setting a pretty high bar for the season How? By offering Justice Clarence Thomas $1 million per year (for as long as either Oliver & Thomas stay alive)[...]

Just to be clear? We know that the expression "putting your money where your mouth is" is one of those cliched expressions that's been beaten to death for decades – but that changed on Sunday night when HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver a deal that might be too tough for Supreme Court Justice[...]

If you ask John Oliver if he ever feels his talk show Last Week Tonight would ever feel stale after 10 seasons on HBO, you wouldn't know it heading into his 11th season The host appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with a very special guest, arguably the biggest member of the public[...]

But we would never pretend for a second to be at the level of John Oliver – so when HBO's Sunday late-night host decides to devote a 30-minute segment to the dumpster fire that was Musk's 2023 to wrap up the show's run before the holiday break, we're just going to sit back and share[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? NBC's Saturday Night Live, NBC's Law & Order: Organized Crime, Disney+'s What If…?, Netflix's Star Trek: Prodigy, TBS's AEW Dynamite, Netflix's Stranger Things 5, Disney+'s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, FXX's Archer, BBC's Doctor Who, Dropout's Dimension 20: Fantasy High – Junior Year, FOX's America's Most Wanted, BBC's Ghosts, NBC's Brooklyn Nine-Nine/Andre Braugher, HBO's Last Week Tonight with John[...]

If there's anyone who's there to remind us how woefully inefficient our American institutions are in such a colorful way, it's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver Not far removed from the three-season renewal, the host took one of the country's most enduring pastimes in locomotives to shine a light on how much in disarray[...]

Seems like HBO is not done with John Oliver or his weekly variety series Last Week Tonight yet Not by a long shot renewing the multi-Emmy-winning series for three additional seasons through 2026, guaranteeing a 13th season, expanding the legacy of arguably The Daily Show's biggest successful alum and spiritual successor A satirical, insightful, and[...]

But HBO got a bit of a jump on that over the weekend, with Bill Maher returning to Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night and John Oliver returning with Last Week Tonight on Sunday night With being off the air for five months, there were clearly a ton of topics to be covered[...]

It's been a very long five months for those in the entertainment industry, and among several talk shows celebrating and promising to deliver big is HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The series' social media account was posted following the announcement of the Writers Guild of America ending their strike against the major studios[...]

Of course John Oliver was going to go after FOX "News" during the opening to the 10th season of HBO's Emmy Award-winning Last Week Tonight Especially when excerpts from sealed court filings by Dominion Voting Systems showed that (shocker!) a number of familiar FOX faces didn't believe the stuff they were spreading across the airwaves,[...]

Comedian, actor, and writer John Oliver returns with new shenanigans as HBO released the new trailer for their long-time weekly late-night series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver The host and Daily Show alum have brought attention to a wide range of topics, foreign and domestic, offering biting "satirical, insightful, and meticulously researched look at[...]

We're getting a sense that John Oliver has a new recurring theme for his HBO late-night news/opinion show Last Week Tonight, and we're pretty sure that Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) boss David Zaslav & Co can expect some very uncomfortable Monday mornings in their near future Not exactly pulling his punches last week over how[...]

John Oliver is back for more hijinks, rants, and tangents as HBO announced a premiere date for the ninth season of the award-winning Last Week Tonight But fans not only have February 20th to look forward to, but they also have an official poster for the season (check it out below) as well as the[...]

Last Week Tonight host John Oliver is braving his next step during the ongoing COVID pandemic, a return to the studio and away from "the Void", where he's been filming remotely for his HBO talk series At the end of the episode on August 22, Oliver announced that following the series' two-week hiatus, the show[...]

HBO dropped the latest trailer for the multi-Emmy-Award-winning weekly late-night hit Last Week Tonight with John Oliver entering its eighth season As the highlight reel for its previous season begins, Oliver warns the audience, "Brace yourselves, because everything you're about to hear is horse shit." The network then asks through a transition, "READY TO GET[...]

After poking, prodding and hypothetical illustrations of what the Pringles' mascot would look like the Last Week Tonight host John Oliver finally has his answer After posting his web exclusive video on YouTube in-between seasons, Kellogg's, which owns the potato crisp brand, posted on the official Pringles Twitter account with the following message, "The moment[...]

HBO's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver couldn't stay away from addressing viewers in-between seasons to provide an update on his concerns regarding Pringles To start the clip, he referenced a past show as a launching point from a rant on CNN personality Don Lemon to Pringles asking, "What does the rest of the Pringles[...]

If there's someone who's consistent with a running gag, it's Last Week Tonight host John Oliver whether if it's his obsession with Danbury, Connecticut, and their sewage treatment plant or actor Adam Driver, that Adonis and magical steed rolled into one The two-time Oscar nominee finally staged an intervention with the HBO host on the[...]

After months of posturing and flinging insults at one another, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver and Danbury, Connecticut finally reached an agreement and made things official successfully renaming the city's local sewage plant to "The John Oliver Memorial Sewage Plant" on October 19 The feud goes back to 2017 when Oliver poked fun at[...]