Hal Grant
Director
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
Season 3
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.
Released Feb. 21, 2003
Episode 59 min
17+
Genres: Comedy, News, Talk, Talk Show
Keywords: tmdb.politics, tmdb.usa-politics, awards.emmy-award-nominated, imdb.late-night-talk-show, imdb.politics-talk-show, imdb.social-commentary, imdb.five-word-title + 11 more, imdb.laugh-track, imdb.agnostic, imdb.atheism, imdb.panel, imdb.live-broadcast, imdb.live-audience, imdb.late-night, imdb.performer-name-in-title, imdb.interview, imdb.politics, imdb.non-fiction
Watch Providers: Spectrum On Demand, Spectrum On Demand, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max + 2 more, Philo, YouTube TV
Production Companies: Bill Maher Productions, Kid Love Productions, HBO, Brad Grey Television
Network: HBO
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - February 18, 2005
Guests: Correspondent Lesley Stahl, actor Robin Williams, former HHS Sec. Tommy Thompson, Sen. Joe Biden, actor Don Cheadle
Topics: On protecting sources, Jeff Gannon, on interrogating prisoners, Iraq elections, Darfur
Feb. 18, 2005, midnight
S3E2 - February 25, 2005
Guests: Former baseball slugger José Canseco, actor Tim Robbins, Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, talk show host Tucker Carlson, Gov. Mike Huckabee
Topics: On steroids, on Iran and Iraq, on religious belief, Ward Churchill, President Bush, on Covenant Marriage, Million Dollar Baby
Feb. 25, 2005, midnight
S3E3 - March 04, 2005
Guests: Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, former NIH administrator Bernadine Healy, actor Dave Foley, Ward Churchill and Michael Faughnan, and comic Whoopi Goldberg via satellite.
Topics: BTK killer, on the Ten Commandments, torture, on raising children
March 4, 2005, midnight
S3E4 - March 11, 2005
Guests: Rep. Barney Frank, comedian Richard Belzer, writer Andrew Breitbart, writer Irshad Manji, and writer Camille Pagila.
Topics: Gay marriage, women of Iraq, war, teachers sleeping with students, Michael Jackson
March 11, 2005, midnight
S3E5 - March 18, 2005
Guests: Gov. Frank Murkowski, actor Jason Alexander, Gov. Christie Whitman, Rep. Ileana Ross-Lehtinen, and author Thomas Frank.
Topics: ANWR, steroids, Republican Party, environment
March 18, 2005, midnight
S3E6 - April 01, 2005
Guests: TV host Bill O'Reilly, academic Cornel West, actor Alec Baldwin, actor/comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, and Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Topics: Pope, Terri Schiavo, Republican majority
April 1, 2005, midnight
S3E7 - April 08, 2005
Guests: former Gov. Mario Cuomo, actor Ian McShane, writer Arianna Huffington, TV host Rev. Joe Watkins, and conservative Richard Perle.
Topics: Tom DeLay, Iraq, immigration
April 8, 2005, midnight
S3E8 - April 15, 2005
Guests: Columnist Thomas Friedman, writer David Frum, singer Natalie Mames, Gen. Wesley Clark and Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Topics: Middle East, Darfur, gays in the military, guns, immigration
April 15, 2005, midnight
S3E9 - April 22, 2005
Guests: Actress Jane Fonda, talk show host Joe Scarborough, columnist Maureen Dowd, former Sen. Alan Simpson, environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Topics: Religion, Pope, airport security, environment, John Bolton
April 22, 2005, midnight
S3E10 - April 29, 2005
Guests: Senator Charles Schumer (D) New York, Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R) Maryland, Farai Chideya, Martin Short, and Jeff Gannon.
Topics: Voter issues, US budget, on the Presidential press conference
April 29, 2005, midnight
S3E11 - May 06, 2005
Guests: Former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright, blogger Andrew Sullivan, former Canadian PM Kim Campbell, actor Michael McKean, and Rep. Bernie Sanders.
Topics: Kim Jong Il, Pat Robertson, Pope, censorship, activist judges
May 6, 2005, midnight
S3E12 - May 13, 2005
Guests: Sen. Norm Coleman, talk radio's Al Franken, reporter Liz Marlantes, author Gore Vidal, and basketball's Charles Barkley.
Topics: Terror alerts, Voting irregularities, Iraq, Darfur, gay Republicans
May 13, 2005, midnight
S3E13 - August 19, 2005
Guests: Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly; Iraq war veteran, Paul Hackett; former Homeland Security Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson; political consultant Kellyanne Conway; actor/comic Chris Rock.
Topics: Cindy Sheehan, Iraq, John Kerry, racial profiling, activist judges
Aug. 19, 2005, midnight
S3E14 - August 26, 2005
Guests: Activist Cindy Sheehan, Gov. Mike Huckabee, journalist Dan Savage, feminist activist Eve Ensler, novelist Kinky Friedman
Topics: Camp Casey, gay marriage, health, Bush's vacation
Aug. 26, 2005, midnight
S3E15 - September 02, 2005
Guests: Television journalist Anderson Cooper, Stephen Schneider, Michael Eric Dyson, actor Bradley Whitford, professor Mary Frances Berry, journalist Fareed Zakaria
Topics: Hurricane Katrina, poverty, Iraq
Sept. 2, 2005, midnight
9.0
S3E16 - September 09, 2005
Guests: Walter Maestri, Joe Scarborough, comedian George Carlin, Cynthia Tucker, conservative editorialist James K. Glassman, writer Kurt Vonnegut
Topics: Michael D. Brown, US political system, on race, on the Administration
Sept. 9, 2005, midnight
S3E17 - September 16, 2005
Guests: Sen. Charles Schumer, PJ O'Rourke, Joy Behar, Willie Brown, Dan Senor
Topics: John Roberts, Bush taking responsibility, poverty, Iraq
Sept. 16, 2005, midnight
7.0
S3E18 - September 23, 2005
Guests: Singer Willie Nelson, Rep. David Dreier, author/journalist Christopher Hitchens, BBC News correspondent Katty Kay, British politician George Galloway, journalist Andrea Mitchell
Topics: Hurricane Rita, Vice President Cheney, Jet Blue emergency landing, foreign oil dependency, Margaret Thatcher, critiquing the U.S.
Sept. 23, 2005, midnight
S3E19 - October 07, 2005
Guests: Conservative columnist Ann Coulter, journalist Andrew Sullivan, actor Ben Affleck, writer Salman Rushdie, soldier/author Kayla Williams
Topics: Harriet Miers, religion, torture
Oct. 7, 2005, midnight
S3E20 - October 14, 2005
Guests: Former Sen. Max Cleland, columnist Tina Brown, actor/comedian Larry Miller, author Tom Wolfe, police chief Richard Pennington, former Sen. John Edwards
Topics: President's approval rating, poverty, police beatings, Iraq, Harriet Miers
Oct. 14, 2005, midnight
S3E21 - October 21, 2005
Guests: Arianna Huffington, Tucker Carlson, Michel Martin, Spike Lee, Chris Webber
Topics: Valerie Plame, New York Times, health care, NBA dress code, governments response to Katrina, conspiracy in New Orleans
Oct. 21, 2005, midnight
S3E22 - October 28, 2005
Guests: Richard A. Clarke, reporter Helen Thomas, actor Billy Connolly, TV host Tony Snow, writer Nadira Hira
Topics: Press Corps, Scooter Libby
Oct. 28, 2005, midnight
S3E23 - November 04, 2005
Guests: fmr Pres. Mary Robinson of Ireland, Joe Scarborough, John Waters, fmr. Sen. Tom Daschle, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Topics: Rosa Parks' funeral, national security leak
Nov. 4, 2005, midnight
Network: HBO
Episode Runtime: 59 min.
Season Runtime: 42594 min.
Released: Feb. 21, 2003
Last Air Date: Nov. 21, 2025, midnight
Next Air Date: Jan. 23, 2026, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-MA
Common sense age: 17+
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