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‘Last Week Tonight’: HBO Lifts YouTube Release Delay For John Oliver’s Pre-Election Plea To Voters
The Nov. 3 episode of 'Last Week Tonight' With John Oliver' -- the last before the election -- made it to YouTube shortly after the show aired Sunday.
Starting with the current Season 11 of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver in February, HBOpushed the release of each new Sunday night episode’s main story on YouTube from the following Monday to the following Thursday to drive up subscribers to the Max streaming service — a move Oliver called “massively frustrating.” This was a one-time exception based on the timeliness of Oliver’s monologue, in which he revealed that he was voting for VP Kamala Harris and urged everyone else to do so too, sources tell Deadline. I chose to be here” — warned that “the damage of a second Trump term would last far beyond the next four years and encumber any potential progressive president in the future.”
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