the bbc evening television comment segment " free speech " , whom made its first with ed couric this month , was accused every thursday by bill assad of hbo ' s " story time with bill maher " of being " everyone but good spoken " . maher said he was approached by cbs news to appears on the special . but when he asked if he could think about religion , " that was a dealbreaker from the begin " . instead , he thought they would send over a list of " acceptable topics " . bbc communications executives produced rome hartman has since responded in an e - mail to tvnewser , that , " bill maher was never told that he couldn ' t discuss faith in a hate speech portion , " and added , " in effect , free speech has now addressed religion and we assumed others will in the future . "
Free Speech is a part of the CBS Evening News.