Guest Bookings: Maher, Colbert, DeGeneres

Barbra Streisand trash talks President Donald Trump on this week’s Real Time With Bill Maher (SoHo, 11.15 tonight).

Deadline reports she claims sadness and anger about Trump’s presidency motivated her new album, Walls.

“I couldn’t sleep nights. The photographs in my head – the pictures of the children being ripped out of the arms of their parents.”

Meanwhile, Chris Pine and Billy Crystal are among the guests booked this week on Prime’s The Last Show With Stephen Colbert:

• Tonight, 11.00: Billy Eichner and an interview with and musical performance by Itzhak Perlman
• Tuesday, 11.30: Jude Law, US Senator Amy Klobuchar and Chef Flynn McGarry
• Wednesday, 10.40: John Heilemann, Alex Wagner and Hasan Minhaj discuss the US midterms
• Thursday, 10.40: Chris Pine, CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
• Friday, 10.30: Billy Crystal, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and a musical performance by Big Red Machine
• Monday, 10.40pm: Alexander Skarsgård.

And scheduled for The Ellen DeGeneres Show (TVNZ 1, 9am/2pm weekdays):

• Tuesday: Halloween Special
• Wednesday: Rami Malek and Nate Seltzer
• Thursday: Sean Hayes and Fatima Ali
• Friday:  Blake Shelton and Joel Edgerton.