HBO has renewed Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for three more seasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The renewal ensures the show's production up to its 13th season in 2026.

HBO and Max Content chairman and CEO Casey Bloys said in a statement, “Over the past decade, John and his exceptional team have combined deep research and intelligence with cutting humor to tackle a broad range of subjects, both widely discussed and unconventional.”

“With an important election year on the horizon, we look forward to seeing what John has in store for audiences over the next three years,” he continued.

“We’re very happy to get to keep making this show with our fantastic staff. We will continue trying to stretch the term ‘entertainment’ to the breaking point.” John Oliver added.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver premiered in April 2014. Since then, it has won seven Emmy Awards for best variety talk series, as well as for writing, for the last seven years. For the 75th Emmy Awards, it will be moving to a different category, scripted variety series, a newly created category. It will go up against another HBO series A Black Lady Comedy Sketch Show and NBC's Saturday Night Live.

The talk show has received other accolades such as six WGA Awards and two Peabody Awards.

Although the show has had many segments that have gone viral, its earliest and arguably most famous one was its “takedown” on net neutrality in June 2014. Last Week Tonight has been largely credited (at least on social media) as to having a profound effect in the FCC's decision to implement net neutrality rules to prevent priority lanes in for internet traffic.

The John Oliver Effect

The highlight of the segment was Oliver's call to action aimed at internet commenters. He began by addressing them, “Good evening, monsters.”

“This may be the moment you've spent your whole life waiting for,” Oliver continued.

With a soaring and inspirational background music to help him along, he stood in front of a screen with the FCC's link for comments, he urged commenters — badly spelled bile and all – to focus their “indiscriminate rage in a useful direction.”

“Seize your moment, my lovely trolls. Turn on Caps Lock and fly my pretties, fly!”

Oliver's proclamation was thought to have resulted in 45,000 comments on the agency's page and 300,000 comments to the special inbox designated for the internet proposal. The media dubbed this the start of the John Oliver Effect.

The latest flex of this effect was the show's campaign to for New Zealand's Bird of the Century. The show — and its host — went all out for the Australasian crested grebe or more famously known as the Pūteketeke. The campaign for “The Lord of the Wings” entailed billboards in Wellington, and in other countries such as France, Japan, England and India.

There was also a banner flown over Ipanema Beach in Brazil, and Oliver himself dressed as the bird when he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Oliver's “high-powered” campaign reportedly crashed conservation group Forest and Bird's verification website. There were 350,000 verified votes, shattering 2021's record of 56,700.

With the news of the show's renewal, we can hope that Last Week Tonight uses John Oliver's powers for good — or at least for a good time.