Drew Barrymore Is Pausing Her Talk Show Premiere ‘Until the Strike Is Over’

UPDATE 9/17 11:15 A.M. — Drew Barrymore is suspending her speak present return.
“I’ve listened to everybody, and I’m making the choice to pause the present’s premiere till the strike is over,” she wrote in an Instagram assertion on Sunday, September 17. “I’ve no phrases to specific my deepest apologies to anybody I’ve harm and, after all, to our unimaginable crew who works on the present and has made it what it’s in the present day. We actually tried to search out our means ahead. And I really hope for a decision for your complete trade very quickly.”
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Drew Barrymore confirmed she is headed again to the studio — regardless of being picketed.
CBS Media Ventures revealed final week that the fourth season of The Drew Barrymore Show would premiere on September 18. Barrymore didn’t touch upon her resolution to return amid the continued Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes till Sunday, September 10.
“I personal this selection,” she wrote in an announcement posted through Instagram on Sunday, September 10. “We are in compliance with not discussing or selling movie and tv that’s struck of any type.”
But the WGA took to X, previously generally known as Twitter, to encourage picketers to be outdoors her present’s studios in New York City on Monday, September 11.

“Join us in holding the picket line on the Drew Barrymore Show as they resume taping, in the course of twin Hollywood strikes,” they wrote.
Showing her solidarity with WGA, Barrymore had beforehand stepped down from internet hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards on May 4.
“I really like the @mtvawards household and we might be again subsequent 12 months collectively,” she wrote on Instagram on the time. “I hope you continue to watch the awards with me Sunday, because it has such fantastic moments to get pleasure from. I stand with the @wgaeast @wgawest.”

In her newest assertion, Barrymore defined she walked away from internet hosting as a result of she “had a direct battle with what the strike was coping with which was studios, streamers, movie, and tv.”
But now, she is making a choice to return to her speak present.
“I wish to be there to offer what writers achieve this nicely, which is a approach to carry us collectively or assist us make sense of the human expertise,” she wrote. “I hope for a resolve for everybody as quickly as potential. We have navigated troublesome instances since we first got here on air. And so I take a step ahead to begin season 4 as soon as once more with an astute humility.”
The Drew Barrymore Show launched in 2020 and was “constructed for delicate instances and has solely functioned by means of what the actual world goes by means of in actual time,” Barrymore wrote in her assertion.

Season 4 is scheduled to incorporate movie star hairstylist Chris Appleton and a brand new section titled “Take Care Everywhere” with Barrymore and founding father of Menopause Bootcamp Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz. The speak present will even proceed to characteristic segments comparable to Drew-Gooders, Designed by Drew and Cookbook Club.

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However, Barrymore won’t be able to characteristic actors selling motion pictures or scripted TV reveals from studios throughout the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), who sometimes make up a large a part of her slate.
On May 1, the WGA went on strike over considerations about residuals from streaming platforms and the usage of synthetic intelligence to create scripts. The greater than 11,000 writers had been joined in July by SAG-AFTRA, which has related considerations relating to issues like synthetic intelligence and the problem of who owns an actor’s likeness if reproduced.

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