{"id":82991,"date":"2023-09-18T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/?p=82991"},"modified":"2023-09-18T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:52:09","slug":"drew-barrymore-has-put-her-talk-show-on-hold-before-the-season-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happylifestyleinc.com\/celebrities\/drew-barrymore-has-put-her-talk-show-on-hold-before-the-season-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Barrymore has put her talk show on hold before the season premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Friday Drew Barrymore posted a teary video to Instagram (below) where she continued to defend her decision to bring back her talk show amid the ongoing writer and actor strikes. She tread a lot of familiar ground, including that it was bigger than her, if she could make a show work during the pandemic then why not now, and that she owned her decision. The video was taken down not long after posting, but was saved for posterity\u2019s sake by others on the interwebs. Well, by the time I was finishing jotting down my notes to cover her video, Drew had capitulated and announced that her show would not return until the strikes were over. Maybe it was being put in the same conversation as Bill Maher, maybe fellow Charlie\u2019s Angels gave her an ass whooping, maybe ET phoned Earth to scold her. Whatever the final straw was for Drew, it\u2019s having a ripple effect across daytime talk shows:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show\u2019s premiere until the strike is over,\u201d she wrote on Instagram. \u201cI have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today. We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe support Drew\u2019s decision to pause the show\u2019s return and understand how complex and difficult this process has been for her,\u201d a spokesperson for CBS Media Ventures told Variety in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Drew Barrymore Show\u201d will air repeats for the foreseeable future, a knowledgeable individual told Variety. Episodes that were taped last week when the show went back into production will not air.<\/p>\n
The WGA has canceled planned pickets of \u201cThe Drew Barrymore Show.\u201d Striking guild members will be picketing \u201cThe View,\u201d which is a WGA-covered struck show, on Monday.<\/p>\n
Barrymore faced swift blowback for her decision to resume taping her talk show despite Hollywood\u2019s ongoing labor strikes. Variety reported on Saturday that part of Barrymore\u2019s choice to bring back the show stemmed from contractual obligations with station partners across the daytime TV business. As part of the fallout, National Book awards rescinded Barrymore\u2019s invitation to host its upcoming annual award ceremony.<\/p>\n
As long as hosts or guests don\u2019t discuss or promote struck work, Barrymore wouldn\u2019t have been violating SAG-AFTRA rules. (The Network Code agreement allows daytime hosts to perform hosting duties.) But Barrymore\u2019s show operates with union writers, so new episodes would have required moving forward without their writers on staff.<\/p>\n
At the time, the WGA condemned Barrymore\u2019s decision in a statement, saying, \u201cDrew Barrymore should not be on the air while her writers are on strike fighting for a fair deal. In reality, shows like this cannot operate without writing, and that is struck work.\u201d The Guild has not responded to request for comment about Barrymore\u2019s reversal in programming.<\/p>\n
Following Barrymore\u2019s pause, CBS\u2019 \u201cThe Talk\u201d and \u201cThe Jennifer Hudson Show\u201d also announced they would no longer return on Monday as planned. Other daytime talk shows that have returned this season include \u201cThe View,\u201d which has been airing without its writers, as well as \u201cLive With Kelly and Mark\u201d and \u201cTamron Hall Show,\u201d neither of which have writers and are not covered by the WGA.<\/p>\n
Barrymore apologized in a now-deleted video, in which she says she owned the choice to bring back her show. \u201cI certainly couldn\u2019t have expected this kind of attention,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to do this because as I said, this is bigger than me, and there are other people\u2019s jobs on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
[From Variety]<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly couldn\u2019t have expected this kind of attention.\u201d<\/em> Really?!? Shouldn\u2019t there be at least three people on her payroll whose job it is to expect something like this? In the four-minute video where Drew said this, she also claimed that she does not have a PR machine behind her. I find that very<\/em> hard to swallow, but whoever is on PR for Drew and the show has really messed up. Like I’ve said before, it\u2019s incredible to see how Drew and her people have, in the span of a week, squandered all the positive public image she had earned with her show.<\/p>\n
On the plus side, at least now we have a trifecta of CBS talk shows on hiatus. Why is that a boon? Because CBS is part of Paramount. In addition to CBS, Paramount is also parent to BET, Comedy Central, CW, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and VH1. That\u2019s nine studios right there that are in bed together, and one of them has an increased incentive for their AMPTP representation to find a resolution with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. And that<\/em> is how striking works.<\/p>\n
— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) September 15, 2023<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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