Drew Barrymore's show will return in October, sources tell Variety. Amid the WGA strike, Barrymore was criticized for announced her show would return.
Barrymore found herself in the eye of a storm when she announced her talk show would be returning amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The actor was roundly criticized for saying that the show would premiere on Sept. 18 in compliance with WGA guidelines and without writers — but then, she made matters worse byBarrymore’s choice to bring back the show stemmed from wanting to keep her staff at work, as well as contractual obligations with station partners across the daytime TV business,.
However, the show operates with union writers, so new episodes would have required moving forward without their writers on staff. The WGA had condemned Barrymore’s decision in a statement, saying, “Drew 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.”
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