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Drew Barrymore Slammed by Hollywood for Bringing Talk
Variety ^ | Zack Sharf

Posted on 09/11/2023 11:53:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Show Back Amid Strikes: ‘Gross,’ ‘Scab,’ ‘Incredibly Disappointing’

Drew Barrymore is being criticized by fellow actors and writers on social media for her decision to bring back her eponymous daytime talk show amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. “The Drew Barrymore Show” is set to return Sept. 18.

While Barrymore is not violating SAG-AFTRA rules as the host of the show (guild contracts for talk shows, game shows, variety shows and soap operas was renewed and ratified in 2022), her show does employ WGA writers. This means new episodes of “The Drew Barrymore Show” will have to utilize either violating WGA members, non-WGA writers or no one. A spokesperson for CBS Media Ventures told Variety the show will “not be performing any writing work covered by the WGA strike.”

“Drew Barrymore has always been someone who recognized her privilege and aimed to evolve, so I hope she will reconsider this hasty decision intended to pay her crew because it weakens both unions to openly endorse scabbing,” TV writer Gennefer Gross posted.

TV personality Felicia Day added, “Sooo who is writing her opening monologue and literally everything else on this show when it starts up again next week? Scab writers?! Ughhhh gross Drew Barrymore. Gross.”

“This is incredibly disappointing,” comic and writer Adam Conover wrote. “Drew Barrymore’s show employs WGA writers who are currently on strike. She is choosing to go back on the air without them, and forcing her guests to cross a picket line. Drew: This harms your writers and all union workers. Please reconsider.”

“The West Wing” star Josh Malina posted a photo of Barrymore to Twitter/X with the word “SCAB” attached, while his former co-star Bradley Whitford wrote that “we’ll never forget” Barrymore’s decision to go back on the air amid the strikes.

Barrymore herself explained her decision to return in a Sept 10. social media post, writing, “I own this choice. We are in compliance with not discussing or promoting film and television that is struck of any kind. We launched live in a global pandemic. Our show was built for sensitive times and has only functioned through what the real world is going through in real time.”

After Barrymore posted about the return of her talk show, the Writers Guild of America, East shared a statement that read: “The Drew Barrymore TV show is a WGA covered, struck show that is planning to return without its writers. The Guild has, and will continue to picket struck shows that are in production during the strike. Any writing on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ is a violation of WGA strike rules.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: barrymore; hollywood; strike
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1 posted on 09/11/2023 11:53:36 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Let’s just sit back and let the Tinseltown Marxists eat each other alive.


2 posted on 09/11/2023 11:54:11 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: nickcarraway

but But BUT she NEEDS THE MONEY!!!


3 posted on 09/11/2023 11:57:47 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: nickcarraway

> Drew Barrymore has always been someone who recognized her privilege… <

More privilege-shaming. Well, at least they didn’t accuse Barrymore of a climate change crime. But maybe that will come later.


4 posted on 09/11/2023 12:00:59 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: nickcarraway

Why does a ‘talk’ show need writers?....................


5 posted on 09/11/2023 12:01:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: nickcarraway

It has always amazed me how quick pro-union people are to show their ugly side. Never a civil discussion on the pros and cons of unions - only vile threats and insults.

It’s like they want to be hated.


6 posted on 09/11/2023 12:14:44 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Red Badger

The same reason that government needs bureaucrats.


7 posted on 09/11/2023 12:15:53 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: enumerated

I’ve seen some of them treat people horribly who refused to knuckle under to them.


8 posted on 09/11/2023 12:21:01 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: nickcarraway

Bubble talk, bubble brains.

Struck as adjective. Hollywood bubble jargon.


9 posted on 09/11/2023 12:24:28 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s a nice TV set ya got there. Be a shame if.. ya know.. anything happened to it.


10 posted on 09/11/2023 12:25:00 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike, a helmet.)
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To: nickcarraway

Every Talk Show these days:

“That Trump is a real a-hole. Do you hate Donald Trump?”

“Yes, what he jerk he is!”

*audience applauds*


11 posted on 09/11/2023 12:25:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Please could those on strike do it forever?


12 posted on 09/11/2023 12:25:48 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, who cares?


13 posted on 09/11/2023 12:29:19 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: nickcarraway

No matter how liberal you have been for the past 30 years, and your parents for the 30 before, don’t think of going against the hivemind.

To them nothing that goes against the narrative is worthy of consideration.


14 posted on 09/11/2023 12:34:13 PM PDT by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
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To: nickcarraway

Based upon what I’ve seen most or all of the writers out there really suck at writing. They all seem to write the same thing over and over without seeming aware that they are not at all original. It’s downright bizarre.


15 posted on 09/11/2023 12:36:19 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: nickcarraway

don’t really care for Drew since she is as woke as they come, but ha ha ha ha ha I love seeing her irritate the left.


16 posted on 09/11/2023 12:41:45 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: enumerated

I think this particular group of aggrieved people are extra-upset because they’re discovering people are pretty much doing fine without them.


17 posted on 09/11/2023 12:47:56 PM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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“Drew Barrymore has always been someone who recognized her privilege ...”

I don’t even know what that is supposed to refer to, so I looked it up. Should she apologize for coming from a family of actors? Perhaps she should play the victim card, or the precocious child card: rehab at 13, mental institution, suicide attempt, rehab at 14, emancipation at 15.

Anyone who uses the word “privilege” had better back it up sensibly if I’m to take them seriously. That is seldom the case.


18 posted on 09/11/2023 12:57:49 PM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I wonder if Drew and Dylan are engaged yet?


19 posted on 09/11/2023 1:28:32 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Kind of like when Stalinists and Trotskyites fight each other.

Or rival gangs of Red Guards, during the Cultural Revolution.


20 posted on 09/11/2023 1:29:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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