Drew Barrymore defends resuming talk show despite Hollywood strikes
nme.comThe Hollywood Reporter, The Drew Barrymore Show is produced and distributed by CBS Media Ventures, which is part of Paramount Global — one of the media companies WGA writers are currently striking against.
In order to resume production, the show will resume without any writing or literary work so that it is compliant with the terms of the strike.Despite this, the union criticised the move and picketed outside CBS Broadcast Center in New York as taping resumed this week.“I certainly couldn’t have expected this kind of attention,” Barrymore said in a video shared to social media. “We aren’t gonna break rules, and we will be in compliance.
I wanted to do this because as I said, this is bigger than me, and there are other people’s jobs on the line.“I don’t exactly know what to say because sometimes when things are so tough, it’s hard to make decisions from that place,” she said. “So all I can say is that I wanted to accept responsibility, and now I don’t have a PR machine behind this.
My decision to go back to the show — I didn’t want to hide behind people. I won’t polish this with bells and whistles and publicists and corporate rhetoric.
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