‘The Drew Barrymore Show’ Met With Pickets Upon Its Mid-Writers Strike Return, Audience Members Evicted For Wearing WGA Badges
etcanada.com“The Drew Barrymore Show” sustained striking members of the Writers Guild as it returned to the studio on Monday to film two episodes of the upcoming fourth season.
The protesters gathered outside New York’s CBS Broadcast Center early Monday morning as they marched against the show’s return and attempted to prevent Barrymore and her guests from crossing their picket line.
Nonetheless, their efforts didn’t stop the show from going on as the daytime talk show host and her unknown guests snuck in through the back of the blocks-long CBS complex.
The show also welcomed back in-studio audiences at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. However, two college students who scored tickets to the taping claimed they were kicked out of the building after security officers noticed them wearing WGA strike buttons. “We even offered to take them off,” Cassidy Carter told Deadline outside the CBS building, minutes after being thrown out.
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