September 8 - 14, 2024
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BY JAY BOBBIN
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OF THE DREW BARRYMORE SHOW ON SYNDICATED Q: Will “The Drew Barrymore Show” be continuing for the new TV season? A: It is. The syndicated, CBS-distributed weekday talk show actually got an early renewal for a fifth round last January, not long after it began its fourth stanza, which was delayed — as so many programs were — by the writers’ and actors’ strikes. (Barrymore had been enmeshed in a controversy over that situation, since she had planned to put her program back in production while the strikes were ongoing, but she reversed those plans, though a couple of her writers ultimately left.) In fact, the show already has been renewed for a sixth year, which will take it through the 2025-26 season. Though she’s sometimes criticized over how close she gets to her guests, literally as well as figuratively, the effusive Barrymore’s Daytime Emmy-winning show is a popular stop for celebrities … particularly those she has a personal connection to, often from her acting and producing careers, such as Adam Sandler, Cameron Diaz and Jimmy Fallon (Fallon’s wife, Nancy Juvonen, is Barrymore’s partner in the company Flower Films). In some cases, Barrymore has been landing daytime-exclusive interviews, such as the session she had early this year with the principal female cast of the FX drama “Feud: Capote vs. The Swans” (which included Naomi Watts, Diane Lane and Demi Moore). The host also had a much-reported on-air conversation with Vice President, and current presidential candidate, Kamala Harris.
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Another aspect that has likely helped “The Drew Barrymore Show” is the format it’s had since its third season, which gives a station the flexibility to run it as two self-contained half-hours, either adjacent to each other or in different parts of the programming day. That was likely a help to some “Drew”-carrying NBC affiliates during the recent Paris Olympics, when the network’s usual weekday schedule was altered and turned local time periods over to stations that normally didn’t have those to have to fill.