The Drew Barrymore Show Sets Season 4 Return Following Strike Snafu — Get New Premiere Date
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It’s been a bumpy road to The Drew Barrymore Show‘s fourth season, but here we are: The daytime talk show will (finally) return to screens Monday, Oct. 16.
The Season 4 premiere date was announced Wednesday via an X post (fka Twitter) from the show’s official handle. Also on Wednesday, Kelly Clarkson revealed when her daytime chatfest will be back for Season 5.
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The Drew Barrymore Show's Writers Decline to Return After Strike Backlash
In early September, Barrymore and CBS Media Ventures announced that the series would be returning on Monday, Sept. 18 — regardless of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and SAG-AFTRA strikes that were ongoing at the time. (The writers’ strike has since ended; the actors’ strike has not.) The host defended the choice to return to air, but later apologized after taking heat for the controversial decision. As a result, she ultimately postponed the premiere.
“I believe there’s nothing I can do or say in this moment to make it OK,” Barrymore said in a (now-deleted) video posted to Instagram Sept. 15. “I wanted to own a decision, so that it wasn’t a PR-protected situation, and I would just take full responsibility for my actions.”
She continued: “There are so many reasons why this is so complex, and I just want everyone to know my intentions have never been in a place to upset or hurt anyone. That’s not who I am… I deeply apologize to writers. I deeply apologize to unions. I deeply apologize.”
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The WGA had responded to Barrymore’s initial statement with a brief post on X, reiterating that any writing done on The Drew Barrymore Show‘s new season “is in violation of WGA strike rules.”
“The @DrewBarrymoreTV Show is a WGA covered, struck show that is planning to return without its writers,” the WGA stated at the time. “The Guild has, and will continue to, picket struck shows that are in production during the strike.”
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