Backing up for Drew Barrymore. The American actress, heavily criticized after announcing the return of her talk show despite the strike that paralyzed Hollywood, reverses her decision. the star of Drew Barrymore Show He said Saturday that the show ultimately won’t air until an agreement is signed between the strikers and the studios.
“I listened to everyone and made the decision to suspend the resumption of the program until the strike is over,” he wrote on Instagram on Saturday.
“I have no words to express my sincere apologies to everyone I have hurt and of course to our wonderful team who works on the show.”
The day before, the Charlie’s Angels actress had sent an emotional apology in a video message, without retracting her decision to resume broadcasting. As noted vanity fairThis video was quickly deleted.
Months of crisis
The Hollywood screenwriters union, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), started a strike at the beginning of May demand better compensation for large studios and the establishment of safeguards against the development of AI. American talk shows that use authors have since ground to a halt.
The announcement of the resumption of the Drew Barrymore show immediately generated a lot of criticism on social media and among strikers. In a press release sent to hollywood reporterCBS (the broadcasting network) assured that the program would not use any “scripts affected by the writers’ strike”, which meant, according to the magazine, that these new episodes would not have a script.
However, the strikers had estimated that this resumption encouraged people to cross the picket line. Thus, several of them demonstrated in front of the CBS offices in New York on Monday, September 11, during the filming of the new episodes.
Source: BFM TV
