After a late begin to its fourth season and behind-the-scenes turmoil, The Drew Barrymore Show has acquired and early, drama-free renewal for a fifth season on the CBS Stations.
It is the primary pickup for the syndicated daytime talker because the main reorganization on the present’s producer and distributor CBS Media Ventures, which was put below the purview of Wendy McMahon, now President and CEO of CBS News and Stations and CBS Media Ventures.
The renewal additionally comes after a rocky fall for The Drew Barrymore Show whose host initially introduced a Sept. 18 return, whereas the writers have been nonetheless hanging, earlier than reversing the choice amid picketing of the present and outcry from WGA members.
Season 4 as a substitute launched post-strike on Oct. 16 however with out this system’s three WGA-member writers who declined to return and had to get replaced.
Whether it was followers of the present shifting previous the controversy or the dearth of authentic leisure programming within the fall because of the double WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, The Drew Barrymore Show has been averaging a good 1.1 million viewers, rising from October to December +9% in households and +4% in whole viewers.
The program’s core launch group, CBS Stations, stay anchor for the present in main markets, together with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It is now renewed by way of 2025, matching the time period for fellow daytime talker, NBCU’s The Kelly Clarkson Show.
“The Drew Barrymore Show is firing on all cylinders this season,” McMahon stated. “Drew continues to catapult the show into the cultural zeitgeist with her empathetic and thoughtful interviews transporting viewers into her living room, where they feel like they are listening to a conversation between two friends that they are a part of. It’s an experience unlike any other in television. Drew is truly creating magic in daytime, and we’re thrilled to continue to bring that to our stations.”
Next on The Drew Barrymore Show is the solid of the brand new Mean Girls movie, together with Renee Rapp, Angourie Rice, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Auli’I Cravalho and Jaquel Spivey, in a particular episode airing tomorrow, Jan. 12.
In a daytime TV unique, the solid of FX’s upcoming Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, Naomi Watts, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald and Calista Flockhart, can be on this system. Also slated to look within the coming weeks are Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Annette Bening, Dan Levy, Isla Fisher, Lucy Hale, Clive Owen, Andie MacDowell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jamie Oliver and Chrissy Teigen.
The nationally syndicated daytime present is filmed in New York City. Barrymore and Jason Kurtz are govt producers.