The Drew Barrymore Show

The Drew Barrymore Show is a first-run syndicated American talk show[3][4][5] hosted[6] by actress Drew Barrymore. The show is distributed by CBS Media Ventures[7][8] and debuted on September 14, 2020.[9][10][11]

The Drew Barrymore Show
GenreVariety talk show
Created byDrew Barrymore
Directed byAdam Heydt
Presented byDrew Barrymore
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes80 (as of January 21, 2021)[1]
Production
Executive producers
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Jason Kurtz
  • Chris Miller
  • Ember Truesdell
Production locationsCBS Broadcast Center,[2] New York City
Camera setupMultiple
Running time43 minutes
Production companiesBig Ticket Pictures
Flower Films
DistributorCBS Media Ventures
Release
Original networkSyndication
Picture formatHDTV 1080i
Audio formatStereophonic
Original releaseSeptember 14, 2020 (2020-09-14) –
present (present)
External links
Website

Concept

The program's press release[12] stated that Drew Barrymore[13][14] would present human-interest stories,[15] celebrity guests, lifestyle segments and field pieces.

Production

Barrymore shot a pilot for the show in New York back in August 2019,[16] aiming for a fall 2020 launch. Barrymore had previously circled a talk show deal with Warner Bros.' Telepictures[17] in 2016, but a pilot never came to fruition, in part because of a lukewarm response from prospective station groups at the time.

According to Barrymore, a big part of the appeal of wanting to host a talk show was that it would allow her to maintain a reasonable lifestyle as the mother of two young girls — ages 6 and 8 — in contrast to working on a film set where it’s not unusual for actors to work “4 a.m. to 11 p.m.”. Barrymore also said of The Drew Barrymore Show “I’m in the joy business. I don’t carry the umbrella of darkness with me. I didn’t want to let go of everything I’ve done and who I was. I wanted to make a new application of all that in a way that better served me schedule-wise.”

Barrymore debuted several digital series[18] in the lead-up to her broadcast debut that included “The Making of the Drew Barrymore Show”[19] and conversations with talk-show hosts who have inspired her in “The Art of the Interview.”[20] This particular series included Barrymore's conversations with Gayle King, Andy Cohen, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg, and Sean Evans.

Barrymore also launched “Drew's Movie Nite”, in which she would invite fans to join her in a live Twitter watch party. The series kicked off on July 30, 2020 with the Nickelodeon broadcast of the 1997 film Good Burger.[21] Also featured was Barrymore's interview with the stars of Good Burger, Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson.

The next edition of “Drew's Movie Nite” was the Nickelodeon broadcast of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water[22] from 2015 on September 3, 2020. This time, Barrymore interviewed the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, Tom Kenny and the voice of Patrick Star, Bill Fagerbakke. The third edition of “Drew's Movie Nite”, this time aired on CBS on October 25, 2020, and was the 1996 film Scream[23] starring Barrymore.

The show launched in fall 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The launch took place with a small crew at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, with pandemic-related rules and precautions. Instead of an in-person audience, members of a virtual crowd would be beamed in via a platform called Audience From Anywhere and projected on a large display behind Barrymore. Meanwhile, guests who live on the West Coast have the option to appear via green-screen and sit across from the host.[24][25][26] Barrymore said “I think the limitations of the pandemic made us a more modern show. When forced to think differently, we tried to turn every obstacle into an opportunity.”

Barrymore also fought really hard to have the show be produced live[27][28] at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. According to Barrymore, she thought it would be appropriate to be doing this where she could speak to the moment rather than risk being a day or two old. Barrymore added that the type of energy when the show came out could be totally unattached. Barrymore also argued against doing a home-based show amid the pandemic saying "I basically kicked and screamed 'I will do this show on a street corner with a camera and me and one person." She continued by saying "I’m not doing a home show. I don’t want to do it. I don’t like watching them.' I love what Jimmy Fallon did with his, and I thought a lot of people really rose to the occasion and did some extraordinary things. But the reason a lot of the home shows were so exciting to watch is because they were well-established. I was scared that if I started a home show, I would stay stuck there. It terrified me."

Barrymore also said[29] in regards to her decision to do a live show everyday “It’s a lot. But you know, what’s the alternative? There’s none. We got one life. This is it. I’m going to burn the (bleep) out of that candle at every moment.” She adds: "I thought, ‘If there’s one thing 2020 demands, it’s live television. You have to be up to the second in this day and age. It’s, like, so wild to be a live show that wants to talk about the world we’re living in while not talking about politics or being political or trying to alienate people.”

Episodes

The debut episode featured guest appearances by Barrymore's former co-stars Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu and Adam Sandler.[30]

The September 25, 2020 episode featured Barrymore reuniting[31] with her ex-husband Tom Green after having not spoken to each other in over 15 years.[32] The two reminisced on their time together and years apart, which made Barrymore cry after she realized how much time had passed. 

The October 12, 2020 episode featured Barrymore interviewing Chloe Fineman[33] following Fineman's impersonation of Barrymore on the October 3, 2020 edition of Saturday Night Live. Barrymore said to the second-year SNL player "I’m really nervous to meet you, I’m so excited, I’m such a fan," for which Fineman responded by saying “I’m your biggest fan, you’re gonna make me cry!" Fineman added: “I mean doing you was so exciting because you were on the cover of InStyle and the impression that I did this summer started because I really wanted that shirt. It was so cute.”

Also on October 12, Barrymore interviewed actress Jessica Alba,[34] with whom Barrymore co-starred in the 1999 film Never Been Kissed. Besides reminiscing[35] about their time filming Never Been Kissed, Barrymore and Alba danced together as they took on TikTok's "Ahi Challenge".[36]

On the October 16, 2020 episode, Barrymore invited psychic Anna Raimondi[37] to give her a reading. Raimondi said that she sensed the presence of a "judge". This revelation revelation caused Barrymore to burst into tears, explaining that it must be David, the dead relative of her ex-husband Will Kopelman who was a judge. But according to Kopelman, that judge in question at the time of the episode's airing, was very much alive. Kopelman soon called Raimondi a “submental hack[38] working the talk show circuit.” A representative for Barrymore later clarified, “The grandfather of Will is Frank, who was a judge and is deceased. David is…Will’s uncle, who’s alive and also a judge. That was the confusion.”

For the October 30, 2020 episode, Barrymore celebrated Halloween by dressing up as Glinda the Good Witch[39] from The Wizard of Oz. Barrymore was joined by Ross Mathews, who was costumed as the twister that carries Dorothy from Kansas to Oz and Ashley Park, who sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

The November 6, 2020 episode featured Barrymore in the "Drew's News" segment revive her teen character from Never Been Kissed, Josie "Grossie" Geller.[40] Sporting her satin pink prom dress, matching scrunchie and braces, Josie stepped straight out of 1988 for the bit—with no knowledge of anything that's happened since then.

For the November 20, 2020 episode, Barrymore teamed with Walmart+ to present a frontline nurse named Selina and a high school teacher with their dream wedding. But the show's videos posted to YouTube were soon filled with comments alleging that the couple met when she was a 17-year-old student[41][42] in his physics class. Neither the show nor the couple have responded to the allegations.

Broadcast

The CBS Television Stations group was on board to anchor the launch of The Drew Barrymore Show, including on KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and WCBS-TV in New York City. Overall, the show had been cleared to launch on stations representing 85%[43] of U.S. TV households.[44] In Canada, Global[45] announced on August 18, 2020, that they would pick up The Drew Barrymore Show prior to its September 14[46] launch.

Reception

The premiere episode on September 14, 2020 was "a real emotional roller coaster"[47] according to Jezebel's Rich Juzwiak. He added "The enthusiasm was massive, the veracity was questionable, the performance was distracting. She shifted gears in the next paragraph of her monologue to reintroduce herself, remind us that she is exactly who we think she is, and suggest that she’s so much more. With the impassioned face of a celebrity raising funds on a telethon, Barrymore said emphatically that, 'I’m also someone who is learning all the time, and I’m so excited to figure out this thing called life with you!' Wait, that’s what we’re doing here? Then she started shouting that, 'We’re gonna learn! Laugh! Cry! Cook! Heal! ALL OF IT!' Well, paint that on a piece of wood and hang it in your country kitchen. 'And I’m committed to putting all aspects of life into this show every day,' she continued. It’s only an hourlong show?" Juzwiak also said[48] that Barrymore has been a nonstop ball of energy, which can be exhausting and endearing.

Meanwhile, Variety's Daniel D'Addario said[49] that "The best talk show hosts are made into stars by the medium. To wit: Rosie O'Donnell was a well-known comic and actor but hardly the dynamo she eventually became when she began her daily show. She reinvented the medium that had, before her, been dominated by former local news anchor Oprah Winfrey. Both these stars did not bring to bear huge amounts of persona that was already known to the audience, so they had to work to carry across an idea of themself with each episode and segment. At their best, you walked away from their shows knowing O’Donnell and Winfrey in a way you might not otherwise have, before. Drew Barrymore, a newly-minted talk show host with her Drew Barrymore Show carried in daytime by CBS stations, has less of herself to introduce, and, more crucially, less apparent desire to do so."

D'Addario added that Barrymore was hampered in her first week by her reliance on celebrity friends, saying "Barrymore’s show is squarely in her comfort zone, and as such is in the comfort zone of any celebrity; it’s so soft and unthreatening, though, as to often make us feel we know subjects and interviewer both less well when the interview is done. We hardly need a Mike Wallace-style expose on the stars Barrymore books; that’d be weird in daytime, and it’s not what viewers look to Barrymore for. But — speaking as a Barrymore fan who was excited to see her in conversation — there is as yet untapped potential for her to dig deeper, to show us more of what she really believes or finds important."

William Hughes of The A.V. Club said[50] that there have been two major takeaways from The Drew Barrymore Show after one week: "Drew Barrymore definitely has a lot of cool, famous friends, and Drew Barrymore sometimes acts in ways that are tremendously weird when asked to talk into a camera by herself. The combination has formed some of the most hypnotically, authentically strange TV the internet has had a chance to dine out on in a while, as Barrymore jumps between recreating famous movies she’s made with her buddies, to monologuing, for minutes at a time, about her love of removing stains from T-shirts."

Tracy Moore of Vanity Fair said[51] that it's remarkable that "something so offbeat is happening on daytime at all" of the "low-key insanity" of The Drew Barrymore Show. Moore also said of Barrymore "She cooks; she interior designs; she feels. She talks in hashtags, and casually drops quotes from Gayle King, Patti Smith, and e.e. cummings. She is, it seems, genuinely in awe of everyone and everything, a self-described 'human scrapbook of news,' a 'pop culture junkie,' a lover of people and stain removal."

Jessica Toomer of Uproxx proclaimed that 2020 was the year Drew Barrymore blew up the daytime talk show machine.[52] Toomer added that "Drew Barrymore’s show is all of those things. The kind of mind-numbing social experiment that rivals the frenzied delirium of a Safdie Brothers crime saga but interjects just enough PBS-after-school-special cheer to quiet the shrieking happening inside your brain as you watch. It’s not pretty all the time. Sometimes, it’s not even coherent. But like a 1994-era Chloë Sevigny, it’s the kind of “It Girl” of the talk show universe that you just can’t quite define, but know you should worship anyway."

Ratings

In its second week, The Drew Barrymore Show was down 14%, grabbing only 600,000 viewers.[53] Hot Bench, the show that The Drew Barrymore Show replaced in many markets, was steady at 1.7 million. According to an October 15, 2020 report[54] from OK Magazine, the show had already dropped 38% in ratings since it premiered.

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