Drew Barrymore's Writers Are Gone Baby Gone

div class="node-media"img src="https://crooksandliars.com/files/embeds/2023/10/57549.jpg" //divpspan“The Drew Barrymore Show” is coming back on Oct. 16, about a month after she announced she would be violating the Writers Guild of America strike by producing new episodes. Though she later reversed her decision to cross the picket line and kept the show off-air, the show’s three co-head writers/spana href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/drew-barrymore-show-writers-decline-return-1235606269/"span /spanspanwon’t be coming back/span/aspan—by their own decision. Leaving a steady job writing for television is a big move, but apparently, Barrymore’s writers felt too disrespected to return. /span/p

pspanIt wasn’t just that Barrymore announced her show would violate the WGA strike rules to go back on the air in September: She didn’t even notify the striking writers. They found out via social media. /span/p

pspan“It is a bummer to hear that the show is going back because it sends a message that union writers are not valuable,” writer Chelsea White told The Hollywood Reporter at the time. It seems that Barrymore’s apology when she reversed the decision—“I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today”—wasn’t enough./span/ppa href="https://crooksandliars.com/2023/10/drew-barrymores-writers-are-gone-baby-gone" target="_blank"read more/a/p