CTD's 'Drew Barrymore' Preps for Premiere
Opening week includes appearances from Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Adam Sandler and more
CBS Television Distribution’s new one-hour daily talker, The Drew Barrymore Show, premieres Monday, Sept. 14, with a star-studded premiere week, kicking off with a Charlie’s Angels reunion with Lucy Liu and Cameron Diaz, as well as an appearance from Barrymore’s frequent co-star, Adam Sandler.
Reese Witherspoon and Billy Eichner join Barrymore on Tuesday, with Eichner playing a game of “Would Drew Barrymore Like That?” a skit from his own show. Jane Fonda promotes her new book on climate change on Wednesday, and Barrymore helps actress Gabrielle Union to surprise a small-business owner. Designer Christian Siriano also leads a quarantine fashion show.
Charlize Theron and Tyra Banks come by on Thursday and the week wraps up with a singing performance by Billy Porter on Friday. Barrymore will send her audience into the weekend with signature segment, “The Weekender,” in which she points out some of her favorite things.
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Online, part one of docuseries The Making of The Drew Barrymore Show launches Tuesday, with Barrymore taking viewers behind the scenes as she and her team worked to mount a new talk show during the global pandemic and resulting quarantine.
Besides celebrity interviews and appearances, The Drew Barrymore Show also will feature news, human-interest stories and lifestyle segments when it premieres on Sept. 14.
The one-hour nationally syndicated daytime show is produced and distributed by CBS Television Distribution and filmed in New York City. Barrymore, Chris Miller, Ember Truesdell and Jason Kurtz are executive producers.
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Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.