Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Drew Barrymore’s talk show returned for its fourth season Oct. 16 without its writing staff.
And it proved that it’s possible to run a show like this without writers — just so long as you whittle away any connective tissue that makes an interview legible.
And maybe include some long, wordless sequences of horseback riding for good measure. Barrymore, who earlier this year seemed to be riding high as one of the standard-bearers of the sweetly sunny post-Ellen daytime landscape, tanked her public image last month with a subset of the audience by announcing that she’d be bringing her show back Sept.
18, before the WGA strike had concluded. Although she reversed her decision, her writers departed the show, leaving Barrymore in the unenviable position of having to launch her show when she would have, anyway, just without the people who string it all together.
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