'The Drew Barrymore Show' is back but the host was notably silent on the controversy surrounding her show during the WGA strike. In the show's first new episode since May, Barrymore launched straight into her sit down with Shania Twain, at the singers Vegas farm - halfway across the country from her New York City studio, where she had previously been met with pickets after announcing plans to bring back her WGA-covered daytime talk show without WGA writers in the midst of the strike.
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00:00 The Drew Barrymore show is back, but the host was notably silent on the controversy surrounding
00:04 her show during the WGA strike.
00:08 The host and actress sat down with Shania Twain, but abstained from making any comments
00:12 about her controversial return following the now-ended writer's strike.
00:16 In the show's first new episode since May, Barrymore launched straight into her sit-down
00:20 with Twain at the Singer's Vegas farm, halfway across the country from her New York City
00:25 studio where she had previously been met with pickets after announcing plans to bring back
00:30 her WGA-covered daytime talk show without WGA writers in the midst of the strike.
00:36 In the wide-ranging interview, Barrymore and Twain rode horses, chatted about songwriting,
00:40 medical health, and Twain's Vegas residency, among other topics.
00:44 Barrymore's return comes two weeks after several former writers declined to return to the show
00:49 following her initial announcement to bring back the show on September 10, while the strike
00:53 was still ongoing.
00:55 Following severe backlash, Barrymore opted to delay the show's return until the end of
00:59 the strike, apologizing through an Instagram post, saying, "I have no words to express
01:04 my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt, and of course to our incredible team."
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01:18 (upbeat music)