TV can be a brutal business because no show is too sacred for cancellation. That’s why Drew Barrymore is in celebration mode over her charming, eponymous talk show being renewed for Season 6. TV Insider caught up with Barrymore on the set of her upcoming game show Hollywood Squares , a reboot of the classic series in which she will be the illustrious center square, and she revealed a bit about how worried she was about The Drew Barrymore Show ‘s success.
“It’s never the way it looks on the outside. It was an intimidating time. It was an intimidating job.
And there’s just no guarantees,” she said of her uncertainty about the show’s staying power when it first hit the airwaves in 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. “I really did not think at certain points that we would ever get here.” For Barrymore, her joy about the renewal news is two-pronged: It provides personal satisfaction and practical stability for her crew.
“It is such a gift to everyone doing the show because then they know they have some job certainty. We’re not going year to year. This is the biggest gift and it gives us a huge sigh of relief,” she explained.
“We’ve been on fire for many years — like not as far as like success, but that feeling of the room on fire.” Amid the turbulence that has been the entertainment industry in recent years — from pandemic restrictions shutting down many sets to the dual Hollywood strikes that put a lot of productions on hold — making it to Season.