Sherri Shepherd Addresses Talk Show Return: “Us Coming Back To Work Isn’t Crossing The Picket Line”

This is Day 86 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

This is Day 83 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air for a new episode of his late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday (October 2) after a months-long break due to the writers strike.

Jimmy Kimmel is back with a little help from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This is Day 82 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

Now that the WGA strike is over, talk shows that have been dark since May will be returning with new episodes next week.

“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year.

It was everything everywhere all at once Thursday in New York City: Striking actors getting ready for contract talks were joined by writers who have just wrapped up theirs at a rally in Manhattan that also highlighted Asian American Pacific Islander culture in film and television. 

This is Day 76 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

This is Day 76 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. 

This is Day 144 of the WGA strike and Day 71 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Selome Hailu Shortly after becoming one of the only daytime talk show host to return for the fall amid the Hollywood strikes, Sherri Shepherd has tested positive for COVID and will pause production on “Sherri.” “Unfortunately, Sherri has tested positive for COVID. The show will return with original episodes as soon as possible,” said a statement posted to the show’s Instagram page.

Just two days after Sherri Shepherd kicked off the second season of her syndicated daytime talk show The Sherri Shepherd Show, Shepherd has tested positive for Covid.

BreAnna Bell Sherri Shepherd attempts to clear any confusion regarding The “Sherri” show’s return amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in her Season 2 return on Monday. The actress and comedian opened the show addressing the controversy, telling viewers that the talk show is not in violation of the guild’s strike rules by returning despite other shows like “The Talk” and “The Drew Barrymore Show” going on pause shortly after announcing their returns.

earlier this month after announcing that her talk show would resume production amid ongoing for fair wages and workplace improvements in Hollywood. While hosting the show does not inherently break the SAG-AFTRA strike requirements, the talk show has employed WGA writers, some of whom when The Drew Barrymore Show began taping on Monday, September 11. All this to say, any writing on the show would be of the WGA strike.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.After an entire week of backlash, picketing, and urges from actors and writers to reconsider, Barrymore has reversed her decision.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Drew Barrymore isn’t bringing back her daytime talk show “The Drew Barrymore Show” until the strike ends, after all. The decision comes a week after the actor was criticized for saying “The Drew Barrymore Show” would premiere on Sept. 18 in compliance with WGA guidelines and without writers.

wrote Barrymore, 48, on Instagram.“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. We really tried to find our way forward.”The “Charlie’s Angels” star released the statement after a week of online backlash and protests outside the CBS Broadcast Center in Midtown.The “50 First Dates” actress added that she truly hopes “for a resolution for the entire industry very soon.” The Post contacted reps for Barrymore and CBS Media Ventures, which produces and distributes the show.

Drew Barrymore says she’s putting the return of her daytime talk show on hold amid backlash until the strikes are over.

As word spread of contract talks resuming between the striking Writers Guild and the AMPTP, striking SAG-AFTRA members continued with their pickets on Friday morning outside film and television studio addresses in New York City.

Hollywood writer’s strike war rages on, Bill Maher just wants to get his check. The “Real Time with Bill Maher” host, 67, will return to HBO with his eponymous talk show without writers on Sept. 22.