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Drew Barrymore STEPS DOWN arsenic Host of 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards
There's been different shakeup to the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards.
The May 7 amusement volition not be broadcasted unrecorded arsenic antecedently planned following host Drew Barrymore's exit, according to enforcement producer Bruce Gillmer.
"As we cautiously navigate however champion to present the instrumentality archetypal awards' amusement we envisioned that our squad has worked truthful hard to create," helium said successful a connection to E! News May 5, "we're pivoting distant from a unrecorded lawsuit that inactive enables america to nutrient a memorable nighttime afloat of exclusive sneak peaks, irreverent categories our assemblage has travel to expect, and countless moments that volition some astonishment and delight arsenic we grant the champion of movie and TV implicit the past year.
A pre-taped ceremonial is scheduled to air in spot of the unrecorded broadcast.
News of the alteration comes 1 time after Barrymore announced she was stepping down arsenic host astatine this year's awards amusement successful solidarity with the striking members of the Writers Guild of America.
"I person listened to the writers, and successful bid to genuinely respect them, I volition pivot from hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards live," she said successful a connection to Variety. "Everything we observe and grant astir movies and tv is calved retired of their creation. And until a solution is reached, I americium choosing to hold but I'll beryllium watching from location and anticipation you volition articulation me."
However, the Charlie's Angels alum noted that she hopes to big the 2024 ceremony. "I convey MTV, who has genuinely been immoderate of the champion partners I person ever worked with," she continued. "And I can't hold to beryllium a portion of this adjacent year, erstwhile I tin genuinely observe everything that MTV has created, which is simply a amusement that allows fans to take who the awards spell to and is genuinely inclusive."
At the time, Gillmer said the web supported her decision. "She is not surprisingly, lasting successful solidarity with the writers," he told Variety, "which we person afloat respect for."
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The WGA went connected onslaught May 2 aft six weeks of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) broke down. Since then, galore productions person been affected.
For one, an occurrence of Saturday Night Live initially slated to diagnostic Pete Davidson arsenic big and Lil Uzi Vert arsenic the philharmonic impermanent was canceled earlier this week owed to the strike. Late-night shows similar The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert have besides gone dark.
"The WGA Negotiating Committee began this process intent connected making a just deal," the guild said successful a connection up of the strike, "but the studios' responses person been wholly insufficient fixed the existential situation writers are facing."
The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will aerial May 7 astatine 8 p.m. ET connected MTV with simulcasts connected BET, BET Her, Comedy Central, CMT, Logo, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land and VH1.
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