Drew Barrymore Revealed as Host of 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards

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Kimberlee Speakman
Wed, March 15, 2023 at 5:02 AM PDT

Drew Barrymore is leading the pop culture charge at the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards!

The Drew Barrymore Show host, 48, will helm the May 7 show, which will bring the biggest and best in movies and TV under the roof of the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles.

The actress announced the big news in a short promo shot during a segment of her "Drew's News Report" on her daily talk show. In the video, Barrymore introduced a special correspondent, the doll from M3GAN (which is none other than Barrymore herself dressed in the M3GAN costume).

"Thank you Drew, I actually have news for you. You're hosting the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards! How exciting!," Barrymore as M3GAN said in the promo, as she began to dance in the doll's signature creepy style.



"Wow, I am so honored to be chosen, especially this year when the show is all about the fans," Barrymore added as the video cut back to her seated at her desk.

"I'm a fan and you're a fan of scary movies right?," Barrymore asked Ghostface from the Scream movie franchise who was sitting next to her.

"It is going to be an epic night. Big moments. Huge movie stars. Cocaine bear are you free on May 7? The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, we'll be there," she said as Ghostface and "Cocaine Bear" joined the shot.

"Will you?," she asked the audience as she turned to the side to reveal her wearing white M3GAN contacts as she winked at the camera.

Barrymore is no stranger to the MTV Movie & TV Awards scene, having nabbed nine nominations and taken home three Golden Popcorns throughout her lengthy career, which started on Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.

The actress won her first MTV Movie & TV Award for "Best Kiss" for her film The Wedding Singer and also won "Best On-Screen Team" for 2001's Charlie's Angels.

Barrymore was most recently nominated for Best Talk/Topical Show for The Drew Barrymore Show at the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED, and has been honored at the MTV Awards: Greatest of All Time in 2020 with fellow actor Adam Sandler as "Dynamic Duo."

The event — which will be broadcasted on MTV internationally in more than 150 countries — will be produced under Paramount Media Networks & MTV Entertainment Studios, the umbrella company for brands like MTV, Comedy Central, CMT, Paramount Network and TV Land.

The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will air live on May 7 at 8 PM ET/PT on MTV.

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MTV Movie & TV Awards trying to navigate the writers' strike

The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, which is slated to air live this Sunday from ... will move forward even as a writers strike is now underway.

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She backed out as host in solidarity with the striking writers.

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Originally Posted by JamesG

She backed out as host in solidarity with the striking writers.

https://deadline.com/2023/05/drew-ba...rs-1235356207/

Just an FYI, MTV's awards shows are notorious for following the practice of reality shows of hiring writers as producers to get around WGA rules. Patton Oswalt has alluded to it in the past.

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MTV Movie & TV Awards will look more like a clip show

The MTV Movie & TV Awards are still slated to take place this Sunday but the show will look different than usual.

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MTV Movie & TV Awards will look more like a clip show

The MTV Movie & TV Awards are still slated to take place this Sunday but the show will look different than usual.

2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards Will Not Be Held Live

The awards show will instead be a pre-taped ceremony airing Sunday at 8 p.m.

The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards will now be pivoting from a live ceremony to a pre-taped one on Sunday.

Bruce Gillmer, executive producer of the MTV Movie & TV Awards, released a statement Friday, saying, "As we carefully navigate how best to deliver the fan first awards' show we envisioned that our team has worked so hard to create, we're pivoting away from a live event that still enables us to produce a memorable night full of exclusive sneak peeks, irreverent categories our audience has come to expect and countless moments that will both surprise and delight as we honor the best of film and TV over the past year."

A source told The Hollywood Reporter that there will still be celebrity involvement via pre-taped acceptance speeches.

The ceremony was previously set to be held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, with Drew Barrymore as host, celebrity presenters and an audience. But the 50 First Dates actress announced earlier in the week that she would be dropping out, saying she's doing so in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America strike.

MTV's change in plans for the ceremony also comes after the WGA revealed earlier Friday that it was planning to picket the awards show. Writers have been on strike across Los Angeles and New York since May 2, after negotiations with studios and streamers collapsed the previous night.

MTV also previously called off the red carpet for the event.

The MTV Movie & TV Awards will still air Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on MTV with simulcasts on BET, BET Her, Comedy Central, CMT, Logo, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land, VH1.

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MTV Movie & TV Awards resembled a pandemic awards show

The writers' strike-era MTV Movie & TV Awards felt a lot like a pandemic ceremony.