Drew Barrymore is proving her dominance once again, as the multi-talented star kicks off her talk show’s latest chapter with record-setting ratings.
On September 14, 2026, the Charlie’s Angels star’s The Drew Barrymore Show aired the first episode of its seventh season. According to Deadline, the episode has broken the record for the highest viewership ever for a premiere.
The episode also recorded an individual milestone by garnering the highest number of views in terms of total viewers. The report stated that the viewership skyrocketed 21% more than the numbers recorded during the premiere of the last season. The average total viewers were recorded at 1.8 million.
Additionally, The Drew Barrymore Show ranks third among syndicated talk shows in household ratings, total viewership, and viewership among women aged 18 to 49 and adults aged 25 to 54.
What is Drew Barrymore best known for starring in?
Barrymore first captured international attention as a child actress in 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, playing young Gertie in the iconic Steven Spielberg sci-fi classic. Decades later, she established herself as a leading romantic comedy star through a series of box office hits.
In Frank Coraci’s romantic comedy The Wedding Singer, Barrymore starred as Julia, a waitress who falls for Adam Sandler’s wedding crooner Robbie. The duo reunited for 50 First Dates, featuring Barrymore as Lucy Whitmore alongside Sandler’s Henry Roth. She also starred as undercover reporter Jossie Geller in the 1999 hit Never Been Kissed.
Beyond her rom-com catalog, Barrymore co-starred as Dylan in the action blockbuster Charlie’s Angels alongside Cameron Diaz’s Natalie and Lucy Liu’s Alex. According to the film’s synopsis on IMDb, “Three private investigators are assigned to track down a kidnapped software engineer, but the case isn’t as straightforward as it seems.”
Barrymore also made horror movie history as Casey Becker in the opening sequence of Wes Craven’s slasher classic Scream.
Originally reported on ComingSoon.
