‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’ Delays Premiere amid Ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA Strikes

The Show Jennifer Hudson has postponed the planned premiere date.

The second season of Hudson’s talk show was originally scheduled to air Monday, but will be delayed, PEOPLE has learned. The new date has not yet been announced. The decision comes amid growing backlash against the talk show in light of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Diversity was the first to publish the news.

The backlash started last week when Drew Barrymore made the announcement The Drew Barrymore Show will begin filming its new season despite the strike. At the time, she wrote on Instagram about the decision: “I own this choice.”

In the days that followed, she faced a lot of public opposition and was accused of crossing the line by continuing her show. On top of that, two audience members who attended the first taping were kicked out for wearing pins and T-shirts in support of the strikes.

IN publish on X (formerly known as Twitter), Dominic Turiczek wrote that he and his friend were “kicked out and verbally assaulted by @DrewBarrymore’s crew.”

A rep for the show expressed “regret” over the way the situation was handled in a statement shared with PEOPLE, adding that “Drew was not aware of the incident.”

Drew Barrymore at the 2023 Mark Twain Award for American Humor.

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After sharing a since-deleted apology video on Instagram and trying to explain her decision, Barrymore, 48, announced on Sunday that her show would pause production until the strike ends.

“I have no words to express my deepest apologies to everyone I’ve hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who work on the show and made it what it is today,” the actress wrote in a statement she shared on Instagram. “We really tried to find a way forward.”

Khloé Kardashian and Jennifer Hudson on ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’. Chris Millard/Warner Bros.

This was confirmed by PEOPLE on Sunday Conversation will delay the premiere date of season 14.

“Conversation is pausing the season premiere set for September 18,” CBS said in a statement to PEOPLE on Sunday. “We will continue to evaluate plans for a new launch date.”

After it was announced on Wednesday that the show was returning amid the Hollywood strikes,Deadline reported that WGA members began protesting outside the Radford Studio Center in Studio City, California, where Conversation and other CBS productions are also being filmed.

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Jennifer Hudson and Kamala Harris in ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’. Chris Millard/Warner Bros.

Hudson became emotional when it was first announced that her talk show would be returning for a second season in January.

“I think this happens to all of us as adults. We’re so busy doing things that we never stop to think, ‘This is what I prayed for, this is what I wanted, this is happening.’ And embrace it,” she said during the post. – Well, this is one of those moments.

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She also applauded the fans as well as the crew and staff The Jennifer Hudson Show, who work “like nobody’s business” to gather a series of conversations.

“I’m still processing the fact that Jennifer got the gig!” she said.

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