Drew Barrymore to Co-Host ‘The Essentials’ on TCM

A new season of Turner Classic Movies' Saturday evening salute to classic films, The Essentials, returns March 3, 2012 with a new co-host, Drew Barrymore. Barrymore will replace the outgoing Alec Baldwin to introduce classic movies alongside longtime host, Robert Osborne. The pair plan on introducing a mix of older classics and more contemporary films, including Dinner at Eight, which starred Drew's paternal grandfather John Barrymore (Grand Hotel, Twentieth Century) and grand-uncle Lionel Barrymore (It's a Wonderful Life). Other offerings this coming season will include To Have and Have Not with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, and The Third Man with Joseph Cotton and Orson Welles. Contemporary titles will include Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Steven Spielberg's sci-fi opus Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and former host Rob Reiner's hilarious mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. ''I'm a TCM nut. I watch Robert Osborne every day of my life. To get to talk about classic cinema with such a brilliant man, I am simply in heaven," the 36-year-old, who was recently dubbed the most overpaid actor in Hollywood by Forbes, gushes about her new gig. "This is just the most wonderful opportunity to discuss my greatest passion, which is movies."