The View

The season premiere of the long-running ABC daytime talk series saw declines versus last year, including a sharp dropoff among women 25-54. The View averaged a 1.0 in that demo for Tuesday’s opener, off 47% from last fall. It also averaged a 2.5 household rating, according to Nielsen, down 22%. However, the show was facing tough comparison to last year, when The View notched its best premiere audience in eight years.

Lately, there has been enough drama and fireworks both in front of and behind the cameras at ABC’s The View to make Jerry Springer seem sedate and General Hospital feel realistic. The revolving door of hosts and producers over the past few seasons has led to what people close to the show describe as a “toxic environment” on the set, and viewers have grown impatient and fled.

Bill Wolff is leaving his post as executive producer of ABC’s The View, the latest shakeup on the daytime series that has had nothing but turmoil in front of and behind the camera during the past two years.

In the latest surprise on ABC’s The View, comedian Joy Behar is returning to co-host the daytime talk show as part of a massive overhaul of the show’s hosting team for its upcoming 19th season.

Hosting turnover and ratings declines have marred the year since co-creator Barbara Walters left. But advertisers are rooting for the show. Here are four ways to get it back on track.

Nicolle Wallace will be signing off from The View for good, after she turned down an offer from ABC to appear on the morning talk show as an occasional contributor in the fall, Variety has learned. She’s expected to say goodbye on one of the final remaining shows before The View’s summer hiatus, which starts next week.

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The addition of Shepherd is part of The View overhaul this summer as ABC News is looking to reignite the veteran daytime talk show to its former ratings glory after a turbulent 18th season, the first without co-creator Barbara Walters.

As ABC’s The View heads toward its summer hiatus, ABC is in final negotiations to add Candace Cameron Bure and GMA Weekend anchor Paula Faris as co-hosts of the daytime talk show in the fall.

The 43-year-old Republican political commentator and former White House staffer under President George W. Bush will not return as a permanent co-host next season, according to an insider with knowledge. Wallace exits the show just one week after ABC announced that colleague Rosie Perez would also depart.

Paula Faris, the co-anchor of GMA Weekend, is in talks to join The View, as ABC executives are preparing for another major shakeup on the morning talk show for its 19th season.

Michelle Collins has officially been named the newest co-host of The View, ABC announced today. The comedian will take a seat alongside moderator Whoopi Goldberg and newest panelist Raven Symone. Collins was named the 15th co-host of the daytime talk show during Monday’s episode.

Michelle Collins has joined The View as a co-host. The comedian has been a regular guest host on the show, and was in discussions to become a full-time contributor. As previously reported, The View plans to rotate a small stable of contributors next season, its 19th. Molly Sims is also expected to be a member of that swiveling group.

Her last day on the ABC News program will coincide with the last original show of the season on Aug. 6. Expect her to talk about her exit on Wednesday’s broadcast. No word yet on the future of co-host Nicolle Wallace. Raven Symone, who only joined the show in June, and Whoopi Goldberg are locks to come back next season, but Wallace’s future is unclear.

ABC executives are finalizing a plan to reboot The View next fall, for the second consecutive year, with a flurry of changes that could include the departure of at least one of its regular hosts. While moderator Whoopi Goldberg will remain as the face of the struggling daytime talker, the future of two of her co-hosts, Nicolle Wallace and Rosie Perez, is in doubt.

After 37 appearances as guest co-host on the weekday talk show, she joins the panel alongside moderator Whoopi Goldberg and co-hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rosie Perez effective immediately.

Rosie O’Donnell’s made her surprising exit from the show less than a week after announcing that she would be ending her second stint on The View. She said goodbye on Thursday’s episode in a segment shy of 40-seconds long.

Rosie O’Donnell’s sudden depature as co-host due to health reasons puts the future of the struggling ABC talker in doubt. The shows future had looked good when O’Donnell returned five months ago, seven years after her original run ended, bringing ratings for the season premiere to an 8-year high.

Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View after just five months to focus on her family. “I can confirm that Rosie and her wife Michelle split in November,” O’Donnell’s representative said Friday in a statement. “Rosie has teens and an infant at home that need her attention. This has been a very stressful situation. She is putting her personal health and family first. ABC has been wonderfully understanding and supportive of her personal decision to leave The View. Next week will be her last.”

ABC has put the brakes on a plan to fire Rosie Perez from The View, after Variety broke the news of the decision on Jan. 14. At the time, the network wasn’t ready to announce the co-host’s departure. According to a source familiar with ABC execs’ thinking, fear of “an Ann Curry situation” — a reference to NBC’s botched firing of the Today anchor in 2012 — led executives to reverse course and keep Perez on the network’s 11 a.m. talk show for now.

The View co-host Rosie Perez will return to the ABC show on Feb. 3 — putting to rest reports the actress was fired. Perez was scheduled to take a break from the show in January while she was in rehearsals for Larry David’s upcoming Fish in the Dark on Broadway. But her View return date had been unclear, stirring rumors she would not be rejoining Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicolle Wallace.

CBS’s The Talk, a daytime chatfest inspired by The View, was more popular than the ABC program in a week for the first time. Amid a backdrop of more pending changes in the lineup of The View, the five-year-old CBS talkshow edged ahead in total viewers, 2.95 million to 2.88 million, according to Nielsen estimates for the week of Jan. 5-9. This is the largest audience for The Talk since last February.

With Rosie Perez’s departure from the daytime chat show imminent, ABC deniesThe View is headed for the chopping block. Its doyenne returns Friday.

Following hours of overnight reports that actress Rosie Perez is leaving the ABC daytime talk The View after just four months as co-host, fellow new co-host Rosie O’Donnell said on today’s The View that Rosie P. will return to the show next month.

After only four months on The View, Rosie Perez is leaving the ABC morning show, Variety says. Perez had taken off the month of January to appear in the Broadway play Fish in the Dark, but it’s understood that she won’t be coming back once she’s done. A rep for The View denied that Perez would be leaving the show: “Her status with the show has not changed.”

Will Sherri Shepherd or Joy Behar be lured back to The View? One of them will, if ABC brass have anything to say about it. They have approached the former View hosts about the prospect of returning to the faltering show. And Rosie O’Donnell is out of the loop.

The gabfest is now moving under the ABC News banner, the company’s nonfiction programming group. ABC News President James Goldston shared the news on Thursday in an internal memo. An individual with knowledge of the situation had said previously that the two groups were jockeying for ownership of the daytime talker for several weeks.

In case you are wondering why The View brought back polarizing Rosie O’Donnell — Monday’s season debut clocked 3.902 million viewers — the show’s biggest overall audience in eight years — which is also since Rosie joined the show the first time back in ’06.

Whoopi Goldberg is the only holdover on the daytime chatfest, which has faded in recent years as competitors sought to improve on its ensemble format. A slimmed-down Rosie O’Donnell returned for her second run, joined by actress Rosie Perez and former Republican political operative Nicolle Wallace. “The View is the show that everyone has copied but we’re the original,” Goldberg said.

Actress Rosie Perez and political commentator Nicolle Wallace will fill the vacant seats on The View when the ABC daytime talk show returns for a new season on Sept. 15. They will join Rosie O’Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg as replacements for Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy, who left the program last month.

ABC confirmed one of TV’s worst kept secrets today: Bill Wolff is new exec producer of The View. The network also named Brian Balthazar as co-executive producer, Ashley S. Gorman as director and Kathleen Rajsp as senior supervising producer.

Reports surfaced today claiming Whoopi Goldberg referred to Barbara Walters as a “cranky 85-year-old woman” during a test screening Thursday for new View co-hosts, but ABC insists it never happened. “Someone has tried to stir this pot before. This is absolutely absurd,” an ABC spokesperson said. “Whoopi is a consummate professional and has an enormous amount of respect for Barbara with whom she has a professional and personal relationship.”