LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy are saying goodbye to “The View” next week. ABC says their final appearance as co-hosts of the daytime talk show will […]
Shakeups at ABC’s The View are continuing with a shift at the top. Longtime executive producer Bill Geddie will be leaving the daytime talk show, according to multiple reports. In Geddie’s place, ABC has hired Bill Wolff. Wolff currently serves as MSNBC’s executive producer of The Rachel Maddow Show and is the vice president of primetime programming at the network.
For the first time in its four-year history, CBS daytime chatfest The Talk is more popular in key demos than the show that inspired it, ABC’s The View.
After days of rumors, The View made it official today, tweeting that Rosie O’Donnell would return as co-host for season 18 of the ABC daytime show.
Rosie O’Donnell’s contract talks with The View have spelled the end of executive producer Bill Geddie’s career at the show, which he’s run since its inception, an insider says. It also could mean the end of The View as we know it, as network executives look to completely “refresh” the show.
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Rosie O’Donnell is currently in “active negotiations” with The View to come back to the program, according to sources in connection with Rosie and the production.
A short time after Sherri Shepherd announced her exit from ABC’s The View on Thursday, Jenny McCarthy made her own departure announcement. ABC declined to discuss Shepherd or McCarthy’s status but issued a statement saying change is ahead for the show, which is on hiatus but returns in July to finish out the current season. Whoopi Goldberg is the only host left in place.
According to Rob Shuter of VH1’s The Gossip Show, the ex-New York Housewife has been in talks with ABC to become a permanent fixture on the morning show. “The View is looking for someone to spice up the show,” an insider tells Shuter. “Someone with lots of opinions and a big personality and Bethennny is at the top of the list.” Apparently several secret conversations have occurred but no deal has been reached yet.
On Friday, capping a spectacular half-century run she began as the so-called Today Girl, Barbara Walters says goodbye to ABC’s The View. Behind the scenes she will remain as an executive producer of the New York-based talk show she created 17 years ago, and she’ll make ABC News appearances as events warrant and stories catch her eye. “It’s not as if I’m walking into the sunset,” she cautions.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — ABC’s “The View” will gather all 11 past and present co-hosts to salute Barbara Walters as she retires from daily television. The network said Wednesday the […]
Viewers Tuning Out ‘The View’ Over McCarthy
Katie Couric replacing Barbara Walters on The View? Not so fast, according to ABC. The New York Daily News reported that Couric may be the next member of the long-running daytime talk show. But a spokesperson for ABC said, “There is absolutely no truth to this rumor whatsoever, it’s completely erroneous.” And Couric herself tweeted: “It’s totally not true and crazy how complete falsehoods get repeated.”
It’s the 17th season for The View on ABC and the last with Walters on the air. The only other remaining original cast member, Joy Behar, departed this summer, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck left for Fox News Channel. At The View, they introduced new host Jenny McCarthy (pictured). Over at CBS, the five hosts of The Talk promise a secret-spilling opening week. They will reveal something about themselves they’ve never talked about publicly, or even told each other. It’s a tried-and-true talk-show device to draw audience members closer to the personalities on their TV.
‘The View’ Has Its Eye On Hoda Kotb
NBC could be up for another battle with ABC, this time over popular Today show co-host Hoda Kotb — who sources say is being considered by ABC as a potential new co-host for The View.
The partnership will bring ABC News and entertainment programming to Clear Channel’s new iHeartRadio Talk feature. The deal includes content from ABC News, Nightline, 20/20, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The View.
The comedian/actress will replace the departing Elisabeth Hasselbeck on the long-running ABC panel show beginning in the fall.
Hasselbeck is out the door, Behar will soon join her and Walters’ long goodbye has already begun. Unless ABC wants to devote an hour to Whoopi and Sherri staring each other down, The View is about to go on a hiring spree. From the likely (Jenny McCarthy, Brooke Shields) to the slightly absurd (Sarah Silverman, Jane Fonda), here are some top candidates.
Fox News Channel said Tuesday that Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View will join co-anchors Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade on the three-hour morning show Fox & Friends in September. Wednesday will be her last day after a decade on The View. She replaces Gretchen Carlson, who will be given her own daytime show on Fox.
Walters said false reports that The View‘s lone conservative was leaving began circulating after Joy Behar announced exit plans last week. But today, Walters pointedly denied them. “There is a particularly false story that keeps getting picked up about Elisabeth’s alleged departure, saying that we don’t approve of her conservative views,” Walters said.
Barbara Walters is expected to make it official this morning on the The View that Elizabeth Hasselbeck, the youngest member of the crew, is leaving the show in a wide-ranging shake-up of the morning coffee klatch. “All will be addressed on tomorrow’s show,” a spokesman for the show said Sunday in an email.
The 70-year-old comedian is leaving the daytime talk show at the end of the current season in August.
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters is back. Sidelined for six weeks by chickenpox and a concussion, Walters returned to ABC’s “The View” on Monday. She got a thunderous welcome […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters says she’s returning to “The View” on Monday. She’s been sidelined for several weeks. But now she’s “had enough rest and it’s time to […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Walters isn’t “scratching too much” from chickenpox, but she says she won’t be back at “The View” for three more weeks. Walters phoned into the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Is this “Idol” threat an idle threat? Mariah Carey told Barbara Walters her fellow “American Idol” judge Nicki Minaj threatened to shoot her, Walters reported on […]
Barbars Walters’ ABC show begins its new season today, with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as guest. In a muddled daytime picture, The View plans to compete aggressively for displaced Oprah Winfrey viewers with a more topical feel, aggressive booking of guests and a few pages ripped from Oprah’s playbook.
NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Couric will soon get some practice at hosting her own daytime talk show, thanks to “The View.” Executive producer Bill Geddie said Wednesday that Couric […]
