Now that The View has concluded it's 27th season and will return in September covering all new Hot Topics, rumors are swirling that the long-running chat fest may be on the verge of cancelation.
via: RadarOnline.com
Radar Online is reporting that while the show is unlikely to go off the air before the Nov. 5 presidential election, its future beyond that point remains uncertain.
A TV veteran insider shared: “The larger issue is that while the show continues to be profitable for ABC and its affiliated TV stations, the audiences are declining every year and they're getting older every year.”
The source added: “That's not a reversible trend and it's why there's a ticking clock on this franchise.”
There is, however, a chance the lead-up to the election could help boost ratings and turn the tide in the show’s favor, with the source noting the women of The View have the next four months to pull up the ratings.
The insider told the Sun: “With a female in the presidential race, The View can be an important place to discuss the election and even to hear from politicians themselves ahead of November’s vote.”
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, 68, Sunny Hostin, 55, Alyssa Farah Griffin, 35, Joy Behar, 81 and Sara Haines, 46, already weighed in on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s attack on his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
They all slammed the former president, 78, after he questioned if Harris, 59, was actually Black while speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention.
As we previously reported, Goldberg was suspended from the show in 2022 after she said the Holocaust wasn’t about race.
At the time, she said: “Let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race. It’s not about race. It’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”
The television host further argued it could not be about race because it was two groups of white people and not two groups of different races.
Goldberg apologized the following day, saying: “Yesterday on the show I misspoke. [The Holocaust] is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race. Now, words matter, and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people.”
According to the source, Goldberg remained on the show because “she is a gifted communicator and interviewer and also because she just has a way of getting right to the heart of the matter and get the show headlines”.
The insider also noted there is no way that the network would “fire one of their most prominent Black female personalities when a Black woman is running for president”.
However, they shared things are going to be a “different story in six months, after the election”.
Also adding to the show’s woes is the death of the show’s original creator Barbara Walters in December 2022.
Said the source: “The fact that Barbara Walters has long since passed makes ending the show outright a lot easier.”
I'm sorry, but I'm not buying this story. The View is one of the most watched talk shows on ABC, averaging 2.6 million viewers back in January of this year.
Besides my parents who watch the show daily, I know other people who watch the show religiously, and have a group chat where they converse with other The View fans about the show during the show.
I also think that if they were thinking about canceling the show they wouldn't do it four months into the season. As long as The View has been on I'm sure the network would give them a proper send off.
I do agree that the show needs to lighten up a bit on discussing politics since they give a simplistic view of what's really going on in the political world.
As far as trying to skewer younger I can't see that happening (Alyssa is the only millennial on the panel) becuase the younger demographic are watching everything on their phones or tablets.
SIDEBAR: Congratulations to the shows moderator and EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg who has signed on to play Miss Hannigan in Annie the musical.
According to Broadway World the show which is slated to take place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Parade Magazine reported that the musical is slated to run for five weeks from Dec. 4, 2024 until Jan. 5, 2025. It said Goldberg would actually play Miss Hannigan from Dec. 11 until Jan. 5.
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