The View Phenomenom
The View is an Emmy Award-winning American daytime
television talk show on ABC created by Barbara Walters, Bill
Geddie, and Jessica Guff. The show features a panel of women
as co-hosts, as of October 2007 consisting of Rosie Whoopi
Goldeber (who recently replaced Rosie O'Donnell), Joy Behar,
Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters, who also acts as
the show's co-executive producer. The show premiered on August
11, 1997. It is produced and videotaped at ABC's television
studio on West 66th Street in New York City, and is the first
and only show on ABC's daytime schedule to broadcast in high
definition.
The concept of The View is to showcase women with a range
of perspectives, as they speak with each other as well as
with their guests. An early version of the show's opening
credits, with voice-over from Walters, captured the premise:
I've always wanted to do a show with women of different
generations, backgrounds and views: a working mother; a professional
in her 30s; a young woman just starting out; and then somebody
who's done almost everything and will say almost anything.
And in a perfect world, I'd get to join the group whenever
I wanted ...
The show opens each day with "Hot Topics," in which
the co-hosts provide their commentary on the day's top headlines
in politics and entertainment.
The year 2006 saw the departure of two of the show's original
co-hosts: Meredith Vieira on June 9 and Star Jones Reynolds
on June 27. As of February 2007 there is an open co-host slot
to be filled.
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