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The View Announces Whoopi's Trip to Xanadu | Today's News: Our Take | 7/14/2008
During their daily gab session at the beginning of The View, a very made-up cast member of the show Xanadu, a big Broadway homage to the movie of the same name, announced that Whoopi Goldberg would be joining the cast for the month of August.Whoopi, fresh off a story about playing ball at Yankee Stadium last weekend, said she is thrilled to be joining Xanadu at the Helen Hayes Theater during her vacation from The View. The Whoop doesn't mind skipping her vacation this year, admitting, "If I... read more
The Tonys: Putting On a Great Show | Roush Dispatch | 6/16/2008
Next to TV, theater probably qualifies as my most consuming passion. Whereas I love TV for its ability to bring millions together for a shared experience on an expansive canvas that’s always fascinating to chart, I treasure the theatrical experience for its shared intimacy, the knowledge that what an audience of dozens or hundreds is witnessing live will never happen exactly the same way again. (The fact that in classic Broadway tradition, these performers and crews do it eight times a... read more
Whoopi Goldberg Tapped to Host Tony Awards | Today's News: Our Take | 5/8/2008
Whoopi Goldberg has been named the host of The 62nd Annual Tony Awards, scheduled for Sunday, June 15 (8 pm/ET, CBS).This will be Goldberg's first stint at hosting the Tonys. She has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony four times.The View moderator won a Tony Award herself in 2002 for her role in Thoroughly Modern Millie. She has also won a Grammy, an Oscar, an Emmy and a Golden Globe throughout her career. — J.R. Whalen read more
Patrick Swayze: Friends, Colleagues Send Support | Today's News: Our Take | 3/7/2008
In the wake of the shocking news that Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer, many friends and colleagues rushed to make statements of support for the star of Dirty Dancing.• Swayze's physician, Dr. George Fisher, expressed optimism, saying that the actor "has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far."• Whoopi Goldberg gave Swayze credit for her Oscar win. It seems that Swayze lobbied hard for Goldberg to play Oda Mae Brown in Ghost,... read more
All's Well Between Oscar and Snubbed Whoopi | Oscars Live Recap and News Blog | 2/27/2008
Four-time Oscar host Whoopi Goldberg teared up on Monday's The View after the ladies brought up her exclusion from what looked like a tribute montage to past hosts on Sunday's telecast. In turn, Gil Cates, who produced the show, called Whoopi to apologize. "That piece of film was made to honor 80 years of Oscar's most memorable moments," he told TV Guide. Because of the show's crash production schedule after the end of the WGA strike, Cates saw the montage only days before it aired. "I never... read more
Housewives Star Helps Whoopi Kick Butts | Today's News: Our Take | 11/14/2007
Thursday on The View, Whoopi Goldberg will get assistance in her mission to give up cigarettes in the form of Mrs. McCluskey, aka Desperate Housewives' Kathryn Joosten. "I'm a lung-cancer survivor — six years cancer-free! — so I'm going to talk to her about quitting smoking," Joosten tells us of her visit, which coincides with the Great American Smokeout and National Cancer Month. "Whoopi's got a target date, and we've got tips on how to make it easier to quit."Joosten's busy week... read more
"New" View Ratings Are Rosier than Rosie's | Today's News: Our Take | 9/24/2007
ABC's latest incarnation of The View, featuring Whoopi Goldberg as moderator and Sherri Shepherd as a gabber, thus far is averaging 3.5 million total viewers, a seven percent increase from the 3.3 mil who were tuning in to the Rosie-run edition a year ago.Though the talker got off to a slow start this season — Whoopi drew a million fewer than O'D did on her first day — with Shepherd in place in its second week, it bested Ro by 400,000 heads. read more
Whoopi! Hurrah! Yay! The View (Ratings) Still Good | Today's News: Our Take | 9/14/2007
Didn't see this one comin'. Whoopi Goldberg's first week on The View tied Rosie O'Donnell's with a 1.2 rating (which had previously been the best that the chatfest had ever gotten for a premiere week). Moreover, says the Hollywood Reporter, the show was up 42 percent from the week before and up 12 percent in the key women aged 18-49 demo. Sherri Shepherd's brought some eyeballs to The View as well. Her debut Monday averaged 3.9 million viewers, a tasty increase from last season's second-week... read more
Sherri Shepherd Signed On to The View in August | TV Guide News Report | 9/6/2007
Comic Sherri Shepherd has been chosen to fill Star Jones Reynolds' long-vacant fifth seat on The View. Although the official announcement will have to wait until Sept. 10, the deal was made back in August, TV Guide has learned exclusively. The View producers were hoping to stay mum about Shepherd’s status for a couple of weeks to keep the hoopla focused on Whoopi Goldberg's signing on as moderator. But an anonymous source leaked the news early.Shepherd, who has guest-hosted on the ABC... read more
Whoopi's Debut Dogged by Her View on Vick | Today's News: Our Take | 9/5/2007
Whoopi Goldberg's Tuesday arrival as a cohost for The View nearly went without incident, save for her take on the Michael Vick controversy. Opining that dogfighting "isn't that unusual" in the South (where Vick hails from) and positing that "there are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of the country," Whoopi drew fire from a myriad of media bloggers and columnists, as well as PETA. "A lot of people who live and work in the South... will not appreciate the view that cruelty to... read more
The New View: No Big Whoop | Roush Dispatch | 9/4/2007
Whoopi Goldberg has always had a wonderfully distinct point of view, and one that’s probably just right for her new job on The View. But unlike her immediate predecessor in the cohost seat, this POV is not trained entirely on herself. For me, that’s a relief.Tuesday’s 11th-season opening of ABC’s daytime squawk show was a pretty low-key lovefest, as the gang embraced Whoopi while catching fans up on how they spent their summer vacation: Elisabeth Hasselbeck became more... read more
Whoopi Goldberg Shares Her View on Her Daytime Gig | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 9/3/2007
On Tuesday at 11 am/ET, Whoopi Goldberg begins her reign as moderator of ABC's The View, a job once held so smoothly by Meredith Vieira and so fractiously by Rosie O'Donnell. The 52-year-old actress has already won an Oscar, a Tony, a Grammy, several Golden Globes and even a Daytime Emmy. So will the Goldberg variation have what it takes to win the daytime chat show its own long-denied Emmy? We spoke with her on the View set. TV Guide: You do movies, you have a daily radio show, you had your... read more
Whoopi's View Will Be Mellow Yellow | Today's News: Our Take | 8/30/2007
When The View launches its 11th season on Tuesday, Sept. 4 — with "special" guest Danny DeVito on hand — new cohost Whoopi Goldberg won't represent the only splash of... something different on the show. An ABC press release says that the talker's set "has been freshened this year with warm hues of yellow — both paint and fabric." Limoncello yellow, perhaps? This was not made clear.What's more, gone is that cold, icy and apparently acrylic "Hot Topics" table, now replaced with a... read more
Nice View: Whoopi Officially Replaces Rosie | Today's News: Our Take | 8/2/2007
All I can say is, I hope Goldberg is on stronger antidepressants than O'Donnell, because Barbara Walters announced that she was Elisabeth Hasselbeck's official counterpoint on yesterday's episode of the ABC chatfest. OK, so she didn't use exactly those words. But, given the Oscar winner's stance on el presidente, you know it's true. Meanwhile, we're still waiting (and hoping) to hear that Less Than Perfect funny lady Sherri Shepherd has been picked to fill at least part of Star Jones Reynolds'... read more
Whoopi Goldberg to Join The View | TV Guide News Report | 8/1/2007
After weeks of speculation, Barbara Walters announced live on The View today that Whoopi Goldberg will be the new cohost of the daily ABC chatfest."I love you guys. This is a big ol' thrill for me," said Goldberg when she was introduced on the show this morning. "The thing I'm looking forward to the most is all the hot topics."After joining cohosts Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View for the big announcement, Goldberg closed the show in true View fashion: "Have a great day,... read more
A New View Soon | TV Guide News Report | 7/30/2007
Yes! The View's new hosts will "finally be announced later this week," Barbara Walters said on her daytime chat show today. Bets are on Whoopi Goldberg and Sherri Shepherd, the comic actress who's been guest-hosting for months. But it's a resounding no to the rumor that Victoria Beckham will be hosting for two weeks. "It's news to us," says the show's queen bee. "She is not. We wish her well. We think she's wonderfully exciting, but that's not who we're going to have on." — Reporting by... read more
As View Announcement Nears, Buzz Cries, "Whoopi!" | Today's News: Our Take | 7/26/2007
As previously scooped by the TV Guide News Report, The View is expected to announce its new cohost by Aug. 2, a timetable confirmed by both Gotham tabs this Thursday morning. While the New York Daily News calls Whoopi Goldberg a shoo-in to join the talker, the Post's Page Six posits that a triad of Whoopi, Kathy Griffin and Sherri Shepherd might rotate in and out of the pair of chairs vacated by Star Jones and Rosie O'Donnell. So TVGuide.com can have posts appearing double but two ladies can't... read more
Buzz About The View's Replacements | TV Guide News Report | 6/27/2007
Don’t place your bets on a guy replacement when Barbara Walters and her colleagues on The View announce who will take the spots vacated by Rosie and — at long last — Star Jones Reynolds. Despite the presence of Joy Behar’s buddy Mario Cantone in the mix, TV Guide hears that his guest-hosting is more of a fun stunt than a tryout. When the winners are revealed, probably between July 9 and Aug. 2, we predict the show stays ladies only. As Elisabeth Hasselbeck told TV Guide,... read more
Walters "Quite Happy" with Her Rosie-less View; O'Donnell Responds | Today's News: Our Take | 6/13/2007
While admitting, "It's very hard for anyone to follow Rosie," boss woman Barbara Walters says she is rather pleased with The View's performance since O'Donnell's famous walkout. "There are things we've been able to discuss that we weren't able to discuss with Rosie, like heterosexual sex," Walters told Wednesday's On-Air with Ryan Seacrest radio show. "We are perhaps not quite as political [or] vocal about [things], but the Hot Topics have been very fun, and the ratings are up, so we're quite... read more
June 5, 2007: Season 3 — Episode 1 (Season Premiere) | Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List | 6/6/2007
So glad to have my weekly dose of Kathy back! As I expressed last season, I worship the ground Kathy walks on, so you should expect me to say mostly positive things here. Kathy has the guts to say what most people in show business only think about saying. When you see Kathy's stand-up act live or on TV, and when you watch this show, all you do is wait and think: "What is she going to say next?" After watching, laughing and loving her preceding special Kathy Griffin: Everybody Can Suck It, I... read more