The View Reveals Big Change For Next Season: ‘You Never Know What’s Going to Happen’
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The View is getting a brand-new look. The daytime talk show, which aired its season finale on Friday, August 2nd, will look very different when it returns in September. But what does The View‘s hot new studio look like?
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“After 10 years and 2,143 episodes, this is the last show we’ll do from this studio,” Sunny Hostin revealed on The View‘s August 2nd episode. And now, ABC has released a new promo teasing the move, which shows Goldberg, Behar, Haines, Hostin, Navarro, and Farah Griffin carrying boxes to their “fabulous new home.” There’s no actual glimpse of the new studio, but there are plenty of jokes from the show’s co-hosts about the fact that they are moving.
“Y’all know we’re moving, right?” Whoopi Goldberg says first, which then leads to Haines confirming that “Yes, The View is on the move,” with Hostin adding, “We’re moving downtown to the hottest new studio to match our hot topics.”
Navarro is then seen carrying her poodle ChaCha in a box, while Behar is already done with the boxes, saying, “I’m not carrying these boxes, let Alyssa do it!”
Alyssa Farah Griffin is last, carrying two boxes instead of one.”I’m used to heavy lifting,” she jokes. “I’m a Republican on The View.“
“You never know what’s going to happen here,” Goldberg then teases as the promo promises the show will return at the same time, with the same hot topics, just in a brand new studio.
This isn’t the first time the show has moved. From 1997, when the show launched, until 2014, the show was filmed at ABC Television Studio 23 in New York City, which is located at 320 West 66th Street, in the exact same building where All My Children also films. Since 2014, though, the show has been filmed at ABC Broadcast Center, which is located at Broadway and 44th Street.
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Hostin, like all of us, might be happy about moving, but the process of doing so remains something no one really enjoys, and she joked about it during the show’s last episode of the previous season. “We’ve had to, for the past couple of weeks, box up things, get rid of things… We were allotted, each host, five huuge cartons. I took up two, Sara [Haines] took up all five and was looking for more!” Hosting laughed.
But she didn’t just have jokes at the expense of Sara Haines. Ana Navarro was also a target. When you’re moving and struggling to pack things up, everyone’s fair game.
“And Ana [Navarro], please don’t say that you were a purger, because I think you had over 50 pairs of shoes in your [dressing] room,” Hostin also said.
Navarro had a quick comeback. “I’m feeling attacked!” She defended herself but quickly owned up to it. “They are all my shoes, I love all my shoes! I have no children, my children are my shoes. I’m a childless shoe lady!”
In the end, the set has a lot of memories, and Hostin admitted saying goodbye is bittersweet. “We’re sad to say goodbye,” Hostin added, “but we are thrilled to be moving to a brand-new studio downtown — brand-new, state-of-the-art — and we will see you there in September for the premiere of Season 28!”
The new season of The View will premiere on September 3rd. The show’s current lineup consists of Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro.
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