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Barbara Walters Retirement Official: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 9:52am PDTTags: ABC, Barbra Walters, Bob Iger, The View

UPDATED: This is one our Nellie Andreeva told you was going to happen back in March. It became official this morning on The View, the show Barbara Walters co-created. “In the summer of 2014, a year from now, I plan to retire from appearing on television at all”, she said after showing a clip montage of her 52 years in the business. “It has been an absolutely joyful, rewarding, challenging, fascinating and occasionally bumpy ride. And I wouldn’t change a thing. I’m perfectly healthy. This is my decision. I’ve been thinking about it a long time. This is what I want to do”. She added: “I will come back, I’m not going into the sunset.” Walters said she will continue as executive producer of The View with Bill Geddie. (Continued below)

Disney’s Bob Iger was one of several Disney and ABC brass on hand for the announcement. “What are we going to do?” Walters asked the chairman and CEO during the show (Iger is retiring in 2015). “The two of us love to dance”, he responded. “I say we go on Dancing With The Stars”. ABC Television Group president Anne Sweeney, ABC News president Ben Sherwood and ABC Entertainment president Paul Lee joined Iger to watch Walters say goodbye.

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Barbara Walters To Announce Retirement Tomorrow

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday May 12, 2013 @ 7:00pm PDTTags: ABC, Barbra Walters, The View
Nellie Andreeva

I’ve learned that Barbara Walters will announce her retirement on The View tomorrow. As we first reported in March, the TV icon this spring made the decision to get off the air after 52 years, and had been mulling the timing of her announcement. It will come tomorrow, in the middle of May sweeps. Walter is expected to leave her duties as The View co-host and ABC News contributor in summer 2014 but will keep some behind-the-camera presence, including serving as executive producer of The View, which she co-created. But before she hangs up her microphone, Walters will host one more 10 Most Fascinating People special and another Oscar special, among other appearances on ABC and her hosting duties on The View. Walters will be given a big sendoff on the network culminating with a retrospective special, likely next May. Read More »

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Barbara Walters Poised To Announce Retirement

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 28, 2013 @ 10:38am PDTTags: ABC News, Barbra Walters, Big Deals TV, The View
Nellie Andreeva

Barbara Walters RetireUPDATED EXCLUSIVE: After years of speculation, I hear Barbara Walters may be finally ready to hand up her microphone. I’ve learned a plan has been put in place for Walters to announce her retirement, eyed for May 2014. Fitting for Walters’ status as the grand dame of TV journalism and a signature face of ABC News, I hear she would be given a big sendoff with retrospectives and other special content in the weeks leading to her retirement that would celebrate her 52-year broadcast career. Walters had been determined to leave on her own terms, so it is unclear whether revealing the plans would make her change her mind and whether she would go for a full retirement or keep some TV presence with occasional appearances and specials.

Walters has been a trailblazer for female TV journalists, becoming the first woman to co-host a news program when she got behind the Today desk in 1974 and the first co-anchor of a network evening news broadcast when she joined ABC Evening News in 1976. She also anchored ABC News’ primetime newsmagazine 20/20 for 20 years. Read More »

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ICM Partners Signs Sherri Shepherd

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 19, 2013 @ 1:28pm PDTTags: ICM Partners, Sherri Shepherd, The View
Nellie Andreeva

Sherri ShepherdEXCLUSIVE: The View co-host Sherri Shepherd has signed with ICM Partners. She was with CAA. It is a timely signing, with the cast of the ABC daytime talk show very much in the spotlight at the moment following Joy Behar’s announcement that she is departing at the end of the season and amid persistent rumors that Elisabeth Hasselbeck may leave too. Read More »

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Barbara Walters Denies Elisabeth Hasselbeck Is Exiting ‘The View’, Joy Behar Talks Departure

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 11, 2013 @ 9:11am PDTTags: Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, The View
Nellie Andreeva

The ladies of The View made quite a few headlines last week, with Joy Behar announcing her decision to leave the daytime talk show after almost 17 years, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck raising a storm of speculation that she will be out too. The View‘s co-creator/executive producer/matriarch Barbara Walters addressed the later at the top of the show today. “There is a particularly false story that keeps getting picked up about Elisabeth’s alleged departure, saying we don’t approve of her conservative views,” Walters said. “The truth is, we love Elisabeth… We value and appreciate her point of view. She helps give this show perspective and balance… So we have no plans for Elisabeth to leave this show.” But Walters didn’t shut the door on the rumors completely, saying she and exec producer Bill Geddie won’t stop any of the co-stars who “make the choice to leave.” Hasselbeck had been on the chopping block for the past couple of weeks, with ABC reportedly even considering potential replacements. Read More »

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Leaving The ‘View’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 2:05pm PSTTags: ABC, The View
Nellie Andreeva

The expected revamp on The View is happening — the rumored ouster of co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck appears to be a done deal. She would join veteran co-host Joy Behar who announced she was leaving the … Read More »

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UPDATE: Joy Behar Leaving ABC’s ‘The View’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 7, 2013 @ 4:15pm PSTTags: ABC, Joy Behar, The View
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE 4:15 PM: ABC just released to Deadline a statement about Joy Behar’s exit from The View. “Joy Behar has been instrumental in the success of The View from the very beginning. We wish her all the best in this next chapter, and are thrilled that we have her for the remainder of the season.”

EXCLUSIVE 3:25 PM: After 16 and a half years on The View, Joy Behar is departing ABC’s long-running daytime talk show. I hear Behar’s contract is up in August and she has informed the network that she will not renew it as she is looking to move on to other things, including hosting a new interview show. Behar is the last original cast member of The View besides co-creator/executive producer Barbara Walters who is still on the panel. The two started off alternating as the fourth co-host before Behar was named a full-time co-host. In a phone interview, Behar said she felt 16.5 years on The View were enough. “It seemed like the right time,” she said. “You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup.” And following stints hosting her own shows on HLN and now Current TV, which will end with the network’s takeover by Al Jazeera, Behar is ready to do it again. “I do like talk shows, I’m interested in talking to people,” she said. “I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breath.” Will that show be on CNN following reports of Behar meeting with new CNN topper Jeff Zucker? Behar would not elaborate beyond saying that she indeed had “a positive meeting” with Zucker and that “CNN would be great place” for her next show.
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Barbara Walters Returns To ‘The View’ On Monday

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday February 26, 2013 @ 10:05am PSTTags: ABC, Barbra Walters, The View

Barbara Walters has been away from her anchor chair on The View since January 22, when she fainted and suffered a concussion the weekend before while on assignment for ABC News at the Presidential Inauguration. She was … Read More »

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CNN’s Candy Crowley Defends Debate Performance: Video

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday October 17, 2012 @ 11:17am PDTTags: Barack Obama, Candy Crowley, Mitt Romney, The View

The CNN chief political correspondent went on The View today to debrief after moderating last night’s second Presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Candy Crowley … Read More »

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Ann Romney Hitting ‘The View’ On Oct. 18, Michelle Obama On ‘Live With Kelly & Michael’ Next Day

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 11:22am PDTTags: Ann Romney, Live With Kelly And Michael, Michelle Obama, The View

The same day President Obama will be on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Ann Romney is set to sit down for the first … Read More »

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Chat Ratings: Obamas Score On ‘The View’, Ann Romney Can’t Top First Lady On Leno

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday September 26, 2012 @ 1:20pm PDTTags: Ann Romney, Ratings, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The View

The Democrats beat the Republican in the TV talk battle yesterday. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama’s first joint visit to The View pulled in 4.3 million viewers, the highest viewership the ABC daytime talk show has seen since President Obama appeared solo on the show May 15 and the second-highest it has drawn since May 2011. The show also had four-month highs in key demos: up 30% among total viewers and 34% in adults 18-49 season-to-date. Yesterday’s show garnered 1.1 million adults 18-49 and a 0.9 rating, 1.4 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in adults 25-54, 793,000 viewers and a 1.2 rating in women 18-49, and 1 million viewers and a 1.7 rating in women 25-54.

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Jon Stewart Rips Obama For Appearing On ‘View’, Not Meeting World Leaders: Video

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday September 26, 2012 @ 8:36am PDTTags: Barack Obama, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The View

In New York to address the United Nations yesterday, President Obama also made time for a pre-taped visit with Barbara Walters and her co-hosts on The View. But, as The Daily Show host noted last night, Obama did not make time for “high-level prez-on-prez action.” … Read More »

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Obamas Heading To ‘The View’ On Sept. 25, Whoopi Fires Back At Romney

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday September 20, 2012 @ 2:27pm PDTTags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, The Late Show With David Letterman, The View

President Obama and Michelle Obama will appear next Tuesday as part of The View‘s Red, White & View campaign featuring political guests and discussions. This will be the first joint appearance for the Obamas on the ABC talker but is the president’s fifth visit, coming just over a week after his seventh visit to Late Show With David Letterman. That same day, Ann Romney will be making her first appearance on a late-night talk show on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, NBC announced today. Meanwhile, View co-host Whoopi Goldberg is firing back at Mitt Romney over leaked remarks he made about appearing on The View, before he agreed yesterday to return as a guest sometime in October. Read More »

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Mitt Romney Heading Back To “Sharp-Tongued” ‘The View’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday September 19, 2012 @ 2:54pm PDTTags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, The View

The Republican standard-bearer is heading back into self-described “high risk” territory. “The Governor has been to The View and we have had a wonderful visit. And his team confirms this morning that the Romneys would once again love to join the sharp-tongued chatter in October,” said View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck reading a statement from the campaign today on the air. In the recently released video of Romney talking to contributors at a private fundraiser back in May, the candidate characterized appearing on the Barbara Walters-led show as having limited value for his campaign. “The View is high-risk because of the five women on it, only one is conservative and four are sharp-tongued and not conservative. Whoopi Goldberg in particular,” said Romney in the video, which has garnered controversy on a variety of fronts this week. Read More »

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Heads To WME

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday May 21, 2012 @ 11:41am PDTTags: IMG, The View, WME

EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Hasselbeck has signed with WME, where Jim Ornstein will handle The View co-host’s representation. Hasselback had been with Babette Perry at IMG, but sources say the former Survivor contestant had become unhappy with the way … Read More »

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Obama Gives ‘The View’ Ratings Boost

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday May 16, 2012 @ 2:13pm PDTTags: ABC, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, The Avengers, The View

President Obama’s visit to The View on Tuesday gave the show a 15-month ratings high. His appearance drew a 5/15, attracting 4.7 million viewers. It was his fourth visit to the ABC morning talk show and the first of his re-election campaign. Today, Barbara Walters announced that the show has extended an invitation to presumed Republication nominee Mitt Romney to appear; he has appeared previously.

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Katie Couric Gets First ABC Gig – Guest Co-Host on ‘The View’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 20, 2011 @ 3:47pm PDTTags: ABC, Katie Couric, The View
Nellie Andreeva

Katie Couric’s deal with ABC starts on August 1. Two days later, she will be on the network’s air as a guest co-host on ABC’s daytime talk show The View, ABC just announced. That will get Couric on daytime viewers’ … Read More »

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Now Stephen Colbert Walks Off ‘The View’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday October 19, 2010 @ 2:40pm PDTTags: Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly The View, Daytime Talk Shows, Joy Behar The View, Stephen Colbert, The View, The View Video, TV, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

Funny man Stephen Colbert channeled his idol Bill “Papa Bear” O’Reilly in his faceoff with The View co-hosts today in a segment capped by a “Whoopi Goldberg/Joy Behar” moment, in which Colbert briefly walked off the stage.

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‘View’ Co-Hosts Discuss O’Reilly Walk-Off

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 11:50am PDTTags: Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly The View, Daytime Talk Shows, Joy Behar The View, The View, The View Video, TV, Video, Whoopi Goldberg
Nellie Andreeva

A lot calmer View co-hosts spent 4 minutes today reminiscing about Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg’s infamous walk-off during the interview with Bill O’Reilly on Thursday. “On this show, we all talk about standing up to bigotry, so I stood out,” was Behar’s comment. “I hit my saturation point… I … Read More »

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