UPDATED, with FCC comment: ABC is pushing back on the regulatory threats of Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, arguing that the agency’s effort to impose restrictions on political candidate appearances on talk shows like The View chill its First Amendment rights. In a 52-page filing with…

Alyssa Farah Griffin will return to ABC’s The View Monday, April 13, after nearly two months of maternity leave. Whoopi Goldberg, the talk show’s moderator, announced the return of her cohost at the end of today’s episode, saying Griffin would return after the holiday. The talk show is in reruns…

Whoopi Goldberg broke out in tears, Ana Navarro was disappointed in the tame tone, and everyone was impressed by what Goldberg called the best In Memoriam segment in memory. The Oscars was hot topic No. 1 on ABC’s The View today. “I don’t generally do this,” moderator Goldberg said at the…

Nathan Lane, who famously played an obsessive Maria Callas fan in Terrence McNally’s play The Lisbon Traviata, had some harsh words for the opera- and ballet-bashing Timothée Chalamet on today’s The View. “Oh, what a schmuck,” Lane shot when moderator Whoopi Goldberg asked his thoughts about…

Meghan McCain is sharing her thoughts after being namedropped on The View by guest co-host Sheryl Underwood. The former View co-host has a complicated relationship with the ABC talk show following her tenure as the conservative voice at the “Hot Topics” table. On the episode that aired…

Timothée Chalamet made it into The View’s “Hot Topics” segment over his remarks about opera and ballet. During a town hall alongside Matthew McConaughey, the Oscar-nominated actor said that he was conflicted about advocating for movies in theaters and noted that he didn’t want to be working in…

Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to The View to offer her conservative voice at the table as Alyssa Farah Griffin is on maternity leave. Although Hasselbeck doesn’t have a problem going back to her stomping grounds, a place viewers won’t see her again is on Survivor. With the 50th season of…

The blizzard that’s covered New York in snow and got Sunday evening’s Broadway performances canceled also took made its impact on this morning’s live TV shows in the city: Both of ABC’s signature daytime talkers, Live With Kelly & Mark and The View went on without studio audiences today. With…

With Alyssa Farah Griffin on maternity leave, Chrisley Knows Best star Savannah Chrisley stepped in as the conservative voice on The View. It didn’t go the way she imagined. “I came into this with some ideas of what was going to happen,” Chrisley admitted later on the show’s Behind the Table…

Whoopi Goldberg, who lent her voice to Shenzi the cunning hyena in the 1994 Disney classic The Lion King, is lambasting President Donald Trump for the racist AI video he shared that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes and Goldberg as a hippo. “You know, I don’t know why you feel the need…

Caleb McLaughlin, who played Lucas Sinclair in Netflix’s Stranger Things, has shared his thoughts on the mysterious fate of the show’s Eleven (played by Millie Bobby Brown). Sorry to fans of the character, but McLaughlin says “rest in peace, Eleven.” In an appearance on today’s episode of…

EXCLUSIVE: The View has lined up a series of guest co-hosts when Alyssa Farah Griffin goes on maternity leave. Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Abby Huntsman will return to the show, with other guest co-hosts including Amanda Carpenter, Sheryl Underwood and Whitney Cummings. Savannah Chrisley will be…