Watching The View

View host Barbara Walters attended an event in NYC on Sunday called the 4th Annual New York Times Great Children’s Read - The Great Literary Brunch. Here are some photos of her at the event.

]Barbara Walters, The View, 4th Annual New York Times Great Children’s Read - The Great Literary Brunch

Here is the schedule for The View for October 6th-10th, subject to change:

Monday, Oct. 6: Felicity Huffman (ABC’s Desperate Housewives).

Tuesday, Oct. 7: Sarah Silverman, Tristan Rogers (SOAPnet’s General Hospital: Night Shift

Wednesday, Oct. 8: “The View: Special Edition” theme show focusing on breast cancer awareness, early detection, prevention and survivors. Dr. Susan Love and Robin Roberts (ABC News’ Good Morning America and author, From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By) are guests.

Thursday, Oct. 9: Angela Bassett (E.R.); couple voted off ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.

Friday, Oct. 10: Maggie Gyllenhaal.

ABC has announced that The View will air a special Breast Cancer Awareness episode on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The special episode will focus on early detection, prevention and breast cancer survivors. The show is partnering with Yoplait, who is in the 10th year of their pink lid promotion, “Save Lids to Save Lives.” According to the press release, for every “pink lid saved and mailed in through December 31, 2008, Yoplait will donate 10 cents to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, up to $1.5 million with a guaranteed minimum donation of $500,000.”

The View had a similar breast cancer awareness episode last year, but you may recall that the live episode was pre-empted by a speech by President Bush. Hopefully this year’s special will not face the same fate as it is a topic far more relevant than Emmy look-a-like fashions or 1980s clothing making a comeback.

The View, Breast Cancer Awareness

Despite the recent rumors, it appears that View host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is not leaving the show anytime soon. According to Entertainment Tonight Elisabeth’s representative said that “While Elisabeth has a great relationship with Fox News, there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that she is leaving The View . . . Elisabeth is passionate in her beliefs and enjoys being a part of this dynamic group of women and engaging in daily conversations.”

ET also said that a rep from ABC said that “Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie, executive producers of The View, consider Elisabeth to be vital to the program.”

This is unfortunate news for many of you who were hoping the rumors were true. Many posters, both Elisabeth fans and foes, thought she would be better off at Fox News. I am sure that she will continue to do guest spots over there while enjoying her status at The View as the lone conservative, which brings her a lot more attention.

The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Here are videos of the hot topics on The View today, October 1st. The last video features Miss Piggy.

The recap won’t be up today for The View’s October 1st episode. Feel free to comment here on today’s episode. Today’s scheduled guests are Miss Piggy, Peter Krause from Dirty Sexy Money, and Diahann Carroll.

The View, Peter Krause, Miss Piggy, Dirty Sexy Money, Diahann Carroll

The rumors have not died down that Elisabeth Hasselbeck is unhappy at The View. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on September 29th that Elisabeth is “really upset” with co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar and that Barbara Walters called a ”cooling off” meeting to “keep a lid on things.”

I realize that this is not much of an update of previous rumors, but thought I would post it anyway. Especially since the tipster was my dad. Thanks for the link, Daddy!

The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg

Joy Behar attended a luncheon in New York City on September 29th for the new Bill Maher film Religulous. Here are some photos of her at the event. She is pictured with actresses Tatum O’Neal and Caroline Rhea.

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Today on The View, it was the four main hosts, with no Barbara Walters. The first topic was the rejected bailout and the drop in the stock market. Sherri Shepherd said she didn’t understand because she thought they were so close. Joy Behar just got a message from Barack Obama saying that he will suggest later today to increase the FDIC limit to $250,000. Elisabeth Hasselbeck said that you want the right package to pass and she hopes the people we elected are thinking about the people and not politics, especially because a lot of them are running for re-election. Joy said they need to use their own heads. Sherri is upset because she keeps reading about the sub-prime loans to minorities and they should not be to blame just because they wanted a part of the American dream. Elisabeth said they are not to blame, it is the lenders. Whoopi said that it was a big party and people had money to burn and now the party is over. She said everyone had a hand in the pot. Joy said that sometimes she is at a party and she sees people doing heroin, she will say “I don’t do that.” She said people could have blown the whistle. Joy wants to know why the banks cannot just go back to the lower interest rate on the mortgages, rather than using the higher rate on the ARM. Whoopi said they are just not thinking and it will take forever to get done.

Bill Maher joined the women for the second segment. He has a new movie coming out called Religulous. Joy asked him about the bailout and he said that he always thought that George Bush had one more giant screw up in him and he won’t be happy until he leaves the White House burning behind me. Maher said we don’t know if the projections of “gloom and doom” are true or not because we are not economists. He joked that you should look at the people next to you and might have to eat them soon.
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Here are some photos of Elisabeth Hasselbeck with her daughter Grace at Disney’s Sleeping Beauty 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition screening and after-party in New York City on September 28, 2008. It looked like Grace liked meeting Sleeping Beauty, but did not care for all the cameras.

Here are two videos of Elisabeth Hasselbeck on Mike Huckabee’s new show on Fox News over the past weekend. I watched about two minutes of it at the hotel on Saturday until Huckabee asked about Reverend Wright and it hit me that watching Fox News does not make a fun vacation.

The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Mike Huckabee

Here is a video of Selena Gomez on The View, September 29th.

The View, Selena Gomez

No recap today because I am in New York City. I will be trying to get stand-by tickets to get into The View. You can see if I am successful by following my Twitter updates. Wish me luck!

Feel free to comment here on today’s episode. Today’s scheduled guests are Lisa Ling, Selena Gomez, and Jennifer Hudson.

The View, Jennifer Hudson, Selena Gomez, Lisa Ling

Time Magazine is the latest media outlet in recent weeks to present a positive review of The View and its role in the presidential campaign. In the article “The View, the Proud,” author James Poniewozik asserts that this political campaign was “tailor-made” for The View because the campaign is “saturated with identity politics” and “driven by issues respectable journalists are uncomfortable discussing openly,” and, like The View, sometimes “becomes something of a train wreck.”

The article posits that the reason for the show’s success during the campaign is that they do things that other media do not in that they “address issues people actually care about” and “say what they actually think.” Poniewozik suggest that when journalists do otherwise it can come across as phoniness. He even suggests that the show would be even better off if Barbara Walters worked on “dialing down her studied neutrality even more.”

The article asserts that even though the panelists are biased, their interviews are actually newsworthy. He adds that the “traditional journalists” can learn from The View that transparency of the panelists is a positive thing and if you speak truth to power and “have a following,” then “power will still have to come back to reach your audience.” He also added that journalists can learn that a “confrontational interview is not necessarily a bad one.”

You can read the full article here: The View, the Proud.

The View, Time Magazine, Barbara Walters, Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg

Here is the schedule for The View next week, subject to change. I think that the Bill Maher interview could be interesting, as he certainly is not one to hold back on his opinions. I will be happy to see former host Lisa Ling back. I have always liked her.

MONDAY SEPT. 29 - Jennifer Hudson; Selena Gomez (Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place”); Lisa Ling, former co-host of “The View,” joins the co-hosts in “Hot Topics” to discuss her ABC News “Nightline” special.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 30 - Bill Maher; Kevin Farley and Robert Davi (”An American Carol”); Dr. Drew Pinsky.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1 - Miss Piggy; Peter Krause (ABC’s “Dirty Sexy Money”); Diahann Carroll (author, “The Legs are the Last to Go”).

THURSDAY, OCT. 2 - Greg Kinnear (”Flash of Genius”); couple voted off ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

FRIDAY, OCT. 3 - Anne Hathaway (”Rachel Gets Married”); Troy Dunn (”The Locator”).