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About The View
The View is a daytime television talk show on ABC created by Barbara Walters, Bill Geddie, and Jessica Guff and featuring a panel of women as co-hosts. As of June 2006 the panel includes Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Barbara Walters. The show premiered on August 11, 1997. The View is produced and recorded at the WABC-TV studios in New York City.

The concept of The View is to showcase women with a range of perspectives, as they speak with each other as well as with their guests. An early version of the show's opening credits, with voice-over from Walters, captured the premise:

I've always wanted to do a show with women of different generations, backgrounds and views: a working mother; a professional in her 30s; a young woman just starting out; and then somebody who's done almost everything and will say almost anything. And in a perfect world, I'd get to join the group whenever I wanted ...
The show opens each day with "Hot Topics," in which the co-hosts provide lightweight commentary on the day's top headlines in politics and entertainment; the segment's popularity soon led it to expand.

The year 2006 has seen the departure of two of the show's original co-hosts: Meredith Vieira on June 9 and Star Jones Reynolds on June 27.

Trivia
The show was originally called The View From Here. However, there was already a program airing in Canada with the same name, and ABC execs decided to change the name to simply The View.
Their first day on-air was August 11, 1997 with Tom Selleck as their first guest; Regis Philbin was the first guest on their pilot episode.
The women used to sit around a full-circle table. However, it was very difficult to interact with the audience with half of the women having their backs against the audience; the table was quickly changed.
Their set was actually a leftover set from a cancelled soap opera, The City. ABC didn't commit to their own set until their fifth season.
Since the show's premiere, The View has been the subject of numerous parodies. Arguably the most famous of which was a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live in the late 90s. It potrayed Star Jones (Tracy Morgan), Meredith Vieira (Molly Shannon), Joy Behar (Ana Gasteyer) and Barbara Walters (Cheri Oteri) as jealous older women and Debbie Matenopoulos (played by Claire Danes, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Michelle Gellar and even by Matenopoulos herself) as a simple-minded bimbo who was consistently being punished for making stupid comments. In 2005, Madtv parodied the show in a sketch, exaggerating the women's speech as simultaneous bickering. The sketch featured Michael McDonald as a farmer treating the women as hens, tossing chickenfeed on the ground and producing eggs from the women's seats. The role of Barbara Walters was played by Stephnie Weir. In The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz from the animated show Family Guy, another parody where the women were heard clucking like chickens was shown, with Star Jones Reynolds even laying an egg.
Barbara Walters had hosted a similar program in the 1970s called Not For Women Only. A panel of four experts, moderated by Walters, would discuss serious topical issues of the day
A similar show was produced in the 1960s called Girl Talk, hosted by Virginia Graham. It consisted of nothing more than three celebrity women, moderated by Graham, discussing current events, politics, women’s issues and their feelings about each other. The tone could get catty, as celebrities such as Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lee Remick and Totie Fields felt free to express their opinions.
A counterpart to The View called The Other Half was hosted by four men instead of women, and ran from 2001-2003. Co-hosts included Dick Clark, Danny Bonaduce, Mario López, Dr Jan Adams (2001-2002), and Dorian Gregory (2002-2003). Like The View, the program was directed towards women. The program primarily focused on how men interact with women and vice versa.

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External links
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The View at the Internet Movie Database