*“The View” is expanding its programming with a new 30-minute weekend edition called “The Weekend View,” launching Saturday, January 11.
The show will feature Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro as panelists, according to Variety. Airing at 7:30 a.m. on Saturdays via ABC News Live, the program will include an extended “Hot Topics” segment and highlights from the Behind the Table podcast, where executive producer Brian Teta discusses notable pop culture moments of the week.
The show will stream on ABC News Live—available on Disney+, Hulu, YouTube ABCNews.com, and the ABC News and ABC News Live apps.
“It’s an opportunity for us to extend the conversation, give viewers more of what they love from the connection they feel for the show,” senior vice president of Digital Media, ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks, Karin Gilford, said in a statement.
“We really think Weekend View, in addition to what we’ve done on podcasting—we’ve always had a great short form and social presence for the show—is kind of the next frontier,” Gilford added.
Gilford said “The Weekend View” will be “less political” than the weekday daytime show, describing it as “more of a lighter feel.”
“They’re still covering all the stories of the week, but in a little bit of a different tone. So it’ll be the same show format. We’ll cover the hot topics, but it will lean a little bit more into pop culture on the weekends,” she said. “I think people like to hear what the hosts have to say about a variety of topics.”
Gilford added, “The weekends are also when everybody’s generally taking a break. So it’s an opportunity to highlight some of the stuff the show covers throughout the week, that’s maybe not always in some of those politics arenas.”
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