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The View Tapes Without a Studio Audience Again After NYC Blizzard as Whoopi Returns to the Desk

The weather-driven changes extend a recent pattern of production adjustments that included a virtual appearance the previous day.

Overview

  • Tuesday’s broadcast showed empty audience risers in the Manhattan studio as the cohosts, including guest panelist Amanda Carpenter, took their seats.
  • Whoopi Goldberg hosted from the studio after joining Monday’s show remotely when the storm kept her from entering the building.
  • Entertainment Weekly reported that the on-air reveal of Goldberg’s empty chair Monday was a deliberate stylistic choice before the chair was removed in later segments.
  • A few crew members were heard applauding on Tuesday in place of a live audience as Goldberg, Sara Haines, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin walked out.
  • This marked the second audience-free episode in about a month, following a Jan. 26 telecast during an earlier snow emergency in New York City.