The View Being Adapted Into a Scripted Miniseries

Barbara Walters is making a return to TV. But this time, an actress will be playing her.

“Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View,” the New York Times best-selling book about the behind-the-scenes drama at the ABC daytime talk show, has sold its screen rights to Erik Feig’s media company PictureStart.

The project will be adapted into a TV miniseries. “Ladies Who Punch,” which came out in 2019 from St. Martin’s Press, became a sensation on social media, with repeated mentions by Andy Cohen, Howard Stern and Wendy Williams, among others.

“Ladies Who Punch” is written by Variety’s New York Bureau Chief Ramin Setoodeh based on more than 150 interviews. The non-fiction book chronicles the backstage workings at “The View,” the program created by Barbara Walters in 1997 as a platform for women to discuss politics and pop culture.

But one of the unintended consequences of the show, which was meant to be a bastion for feminism, was that it created a decades-long power struggle for control between Walters and her famous surrogate daughters – including Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Star Jones.

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I suggest casting Angie Everhart for Barbara Walters, Kenan Thompson for Star Jones, Kelly Ripa for Debbie Matenopoulos and also as Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Will Smith as Whoopi, and Harvey Fierstein as Rosie.

It was tried before by adapting Star Jones' book and the show was called Daytime Divas starring Vanessa Williams. It aired on VH1

Naah - Jane Pauley will play soundalike Baba Wawa.

John Goodman for Rosie please.

Who could they ever cast to play Rosie or Whoppi? Types like those two don't exist in Hollywood.

Gawd, who the fuck gives a rat's ass about this wizened old hag!

She's always been given more credit than she was due for anything!

That woman who did the Fargo TV series would make a good Rosie.

Jennifer Lewis could play Whoopi.

When Star quit the view on the air what happened after hot topics? Did she finish the show?