Missed Your Favorite Talk Show? Here’s the Shocking Reason The View Isn’t Airing and When It’s Back. L2

The View has been airing episodes reruns this week — and fans are wondering why.

The daytime series kicked off its 28th season on Sept. 3, 2024, straight from their brand new state-of-the-art studio, located in the Walt Disney Company’s new and improved Manhattan headquarters. Though the show was airing from a new location, its panel included the same familiar faces, as co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin returned for more debriefs and discussions on everything going on in the world.

But while there are plenty of “Hot Topics” yet to be discussed, the show paused its live episodes for the week of April 14, leaving viewers (yes, pun intended!) wondering what’s going on with the beloved ABC talk show.

So, why isn’t The View on this week? Here’s everything to know about the talk show’s break, including when live episodes will return.

Why isn’t The View on this week?

Even your favorite talk show hosts need a break! The View regularly takes a week off during the spring season. The show’s other holiday hiatus typically falls around the winter holidays.

The six co-hosts most recently took some time off between Dec. 23, 2024, and Jan. 6, 2025.

During the holiday break, Haines appeared to spend some quality time with her husband and children. On Jan. 6, she shared photos on Instagram that seemed to be taken from her vacation, featuring her son fishing and her daughter dressed up for her birthday.

Meanwhile, Griffin shared an Instagram photo on a boat with some friends during the break, captioned, “Out of office. ✌️ 🌴🥂.”

According to Navarro’s Instagram, she used her time away from the talk show to make new memories with her husband on vacation, which included whale watching!

Why wasn’t Joy Behar on The View last week?

Behar last appeared on The View on Wednesday, April 9, before she missed the Thursday, April 10 and Friday, April 11 episodes. Goldberg, who normally has Fridays off, filled in for her co-host on April 11, joking that the viewers must be thinking, “‘Wait — what the hell is going on here?’ Yes, it is Friday.”

The commentator went on to explain that she was stepping in while Behar was out sick.

“But Joy is under the weather today, and you know, I can’t leave y’all hanging,” she said. “So I wanted to make sure I was here.”

When will The View return with live episodes?

The spring hiatus is almost over! The View will resume live episodes on Tuesday, April 22 at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.

Which repeat episodes of The View will be on this week?

Good news, The View fans! You can still get your morning fix of the talk show by watching reruns this week.

The encore broadcast week kicked off on Monday, April 14 with a rerun of author Kara Swisher and singer Donny Osmond‘s guest appearance episode.

On Tuesday, the episode featuring actor and producer Mindy Kaling, as well as a performance from the women of Disney on Broadway in honor of Women’s History Month, will air again.

Wednesday’s episode will re-feature ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith, as well as former White House press secretary Karine Jeane-Pierre, followed by a rerun of Sen. Elissa Slotkin and musician Julian Lennon‘s episode on Thursday.

The week of repeated episodes will come to a close on Friday with the episode featuring Daredevil: Born Again actors Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, as well as TV personality Antoni Porowski.