'The View' Keeps Top Spot On Daytime Talk Show Ratings Despite Drama Filled Season

The highly celebrated show "The View" has achieved another outstanding milestone! Despite the drama-filled year, it remains very much loved by viewers and is still at the top of the daytime talk show chain.

According to Variety, the ABC series currently remains the most-watched daytime talk show for the second year in a row, also for the 2021 to 2022 season, "across both network and syndication."

Despite the drama that erupted on the show this season — the petition to take Whoopi Goldberg off the show for her Holocaust comment and the shocking replacement for Meghan McCain — the American talk show has a 1.7 rating. It topped all other network and syndicated daytime talk shows, ranking number 1 in both households and total viewers for the 2021 to 2022 season.

Its success score ties it with "Dr. Phil" in households, achieving an average of 2.411 million viewers for the season. "Dr. Phil" comes closely behind "The View" in total viewers for the entire season, averaging 2.405 million total viewers, followed by "Live With Kelly and Ryan" with 2.357 million viewers.

Other talk shows that made the top-rated list for the season include "Today Third Hour," "GMA3," "Today With Hoda & Kotb," "The Talk," "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," and "The Kelly Clarkson Show." Meanwhile, "The View" did not top adults 25-24, the central demo in news programming; instead, it got the fourth spot with "Live With Kelly and Ryan" topping the chain. In that category, "Today Third Hour" came in second while "Dr. Phil" followed closely behind.

Furthermore, for the final week of programming for the season, "The View" ranked at the top with a 1.6 rating and 2.243 million total viewers. It was rated ahead of "Live With Kelly and Ryan," with a 1.5 rating and 2.129 million total viewers, and "Dr. Phil" with its 1.4 rating and 1.988 million total viewers. NBC's "Today Third Hour" (1.3 ratings, 2.022 million total viewers) and CBS' "The Talk" (0.9 ratings, 1.363 million total viewers) were also added to the category.

Executive producer Brian Teta said in a statement that the season was about celebrating "The View's" history, adding that there was "no better way" to convey its "impact and relevance" than by making history. The show has indeed made history as 25 years later, and for the second year in a row, it is the most watched daytime talk show in the U.S.

Teta pointed out that whenever anything happened globally, viewers tuned in to listen to how the co-hosts on "The View" responded. He then noted that that year, there were multiple exciting activities, including a search for a "new conservative co-host," welcoming back former co-hosts for the milestone anniversary, and celebrating with an exciting week in The Bahamas.

Still, with midterms coming up, the gang is ready to "gear up for more political interviews and debates" and to welcome two new Republican co-presenters. You may recall that the 2021-2022 season of "The View" starred Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin, and weekly contributor Ana Navarro.

Meanwhile, the next season, beginning in September, will feature all the women, including former White House staffer Alyssa Farrah Griffin. There are also shake-ups to look forward to as the teams behind "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" and those in charge of "The Wendy Williams Show" will return with "The Jennifer Hudson Show" and Sherri Sheperd's "Sherri" respectively this fall.

Speaking of the drama attached to "The View" during the 2021 to 2022 season, The Blast reported that Goldberg, one of the co-hosts, received backlashes following her scandalous Holocaust remark on the show. Viewers created a petition at the time to get her removed as they noted that she had made "numerous remarks about race," but the ones she directed at the Jewish community were "disgusting."

Regarding her reportedly anti-Jewish remarks, she said the Holocaust was not about race but was about "man's inhumanity to man," adding that the involved parties were "two white groups of people." While she apologized for the wrong statement, viewers were not so forgiving as they demanded her removal from "The View" for her "repulsive verbiage and actions."

Not long after, The Blast shared another story about the talk show, revealing Meghan McCain's replacement, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who was the White House communications director for ex-president Donald Trump. Griffin's past work relationship with Trump sparked major controversies and criticisms from other "The View" co-hosts, reportedly making her chances of landing a spot on the show slimmer.

There was no confirmation about the news at the time; however, a source mentioned that an announcement would be due before the season ended.