Almost exactly a year after its competitor, The Talk, got canceled, The View‘s future is in question as the talk show went mysteriously off the air in the middle of its 28th season.

The last new episode of The View aired on Friday, April 11, with reruns starting on Monday, April 14. So why isn’t The View on? Well, it looks like the show isn’t getting canceled. At least, not yet. According to Entertainment Weekly, The View regularly takes a week off during the spring, which explains why it’s not on the week of April 14.

New episodes of The View are set to return on Tuesday, April 22. Days before The View went on hiatus, Joy Behar, who has been a co-host on the talk show since its first season in 1997, missed three episodes due to an illness. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg, who usually takes Fridays off, filled in for Behar on Friday, April 11.

A month before her absence, Behar confirmed to the “Behind the Table” podcast that she has no plans to leave The View anytime soon. “Everybody leaves eventually. Even you will leave eventually,” Behar told the podcast’s host, Brian Teta, who responded, “But there’s no plans for you to go anywhere at the moment?” Behar answered, “No.”

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Behar also confirmed her plans to stay on The View for as long as possible in an interview with People in 2022. “I just signed a contract so I’ll be here for a while,” she said. “I have no plans to retire.”

She went on to explain why she’s stayed on The View for so long. “It’s really, you know, something that is an important show in many ways. Sometimes I don’t believe that, as I’ve been here since the beginning, but we’re the most-watched show in daytime. Most-watched!” she said.

She continued, “I’m happy to be a part of it. So no, I’m not going anywhere. I’m having a good time.” The View‘s other current co-hosts include Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

The View‘s hiatus also comes a year after news broke that The Talk was canceled by CBS after 15 seasons. The last episode aired in December 2024. The show was later replaced by new soap opera Beyond the Gates.

According to Deadline, The Talk was CBS’ lowest-rated daytime program below game shows like Let’s Make a Deal and The Price Is Right and soap operas like The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.

And while The Talk was the third most-watched talk show on daytime behind The View and Live! With Kelly and Mark at the time of its cancellation, Deadline reported that Let’s Make a Deal and The Price Is Right made more sense to keep given that both game shows are often spun off into much-needed primetime specials for CBS — in addition to their successful ratings and affordable budgets. At the time of The Talk‘s cancellation, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful had both already been renewed through the fall of 2025, so they weren’t options for CBS to cancel. The writing was also on the wall for The Talk to go after CBS fired The Talk’s current executive, Laurie Seidman, as well as one of the show’s PR representatives as part of the network’s widespread layoffs. Longtime executive producer, Kristin Matthews, was also replaced by The Late Late Show with James Corden executive producer Rob Crabbe before its cancellation in an attempt to save the series. And though Crabbe made much-needed improvements to The Talk, such as extending the first act of the show and including more intimate interview segments, it wasn’t enough to keep the series on the air.