Goldberg topples a barricade of boxes in a teaser of the show’s fresh broadcast studio for the new season ahead.
Whoopi Goldberg is ready to shake the Hot Topics table and bust down a wall of boxes as The View prepares to return for a new season next week.
At the tail end of the show’s month-long summer hiatus, The View dropped a season 28 preview days before its grand return from inside a new broadcast studio, and the teaser clip (below) shows the Oscar-winning actress breaking through a giant barricade of moving boxes in anticipation of new episodes.
“Y’all know we’re moving, right?” Goldberg says at the top of the ad, with cohost Sunny Hostin promising, “We’re moving downtown to the hottest new studio to match our Hot Topics.”
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Ana Navarro — fresh from her hosting gig at the Democratic National Convention — also appears in the clip, carrying her dog, ChaCha, inside one of her moving boxes, indicating that she and her pooch are “ready for the move” into season 28.
“I’m not carrying these boxes. Let Alyssa do it,” Joy Behar quips in the next scene, which quickly cuts to Republican panelist and former Donald Trump White House communications team member Alyssa Farah Griffin carrying a parcel of her own.
“I’m used to heavy lifting,” Griffin says. “I’m a Republican on The View!”
The preview ends with an announcer addressing Goldberg, asking the Ghost star if there will be surprises in the new episodes ahead.
“Oh yeah!” Goldberg says as she smashes through a wall of moving boxes while the off-camera crew around her laughs.
Season 28 marks a significant occasion for the show, as all six permanent cohosts are set to return for the third consecutive year — making the current cast the longest-running consistent roster of ladies to sit at the table in several years.
New episodes have a big legacy to follow, though, as season 27 included some epic moments for the panelists, from unknown noise-based entities terrorizing the set and high-profile interviews with political and entertainment industry figures, to Behar comparing the Washington Monument to a penis and Goldberg reminding the in-studio audience that they’re all going to die.
The View returns for a new season on Sept. 3 at 11 a.m. ET on ABC. Watch the cohosts prepare to take on their new studio in the preview above.