Whoopi Goldberg Calls Out ‘The View’ Producers For Season 28 Premiere “Shocker”

The View is back, but with a new season and a new studio, there’s bound to be a few wrinkles along the way. This morning, moments after showing off their new space and debuting a fresh Season 28 theme song (courtesy of Leona Lewis and Diane Warren, no less), the ladies fumbled through the beginning of their very first segment.

While The View has been on hiatus since July, the co-hosts finally reunited and had plenty to chat about, including their fun Season 28 mugs and of course, all of the political events that have gone down since they last taped the show. But before they could launch into Hot Topics, there was some apparent confusion about what, exactly, they were supposed to be discussing first.

“We haven’t been together for a while!” Sunny Hostin exclaimed, as Alyssa Farah Griffin noted, “There’s so much to catch up on.”

Hostin agreed, “It’s nice,” then the table fell into an unexpected silence, which was thankfully punctured by laughter around the table. Goldberg knowingly looked into the audience, then offered an explanation for the awkward moment.

“Now isn’t this funny. I thought we were starting with something totally different. And so, they’ve made a change, yes?” she asked, looking out at The View‘s trusty Executive Producer Brian Teta, who replied, “Yes!”

Sara Haines chimed in with her signature sunshine when she joked, “That’s how they force you to do what they want. They just put it in the prompter and say, ‘Go,’” but Goldberg maintained, “There was something totally different coming.”

When Griffin tried to assure her that the mystery segment was still included in the day’s episode, just later in the lineup, Goldberg replied, “I don’t really care if we do it in the order,” before shading the show’s producers: “It’s always nice to, you know, not get a shocker in the first four seconds of the show,” she said.

The studio and the song may be new, but one thing is clear: Whoopi hasn’t changed a bit.

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.