Long-running talk show The View will return with new episodes in just two weeks – defying rumors that network executives at ABC were canceling it.

The show’s official social media accounts shared a video on Monday, announcing it will return for Season 29 on September 8 with co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro and Alyssa Farah Griffin.

‘This is why you should always keep coming back to The View, because you never know what’s going to happen,’ Goldberg says in the teaser video.

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Rumors that the show had been canned emerged after Behar announced in July that it was taking a ‘hiatus’ following the Trump administration’s calls for its cancelation.

The White House had been infuriated over the liberal co-host’s remarks that the president was ‘jealous’ of former President Barack Obama.

‘It’s no surprise that “The View’s” ratings hit an all-time low last year,’ a White House spokesperson said at the time.

‘[Behar] should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air,’ the spokesperson said.

FCC Commissioner Chairman Brendan Carr warned on Fox News that the ‘consequences’ of Behar’s remarks ‘aren’t quite finished.’

A representative for the show responded by defending the talk show against the claim that it ‘hit the lowest ratings’ – but made no mention of the attacks on Behar, according to the Daily Beast. 

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The View will return for season 29 on September 8, ABC executives announced

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Rumors that the show had been canned emerged after co-host Joy Behar announced in July that it was taking a ‘hiatus’ following the Trump administration’s calls for its cancelation

‘Season to date, The View is ranking No.1 in households and total viewers among all network daytime talk shows and news programs for the fifth straight season,’ the representative said.

The View was even nominated for a number of Daytime Emmy awards for its 28th season, including Outstanding Daytime Talk Series.

Still, the rumors of the show’s demise continued, with Rosie O’Donnell saying earlier this month that she believed The View was set to be canceled.

She made the comment in a TikTok video in which she said ABC was ‘reviewing the [show’s] liberal bias’ following a Media Research Center study that found the show had welcomed 102 liberal-leaning guests and not a single conservative.

But O’Donnell claimed ‘The View’ does not have any bias, and that the ‘review’ was ‘code’ for the show’s cancellation.

She claimed her old network was in the process of scrubbing ‘any program that doesn’t align with Trumpism.’

‘This isn’t about bias – this is about obedience,’ she wrote, blaming her old nemesis who she has fought with since the early 2000s.

‘Because it’s not enough to run the country into the ground[.] You have to control what people see[,] what they hear[,] what they think.’

The View, she said, is ‘a little too much woman – a little too much truth’ for the conservative. O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Trump’s re-election.

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The co-hosts were reportedly asked to tamp down their criticism of President Donald Trump

There had been some reported tension between the show’s co-hosts and the top brass at ABC over their criticism of the president, with both ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic and Disney CEO Bob Iger asking the ladies to dial back their complaints.

Karamehmedovic, who was named ABC News president last year, suggested the women needed to broaden their conversations, highlighting episodes with celebrity guests that he said earned high ratings.

All of the hosts declined, finding the request ‘silly,’ according to the Daily Beast. 

The panel also defended their approach by saying that talking politics ‘is what our audience wants,’ the Daily Beast reported, adding the hosts believe it would ‘look kinda of bad’ if they dropped the discussions.

Navarro in particular argued viewers typically tune in to hear the panel’s perspective on politics.

The former Republican-turned-‘centrist’ had also heard from Iger about the show’s programming at a glitzy Disney media event in New York.

There, she thanked him for allowing the hosts to ‘continue doing their jobs in a politically turbulent environment,’ the Daily Beast reported.

Iger then reportedly expressed his support for the show but made clear it needed to pull back on politics.

It remains unclear whether the co-hosts will now tamp down their criticism of the president in the upcoming season, the guests of which include Emma Heming Willis – Bruce Willis’ wife, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Matthew McConaughey, Tim Allen and former Sen. Joe Manchin.