ABC's daytime talk show, The View, continued with a live show on Tuesday, despite the writers strike, which took effect at 12:01 a.m.
The hosts didn't necessarily avoid the topic during the show, with Whoopi Goldberg at one point asking a producer for the next topic and noting that the show's writers were absent.
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Signing off on Tuesday, Goldberg told viewers, "We’re thrilled you all came out to see us. We’re thrilled you watched us. We hope you weren’t too freaked about the fact that we have no writers."
The Board of Directors of the @WGAwest and the Council of the @WGAeast, acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, have voted unanimously to call a strike, effective 12:01 AM, Tuesday, May 2.
— Writers Guild of America West (@WGAWest) May 2, 2023
"We did the show anyway because we want to keep everybody employed, and we want to do our best," she explained.
According to the host, even though the show will continue to air new episodes, "we support our writers because we know what they’re going through."
"Come see us again. Have a good day. Take a little time to enjoy the view. We’ll be here tomorrow. See you then," she added.
Several late-night programs will reportedly shut down during the strike, including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which notably airs on ABC, the same network as The View, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. All will go dark beginning Tuesday.
The shows will all air reruns instead of new episodes.
Comedy Central's The Daily Show has yet to indicate what it plans to do.
Weekly shows such as Real Time with Bill Maher and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will also reportedly shut down due to the strike.
However, Saturday Night Live has not announced a final decision on its plans.
“No one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job in show business, they are entitled to fair compensation,” Meyers, who is a Writers Guild of America member, said of the strike. “They are entitled to make a living. I think it’s a very reasonable demand that is being set out by the guild, and I support those demands.”
In an announcement to guild members on Monday, the WGA said, "We have not reached an agreement with the studios and streamers. We will be on strike after the contract expires at midnight."
According to the WGA, it spent six weeks "negotiating with Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony under the umbrella of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)."
Chief concerns of WGA negotiators were slashed compensation and residuals as well as undermined working conditions. The WGA further alleged that the companies have "created a gig economy inside a union workforce."
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"They have closed the door on their labor force and opened the door to writing as an entirely freelance profession," it said.
"The companies have broken this business. They have taken so much from the very people, the writers, who have made them wealthy. But what they cannot take from us is each other, our solidarity, our mutual commitment to save ourselves and this profession that we love," the WGA told members.