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ESPN’s new morning show Get Up will stick to the “happy little world” of sports, VP studio production Bill Wolff told reporters the day before its launch, borrowing a line from the show’s host Mike Greenberg: “I love sushi, but when I go to McDonalds I want hamburger.” Asked how the recent layoff of 150 staffers…

Bill Wolff is departing Chelsea, Chelsea Handler's new Netflix talk show, on which he served as executive producer/showrunner. The move comes three weeks and nine episodes into the program’s run. Chelsea — marking Netflix’s first foray into the talk show arena — is set for 90 half-hour episodes this year, three a…

That was quick. Two days after he exited ABC’s The View following a rocky one-season run as executive producer, Bill Wolff has been named executive producer of Chelsea Handler's new talk show for Netflix, set for a 2016 debut. The show, which will be produced in Los Angeles, will reflect Handler's unfiltered opinions…

Now that he’s completely re-done the panel of co-hosts for the upcoming season of The View, it can come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the show’s EP Bill Wolff is out. He’s being replaced for now by Candi Carter, who’s joining the show as consulting producer to help launch Season 19. The Oprah Winfrey Show…

ABC News tried to shoot down a report that Rosie Perez was out at The View this afternoon, issuing this statement today: “Rosie Perez is currently in rehearsal for her Broadway play for the month of January. Her status with the show has not changed.” Reporters Who Cover Television noticed that the statement does not…

An overhauled The View kicked off this morning with no fireworks, but, of course, it’s only Day 1. The show opened glutinously, with The New Ladies Of The View kissing the rings of Barbara Walters, sitting on a throne, who ordered them to "go out there and let them see why we have the best show in daytime TV.” (Babs…

The View re-launches Monday morning with a new executive producer, new logo, new set, new token conservative, and — maybe most interesting to Monday's viewers — the triumphant return of Rosie O'Donnell. O’Donnell left under a cloud after a short '06-'07 run as co-host, in which she famously clashed with co-creator and…

ABC confirmed one of TV’s worst-kept secrets this morning: Bill Wolff is new exec producer of The View. The network also named Brian Balthazar as co-executive producer, Ashley S. Gorman as director, and Kathleen Rajsp as senior supervising producer. For weeks, word on the street was that Wolff was the new EP; he was…

Exiting The View co-host Jenny McCarthy said goodbye to the show today with Whoopi Goldberg noticeably MIA — that’s because, while the episode was in progress, Goldberg was over on the set of The Chew, chemistry testing a crop of contenders to replace McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd on the show next season. That testing…

ABC News' Good Morning America clobbered NBC's Today in the July sweep, taking key target demos and besting Today by its largest news demo and 18-49 margins during any sweep in more than two decades. GMA grew in both demos compared with the July 2013 sweep, while NBC's program declined, as did CBS This Morning. The…