Rosie O’Donnell to join ‘The View’

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“The View” got a bigger star than it imagined to replace Vieira, who often serves as the emotional center of an ensemble that also includes Joy Behar, Star Jones Reynolds and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

“They went in a different way,” said Bill Carroll, an expert on the syndication market for Katz Television. “There was a lot of speculation focused on them finding someone who fit in the Meredith Vieira mold and they obviously didn’t go that way.”

With two comics in Behar and O’Donnell, “The View” will likely turn into a funnier show, he said.

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The danger is, between Behar, O’Donnell and Reynolds, “the three of them will want to talk at the same time.”

O’Donnell addressed the rumored tension between herself and Jones Reynolds.

“She and I have traded barbs on ‘The View’ for as long as they’ve been on the air,” O’Donnell said. “She will go toe-to-toe with me and that’s what makes the show exciting and fun. I look forward to arguing with her starting in September.”

O’Donnell has become a more vocal advocate in favor of gay and lesbian marriage and adoption since leaving her talk show. She and her partner, Kelli Carpenter O’Donnell, have four children and ran a cruise line for gay and lesbian families that was recently featured in an HBO special. But Carroll said O’Donnell’s a professional entertainer and he doesn’t expect her advocacy will create much controversy.

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