Do we need a competitor for a talkshow that so many people find annoying? CBS thinks we do. They’re set to launch a six-person discussion panel show similar to The View and featuring minor and mildly familiar celebrity moms Leah Remini, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Holly Robinson Peete and Marissa Jaret Winokur. It will be hosted by Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen. At least Kate Gosselin isn’t on it. The show will be on this fall in the same time slot as the soon-to-be canceled As the World Turns. If I was an ATWT fan I would be pissed!

CBS is getting a new view. Early Show co-anchor and Big Brother star Julie Chen will be hosting a new View-like talk show on CBS this fall. To replace As the World Turns, CBS has confirmed they’re starting up a talk show with Julie as host and five other ladies, including: former child star Sara Gilbert, sitcom star Leah Remini, America’s Got Talent judge Sharon Osbourne, actress Holly Robinson Peete and Broadway star Marissa Jaret Winokur.

Sounds similar to The View, but this show will be based in L.A. According to CBS (via New York Magazine’s Vulture), the women, who all have children, will talk about their home lives on the show.

The show is set to make its debut on CBS in October, just after As the World Turns comes to an end in September.

[From OK!]

I have a higher tolerance for The View than Kaiser, who recently wrote that the show upsets her and “contributes to the dumbing-down of the American public, especially women.” There are five main panelists on The View, and often just four since Barbara is recovering from heart surgery. I prefer it when Barbara isn’t on, as she adds a kind of nasty judgy undertone to everything and Elisabeth ratchets up the rhetoric to try and impress her when she’s there. The show can be interesting at times, and as obnoxious and short-sighted as Whoopi is, I have to admit that I like her. I don’t agree with all of her opinions by any means, but she’s fun to watch and keeps the discussion flowing.

I don’t know much about the women who will be on this new version, except for Sharon Osbourne, who has a hair trigger temper and is mean-spirited and cruel. There’s also Leah Remini, who is a Scientologist with resulting childcare problems. On the other hand I have a positive impression of Holly Robinson Peete and Sara Gilbert, and am neutral on Marissa Jaret Winokur.

Will this show be interesting, though? For people inclined to watch The View, it could be. For all of us who don’t watch or only turn it on occasionally because we can’t stomach dumb heated arguments, we’re not likely to be interested in a competing show. Plus it seems like a disaster to have six women on at once. Are they all going to interview the guests? Maybe they’ll rotate them out so they’re not all talking over each other.