NEW YORK• "It feels like we're auditioning," dazed TV host Ryan Seacrest said on live television on Wednesday, before a sea of empty seats.
Two hours later, in another bare studio, Whoopi Goldberg sat at a table with her four co-hosts on The View and put it plainly: "For the first time ever, as you can see, if you looked around, we made the decision not to have a studio audience. This is unprecedented."
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