Fox News is launching The Girls, an unscripted all-female podcast with rotating hosts that Rachel Campos-Duffy pitches as real talk instead of The View’s same opinions.
The weekly show is set to debut Thursday with a first episode starring Kat Timpf, Harris Faulkner, Rachel Campos-Duffy, Melissa DeRosa and Samantha Ponder. Daily Mail reporting described a rotating, unscripted format meant for candid conversations on politics, pop culture, money, marriage, parenting, relationships, careers and more.
Fox cast the project as a natural next step in its growing podcast slate. The women filmed the opener on Wednesday, and the network’s new show account quickly shared studio footage teasing the tone.
Campos-Duffy did not wait for soft launch language. On Tuesday she posted an Instagram video that drew a bright line against ABC’s long-running daytime panel.
Rachel Campos-Duffy said:
"Everyone's sick of The View. It's the same ladies, they have the exact same opinion."
She framed the Fox project as the opposite of a closed circle.
Rachel Campos-Duffy continued:
"Wouldn't it be great if there was a show where you could watch a conversation [that's] a lot like the conversations that you have with your own girlfriends? That's what we're going to do here at Fox."
And she added the pitch that will define the brand fight:
"Once a week, we're putting together a great group of women, the kind of women you'd actually want to hang out with, and we're going to pick the hottest topics of the week. Pop culture, news, faith, parenting, we're going to have a real conversation, not just what rich Manhattan ladies think."
Porter Berry, president of Fox News digital and new media, told The Hollywood Reporter the show fits a deliberate expansion plan.
Porter Berry said:
"The Girls is a natural addition to our growing podcast portfolio, and we’re thrilled to continue expanding our slate of distinctive shows that complement our existing lineup while creating new opportunities for our audience to engage with our content."
Megan Albano, executive vice president of morning programming and program development, went further on tone.
Megan Albano said:
"We’re excited to deliver a no-holds-barred format that captures the authenticity and perspectives of the many dynamic women of Fox News Media and beyond."
Fox’s own social copy matched that line, stressing an unscripted rotating cast and wide-open subject matter rather than a fixed ideological script.
The opening lineup is not a single clique. Timpf, 37, is a Gutfeld! panelist and working comedian. Faulkner, 60, is a prime-time anchor. Campos-Duffy, 54, co-hosts Fox & Friends Weekend and is married to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy.
Joining them for the debut are Melissa DeRosa, 44, the former top aide to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Samantha Ponder, 40, the former ESPN sportscaster. That mix puts a Cuomo-world operative and a sports broadcaster at the same table with Fox personalities, an early signal the producers want friction and range, not a monolith.
After Wednesday’s taping, Faulkner sounded loose on the official show clip.
Harris Faulkner said:
"So much fun. That conversation... yeah it was interesting. I think you're really going to like it and we're having the best time."
Timpf’s personal headline arrived days before the podcast push. During stand-up shows last weekend, she told the crowd she was pregnant with her second child, opened her blazer to show the bump, and trusted roughly 1,500 people to keep quiet until she was ready.
Kat Timpf told the audience:
"Well actually, I have a secret. Are you guys surprised? So was I. I shouldn’t have been though because I’m married to a veteran and the army always does seem to take a while to pull out of something. What he said would be a quick little excursion looks like an 18-year commitment."
On the question of her husband getting a vasectomy, she kept the bit going:
"I’ve had enough surgeries. It’s someone else’s turn."
Days later she posted the moment and thanked the rooms that held the secret.
Kat Timpf wrote:
"Huge thanks to the 1,500-ish besties at my shows this weekend for keeping my secret. So awesome to be the portal for a new little soul."
She and husband Cameron Friscia, a veteran she met on the dating app Raya, married in May 2021 and welcomed a baby boy in February 2025. Fifteen hours before that first birth she received a stage-zero breast cancer diagnosis and later underwent a double mastectomy. The new pregnancy, and her decision to joke about it on stage, now sits beside her role on a show selling unfiltered talk about marriage, parenting and real life.
The View has run for years as network television’s self-appointed women’s table. Campos-Duffy’s attack was blunt: same panelists, same opinions, and a Manhattan lens she says does not match how most women actually talk.
Lauren Sanchez, wife of Jeff Bezos, hit “like” on the promotional post, an odd crossover moment that only underlined how widely the shot traveled. Fox is betting a weekly podcast can siphon listeners who want politics, faith, money and parenting without the locked-in progressive chorus.
Whether The Girls becomes a durable rival depends on the conversations themselves. The network has already drawn the contrast in plain language: rotating hosts, no script, and women “you’d actually want to hang out with.” Thursday’s debut will show if the product matches the billing.
Daytime TV spent years treating one progressive lunch table as the national conversation. Fox just opened a second table and invited women who still disagree out loud.
