"The View" rode its wave of heated political discussions and other "Hot Topics" to its most-watched week ever.
The 12-year-old ABC daytime hit averaged 4.24 million total viewers for the week of Oct. 20-24, according to data from Nielsen Media Research.
Among women 18 to 49 years old, "The View" averaged 967,000 viewers, the best showing in the demo since the week of Jan. 28, 2008.