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                    Whoopi Goldberg on hiatus from The View as she films Anansi Boys for Amazon Studios in Scotland
                                        Whoopi Goldberg is taking a hiatus from The View as she works on a new show called Anansi Boys, her co-host Joy Behar announced on Monday.Behar, 79, said, 'If you're wondering where Whoopi is, the girl's got a movie she's making and she will be back when she finishes whatever she's doing - so she's gone for a while.'Goldberg, 66, will be filming the series - an adaptation of the 2005 novel by author Neil Gaiman - in Scotland, Variety reported Monday. The latest:Whoopi Goldberg, 66, is taking a hiatus from The View as she works on a new show called Anansi Boys, her co-host Joy Behar, 79, announced on Monday'I have been a fan of this book for a very long time and when Neil Gaiman told me it was being brought to the screen, I did everything I could to be part of it to help make people aware of Anansi and all his magic,' Goldberg, who is set to play the role of Bird Woman, told the publication.Gaiman, 61, told Variety that he had initially had Goldberg in mind when he wrote the novel: 'When I first conceived Anansi Boys, decades ago, I imagined Whoopi Goldberg as Bird Woman.' He continued: 'I wasn’t able to meet her until 2018, when she interviewed me with some of the Good Omens team at New York Comic Con.