"The show has evolved and is a different show, and I think it's fantastic," Vieira said after being asked if he would return to The View panel.

In a recent interview with E's Daily Pop, the 68-year-old former host opened up about her time on the daily talk show and how much has changed over the years. Vieira was the show's first host from early 1997 until his departure in 2006.

When asked if she was seen returning to the panel, sitting between current co-host Upie Goldberg and former co-host Megan McCain (who frequently shakes her head on the show), Vieira told the publication, "You know there's a time for everything. I like to say it, and I'm running out of time."

"This sounds like a prison," he joked. "I played for nine years, and I loved it. The show goes on, and it's a different show, and I think it's fantastic."

Vieira continued, "It's great for me to be on the ground floor of something because ... you connect with people when you make something as a band." The art of creating a show is to serve a new audience. Vieira said it proved a difficult task.

"We didn't know our audience in the first year. They would take him by bus wherever they could find him. I think they have dragged me off the road! A lot of people with oxygen tanks," he explained. "We want to say, 'Where do they get them?' Or people who don't speak English are clearly driving around New York and loading them on buses. I don't know if they were told what they were going to see."

"If we didn't have [creator] Barbara Walters, I believe the show would have been canceled," he added. "But because of Barbara, ABC is still on the air."

In another interview with Daily Pop, Vieira announced her decision to join The View, although she initially believed it would not work.