Fox News Media Debuts 'the Girls,' a Rotating-Cast Podcast Starring Campos-Duffy, Faulkner and Timpf

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 — Fox News Media is adding a new voice to its audio lineup — or rather, a rotating cast of them. The company's podcast arm has launched the Girls, a personality-driven conversation series that brings together some of the network's most recognizable women with guests from outside the Fox News orbit. The show debuted Thursday, October 1, and new episodes will arrive every Thursday across FOX News Digital, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

The announcement, made by New Media President Porter Berry and EVP Megan Albano, frames the Girls as a deliberate departure from the news roundtable. Each episode features a fluid, free-flowing conversation with a rotating cast of co-hosts — no fixed panel, no script, and, as the network puts it, nothing off the table. The topics on the menu: politics and pop culture alongside money, marriage, parenting, relationships and careers.

The debut lineup

The premiere episode put five very different résumés around the same table. Rachel Campos-Duffy, who has co-hosted Fox & Friends Weekend since joining the network in 2016, anchored the conversation alongside Harris Faulkner, the 21-year network veteran who anchors The Faulkner Focus and co-hosts Outnumbered. Comedian and Gutfeld! panelist Kat Timpf brought the late-night comedy wing of the network into the mix.

Joining the Fox regulars were two guests from outside the building: Melissa DeRosa, the veteran Democratic strategist — and the first woman to serve as secretary to a New York governor under Andrew Cuomo — who was newly named a Fox News contributor, and former ESPN host Samantha Ponder, who departed Sunday NFL Countdown in 2024. It is a lineup designed to generate friction in a productive way: a daytime anchor, a weekend morning co-host, a comedian, a Democratic operative and a sports broadcaster don't share a professional vocabulary, and the show's premise is that the collision is the point.

No script, no fixed panel

What Fox is promising, structurally, is the opposite of a locked-in ensemble. The co-host lineup rotates week to week, pulling from news, politics, sports, comedy and culture. The format is conversational rather than segment-driven, built around the chemistry of whichever women happen to be in the studio. In the announcement, Berry said the show is "a natural addition to our growing podcast portfolio," and that the company is "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."

"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," Albano said. The "and beyond" matters — the premiere's inclusion of DeRosa and Ponder signals that the show intends to reach outside the Fox talent roster for voices that complicate the conversation rather than simply echo it.

A crowded field — and a familiar rival

The Girls arrives in a podcast market where women-led talk formats are among the most competitive real estate in audio. The show is also entering a lane with an obvious television incumbent: early press coverage, including The Sun, framed the new series as Fox's own spin on ABC's long-running The View, trading the daytime panel's fixed seats for a podcast model where the cast, and therefore the chemistry, changes every week.

Whether that comparison sticks will depend on the execution. The View has spent nearly three decades proving that the same five chairs can generate appointment viewing; the Girls is betting the opposite — that freshness of the combination matters more than familiarity of the lineup. It is a gamble with real upside in podcasting, where audiences reward authenticity and punish staleness, and where a weekly reset gives the show endless chances to find the combinations that click.

Fox's expanding audio bet

The launch is the latest move in a sustained push by Fox News Media to turn its personalities into a podcast portfolio that stands apart from the television schedule. The existing slate — Hang Out with Sean Hannity, Ruthless, Will Cain Country, Planet Tyrus and The Riley Gaines Show — already covers the network's core political and cultural lane. The Girls is the portfolio's first explicitly personality-driven women's format, and its subject matter — parenting, relationships, careers, money — reaches into the parts of listeners' lives that the existing shows don't touch.

That breadth is also the show's biggest creative risk. Shows that try to be about everything can end up being about nothing; the ones that survive are the ones where the hosts are interesting enough that the topic is secondary. Fox is clearly betting that its women are exactly that. The rotating format gives the show a structural advantage here: if a particular combination doesn't spark, next Thursday brings a new one.

For podcast listeners, the practical details are simple. The Girls premiered October 1, new episodes land every Thursday, and the show is available on FOX News Digital, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts — the full distribution stack, aimed at meeting the audience wherever it already listens. For more podcast coverage, see Previously's podcast launch coverage, our look at the latest podcast waves on Spotify, and the full Previously podcasts hub.