Oprah Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is one of the highest paid and most watched TV celebrities of all times. Oprah is an American multiple- Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is also an influential book critic, an...
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Oprah Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is one of the highest paid and most watched TV celebrities of all times. Oprah is an American multiple- Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award -nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. According to Forbes magazine, she was the richest African American of the 20th century and the world's only Black billionaire for three straight years. Life magazine has ranked her as the most influential woman of her generation and Time magazine has ranked her as one of only four people to have shaped both the 20th century and the early 21st. In 2005, Business Week ranked her as the greatest Black philanthropist in American history.
It's the talk show talked about around the world. Oprah Winfrey's announcement last week that she will end her daytime TV program after its 25th season in 2011 made headlines from London to Johannesburg. Audiences for the show might be smaller outside the United States, but the whole world knows Oprah — a celebrity ambassador for American culture who has influenced everything from the aspirations of young African girls to the global publishing industry. In London's Brixton neighborhood, a... Read Full Story
TV personality Oprah Winfrey hosts The Oprah Winfrey Show: Fridays Live From New York at Rumsey Playfield on September 18, 2009 in New York City. (Getty Images) more pics » Ending one of the most successful runs on television ever, Oprah Winfrey will announce tomorrow that she plans to stop filming her immensely popular afternoon talk show in 2011. Oprah Winfrey and guest Mariah Carey on a recent episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show . (Getty Images) The news broke this afternoon from Tim... Read Full Story
Retiring talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has set her sights on a steamy new project.
Oprah’s production company is developing a new TV series about a sexually curious Los Angeles housewife.
The HBO series is centered on a married woman who leaves her husband and children to live out her wildest sexual fantasies, according to US reports.
The news comes just days after Oprah announced she is quitting her famed talk show in 2011 after 25 years to focus on new projects with Harpo Productions... Read Full Story
We told you Oprah Winfrey wouldn't disappear.
Oprah rocked the nation last week when she announced that she'll pull the plug on The Oprah Winfrey Show in September 2011. We had a hunch Ms. Winfrey had some things in the works, and it's confirmed. In addition to the official plans for the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) to launch in 2011, a report emerged on Monday that Oprah and HBO are teaming up. Read Full Story
NEW YORK — Is it too soon to begin missing Oprah? Why put it off? In less than two years, she will vanish from sight as a five-hours-weekly broadcast TV fixture. How could we not be feeling early pangs of withdrawal and loss? Let's go ahead and start our seven stages of grief. For nearly a quarter-century Oprah Winfrey has been our moral arbiter, lifestyle coach and window on the world. Her show has been our church, Chautauqua and kaffeeklatsch. She has inspired us to monitor her ricocheting... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential and highly paid women on television, will announce on Friday she is ending her popular daytime talk show in 2011. Winfrey's production company, Harpo Inc, said on Thursday she would make the official announcement on Friday's live program from Chicago and talk about the reasons behind the decision to end it after 25 years on the air. She is expected to move to cable network OWN, or Oprah Winfrey Network, a Los Angeles-based... Read Full Story
US television superstar Oprah Winfrey, who rose from a childhood of abuse and poverty to become a global star, will on Friday announce that her talk show will end in 2011, her production firm said. "The sun will set on the 'Oprah' show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011," Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey's Harpo production company, wrote in a letter to affiliates. "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which is currently syndicated in 145 countries, has transformed Winfrey into a... Read Full Story
US television superstar Oprah Winfrey, who rose from a childhood of abuse and poverty to become a global star, will on Friday announce that her talk show will end in 2011, her production firm said. "The sun will set on the 'Oprah' show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011," Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey's Harpo production company, wrote in a letter to affiliates. "The Oprah Winfrey Show," which is currently syndicated in 145 countries, has transformed Winfrey into a... Read Full Story
It came as quite a shock to many last week when Oprah Winfrey announced that her daily talk show would be coming to an end next year. As her good friend Ellen DeGeneres and fellow female talk show host put it, "She has blazed a trail..She will always be the Queen of Daytime Television." Well, obviously.
After 25 years on the air, the legend that Oprah leaves behind will be difficult to match, but we don't think she's really going anywhere. I mean, it's Oprah--she's more of a force than an... Read Full Story
We all knew the day would eventually come when Oprah would say good-bye. Unfortunately – it looks like that day is closer than we expected.
Eyewitness News has learned that Oprah will announce on Friday that she has decided to end her talk show. Oprah told her staff of her decision during a company meeting on Thursday afternoon. The president of Harpo Studios notified media partners later Thursday.
She is expected to make a public announcement on “The Oprah Winfrey Show... Read Full Story
