Sunday 6 December 2009
Oprah Winfrey is not going to host her own talk show on Oprah Winfrey Network
Posted by Mahfuz at 21:35Oprah Winfrey
New York: Oprah Winfrey is not going to host her own talk show on Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), her new cable network launching in 2011.
Winfrey announced last month she's leaving Oprah in September 2011 to focus on OWN, which will launch in January of that year.
However, the network's CEO, Christina Norman has denied reports that the talk show queen would be launching her own new show.
"Her show, as you know it, is not coming to OWN," the New York Post quoted Norman as telling USA Today.
"She's going to have a significant presence on this network," but won't be doing a cable version of Oprah.
"Pieces of that show, we're going to want to find ways to retain; but I don't think the format exists in anyone's mind right now," she added.
The new network has announced only a few shows hosted by Oprah-regular Lisa Ling, sex therapist Laura Berman, Winfrey's pal Gayle King and professional organiser Peter Walsh (Clean Sweep), who's also an Oprah regular.
Winfrey herself will narrate a profile series called Master Class.