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*Radar Online is reporting that Oprah Winfrey is trying to recruit her close friend Maria Shriver to host a show on OWN as early as this fall. The news comes days after Winfrey cancelled Rosie O’Donnell’s short-lived talk show due to low ratings, and laid off 30 staffers at the network. “Oprah knows she needs [...]
*Rosie O’Donnell shot a video to tamp down all the talk surrounding the cancellation of her talk show on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. “It was fair,” said O’Donnell from the Chicago set of The Rosie Show. “Listen: Oprah gave me an amazing shot at doing this. She really did. She put me back on TV. [...]
*It’s all over for Rosie O’Donnell and Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. “The Rosie Show” is being ditched by the network five months after it initially aired. The show premiered in October to about 500,000 viewers but lost about half that audience within days of its debut. To no avail producers tried changing the show’s format. It [...]
*Since Oprah’s namesake show went off the air last September, her magazine’s newsstand sales have also faded from sight, reports. Adweek Brass at Hearst, which publishes the 2.4 million circulated publication with Winfrey, had downplayed the impact of the show’s ending on the magazine, saying they expected fans to turn to it to get their [...]
*Just six months after having twins Moroccan and Monroe, Mariah Carey has shed the baby weight and is flaunting her toned abs on both the cover of Us Weekly through a big reveal Tuesday on Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show. “I gained an enormous amount of weight,” she told “The Rosie Show, “adding that she [...]
*The ratings are in for OWN’s premieres of “The Rosie Show” and “Oprah’s Lifeclass,” which premiered back to back on Monday to part of an overall revamp of Oprah Winfrey’s struggling network. Rosie O’Donnell’s 7 p.m. series lured 497,000 total viewers to its premiere telecast. That number — though a vast improvement from the previous [...]
*The New York Post is reporting that Oprah Winfrey’s OWN got another big bailout check from its partner company to keep it afloat. The paper claims Winfrey’s partner in the channel, Discovery Communications, is investing millions more to promote OWN and expose it to new viewers, sources said. As previously reported, Discovery will carry the [...]
*After a summer’s worth of hype and buildup, the Oprah Winfrey Network is finally set to premiere what it hopes will back-to-back ratings superheroes: “The Rosie Show,” followed by “Oprah’s Lifeclass.” An indication of just how vital the shows are, OWN’s parent company Discovery has decided to premiere both shows across four of its other [...]
*Oprah Winfrey made a personal appearance before TV critics this morning as the new CEO of her network OWN. During brief opening remarks before introducing Rosie O’Donnell to discuss her new talk show for the network, Winfrey announced that she will be hosting a new primetime show “OWN Your Life: The Oprah Class,” which will [...]
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