While traditionalists may see a risk to his reputation, Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show is his effort as one of the great hopes to inherit the audience Oprah Winfrey left behind.

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Anderson Cooper Seeks to Show his Daytime Side

Thanks to the Oprah Winfrey Network, Rosie O’Donnel l will be back on television on Oct. 10, airing right before Winfrey’s new “OWN Your Life: The Oprah Class.” In the meantime, OWN has released the first teaser trailer. “It’s me, Rosie O’Donnell. Not Kathy Bates. And not Roseanne Barr. People sometimes in the mall mistake me for them,” O’Donnell says in the trailer, small child in tow. Read full article > >

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The influence of religion on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” was easy to see, but the lessons Ms. Winfrey shared with her flock were sometimes questionable.

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Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering

After 25 years on the air, The Oprah Winfrey Show aired its final episode Wednesday to a mass audience, garnering the highest ratings the program has seen in 17 years. The final episode posted a 13.3 household rating overnight. Her numbers have not…

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Oprah’s Finale Gets Big Numbers

Veteran talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s final programme broadcast on Wednesday after 25 years on the air.

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Veteran talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s final programme will broadcast on Wednesday after 25 years on the air.

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The Oprah Winfrey Show is ending after 25 years, one of the longest-running and most-watched programmes in US history. What was its impact?

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10 moments that made Oprah Winfrey

In the longest TV-series finale ever, three whole days are being devoted to the laying to rest of Oprah Winfrey’s program. Monday kicked off a two-day orgy of celebrities turning out to say goodbye to a daytime talk show under the banner “Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular.” It’s the kind of turnout usually reserved for prime-time charity-fundraiser telethons after natural disasters. Then on Wednesday, Oprah will do her very last turn as Queen of Daytime Talk TV. Plans for that day’s show are still top-secret. Read full article > >

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The TV Column: Oprah’s long farewell kicks off with a star-studded ‘Spectacular’

Wednesday will mark the end of an era, as Oprah airs her final daytime talk show. Is television ready for life after O? Daytime television executives are looking to Ellen DeGeneres and Dr. Oz to fill the gap, as well as an upcoming daytime talk show…

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TV Prepares for Life after Oprah

The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson tells US talk show host Oprah Winfrey that not receiving an invitation to the recent royal wedding was “difficult”.

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Duchess wedding snub ‘difficult’

Things are amiss in Oprahland: The Oprah Winfrey Network has fired its chief, Christina Norman, just four months after the network debuted. The move comes after the chief executive of Discovery Communications admitted OWN had a “slower start” than…

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Oprah Fires Network Chief

Fun fact No. 1 from “The Nate Berkus Show” (WRC at 2 p.m.) on Tuesday afternoon: Oprah Winfrey calls her home in Montecito, Calif., “the Promised Land.” Berkus, an Oprah protege, sits down with the talk-show legend for an interview and takes a tour of the home’s tea house and rose garden.

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TV Highlights: ‘Frontline: Fighting for Bin Laden’; ‘Inside 9/11’ on NatGeo

Just saying it’s business, not personal doesn’t make this any less painful for President Obama: Sources say Oprah Winfrey will not be endorsing him in 2012 because she doesn’t want ratings to fall at her fledgling network. “Unlike in 2008, when a drop…

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Oprah Won’t Endorse Obama in ’12: Report

Not everything Oprah touches turns to gold: Her television network OWN is getting a “reboot” after just two months. “We’re doing a lot of changes to the schedule,” a spokesman tells the New York Post, and the network will also invest in new advertising…

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Oprah’s Network Reboots Already