OWN - Oprah Winfrey Network!!!???
TVGirl319
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I know that I have mentioned this before in the past, but in 5 days time Oprah Winfreys new Cable network Channel, OWN, launches in the USA, and I was wondering if anyone knows any inside information as to whether this channel will be available over here anytime soon!!:D:D:D
I really hope so, as, from what I have seen online, theres some awesome shows lined up for broadcasting on it!!!
I really hope so, as, from what I have seen online, theres some awesome shows lined up for broadcasting on it!!!
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Her show just has not caught the British publics attention, possibly because its been on Pay TV for most of its run, or its just not the kind of show that does well over here.
Orpah may have started from nothing, and have acheieved ALOT, but her name means little over here.
Also, I think its because over here we have been brainwashed into watching such Brit talk show hosts such as Trisha Goddard and Jeremy Kyle and having them rammed down our throats that we have all but forgotten Oprah!!!
It was the same with Tyra Banks!! Her show only lasted the first season when it first started in the USA and was shown over here!!! Tyras show is still going strong over there!!!!
Alot as in what? A chatshow? Wow!
Any example of a US talk show ive seen has failed, The Ellen Degenress Show used to be on FiveLife, but again got axed, they just dont last.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah#.27The_Oprah_Effect.27
http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyTopProgrammes
Oprah airing to 6,000 viewers.
Diva TV is not much of a TV channel.
I agree, she was even one of the endorsees for Barack Obama!! She has opened a girls school in South Africa and even counts Nelson Mandela as one of her closest friends!! Shes a multi-billionaire!!! She has her own Magazine, O Magazine, which is sold worldwide!! During the past few weeks of her Farewell Season she has given away millions of dollars worth of items, called Her Favourite Things, to audience members, treated her first audience(who were her 300 most loyal audience and TV viewers) of her farewell season, to a return 10-day trip to Australia with the plane being piloted by John Travolta no less on Quantas(It was all arranged and paid for between her and the Australian Government). She actually broadcast her show live to the US from Austraila with a host of famous Australian people, like Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, etc as guests!!!
She has championed and campaigned for many worthwhile causes and charities over the years!!
What has all our pathetic talk show hosts done in all their miserable lives???? **** ALL compared to Oprah!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad:
She has even changed the lives of so many people in so many ways in many facets of life!!!!
That I agree!!
If those shows were on other channels I am sure they would all have far more thousands of viewers than they do on Diva!!!!
I am surprised that DivaTV is still going to be perfectly honest!!!!:D:D:D
Richard & Judy were a strong brand in the UK, and I dare say have kept Oprah and the other US shows out of the UK market, or at least on small unimportant channels like Diva TV. Even Trisha was a well known name in UK daytime.
if the Sarah Ferguson talk show was up to anything it would get bought by a UK TV channel, Oprah having to set up OWN UK to air OWN programs, is almost like admitting they are a failure in the UK market.
You are so right!! A case in point is Hugh Laurie!! If he had stayed over here in this hellhole he would still be a B-Listed comedian(as every comedian over here is, by the way), but he went over to the USA and now, look where he is!! HUGELY successful in the medical drama House and he is even one of Americas hottest sex symbols, plus the fact he has won countless Emmies and Golden Globe Awards!!! The same with Craig Ferguson and hundreds of other British entertainers, who decided to try their luck in the USA and succeeded!!!!
Even David Beckham is more popular over there now than he is here!!!:eek::eek::eek:
Also thats the trouble, we have marketed our own pathetic chatshow hosts, who havent got an ounce of talent or professionalism, more than concentrated on far more superior talk show hosts like Oprah!!!!:mad::mad:
No he isn't. David Beckham is known of over there, but has not had huge success. When he moved there, it was hoped he would bring Soccer to the forefront of American Sport, but his time with LA Galaxy is thought of as a huge flop by most commentators.
Just some of the quotes from Katharine Esters from family and friends which appear in her book.
Some of Winfrey’s nearest and dearest have turned on her, with her elder cousin claiming the TV host made up her ‘life of adversity’ in rural Mississippi to sway public opinion.
Katharine Esters, 81, tells ‘poison pen’ biographer Kitty Kelley that Winfrey was actually a ‘spoiled’ child in the new unauthorised book simply titled: Oprah.
Oprah has also been involved in criminal activity including online fraud and theft.
‘Where Oprah got that nonsense about growing up in filth and roaches I have no idea,’ says Esters.
Winfrey once claimed she never had new dresses and made do playing with cockroaches that she named Melinda and Sandy.
Esters tells the author: ‘I confronted her and asked, ‘‘Why do you tell such lies?’’. Oprah told me, ‘That’s what people want to hear. The truth is boring’’.’
Esters insists she knows the true identity of Oprah’s biological father, despite the 56-year-old star claiming she does not know who he is.
Esters says it is down to Oprah’s mother, Vernita Lee, to tell her his name.
She said: ‘You’ll know when that happens because Oprah will probably have a show called Finding Your Real Father. As I said, the girl wastes nothing.’
Other allegations aimed at Oprah in the book are that she is ‘asexual’ and does charity work purely to boost her profile.
Kelley also claims she paid an ex-boyfriend hush money to keep quiet about her gay brother who has aids
Taken from various internet sources
(Katie Price, Cheryl Cole or Kerry Katona networks)
David Beckham IS more popular over in the USA than here now!! He is constantly on talk shows over there(hes done a round of talk shows just recently), his perfumes and colognes, along with his wifes', sell like hot cakes!! He is deemed one of the most sexiest men alive in certain publications and opinion polls in the USA!! He models underwear and the ads are splashed all over huge billboards in cities!!!
If you want my opinion, the Beckhams did the right thing by moving over to LA!!!:D:D:D
Also he is now being offered film and TV scripts, so maybe thats where he will eventually end up as football(soccer) doesnt last forever!!!
Soccer being played by girls is not going to helo the MLS or the game at large.
http://www.womensoccer.com/biogs/hamm.html
http://miafoundation.org/
Not by Beckham himself though. When he signed for Galaxy the manager of Real Madrid at the time wasnt playing him and the England manager had made it clear Beckham was no longer in his plans, so Becks agreed to move to America to wind his career down, make a huge amount of money and so his wife could start ventures in LA.
Of course after agreeing the move he came back in favour at Real, the England manager did an about turn because he was buggering it all up and Beckham's star rose again. Had he waited before signing for Galaxy, I am sure he would in the end have never gone, he could have easily walked to another big European Club at the end of his Real contract if deciding not to stay there.
A reported $6m was paid by the Australian Tourist Board to do a show at the Sydney 'Oprah' House. Therefore it is likely those Australians present were paid to be there.
Granted it made the news, but more fool channels like the BBC falling for the publicity.
Pay me $6m and I'd even be prepared to say Cheryl Cole is the nation's sweetheart.