Breaking News: Oprah to Go Off the Air in 2011
Oprah Winfrey attends the opening night gala celebrating Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 50th anniversary on December 3, 2008 in New York City.
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So long, Oprah Winfrey Show.
Tim Bennett, the president of Harpo, Oprah's production company, has announced that the show will go off the air.
"Tomorrow, Oprah will announce live on The Oprah Winfrey Show that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history," the statement read. "The sun will set on the Oprah show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011."
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A rep for Winfrey previously said the daytime queen planned to make an announcement by year's end about whether she was planning to make a leap from her current daytime talk show to her previously announced cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). No further details were available.
The Oprah Winfrey Show is currently the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States, having run nationally since September 8, 1986.
The show was named one of the best television series of the 20th century in 1998 by Time magazine; TV Guide hailed it as one of the top 50 greatest American shows of all time in 2002.
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Throughout the years, Winfrey had several unforgettable moments.
On December 25, 1986, Liberace made his final public appearance on Oprah, dying six weeks later from AIDS.
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Winfrey also frequently chronicled her weight ups and downs on her show, even doing a show titled "The Weight Wagon" in November 5, 1988. The episode featured her wheeling out a wagon containing fat, representing the weight she had lost.
In 2005, Tom Cruise proclaimed his love for Katie Holmes by jumping on a couch.
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Winfrey recently came under fire for hosting a show with Charla Nash, who revealed what her face looked like for the first time since she was mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee.
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49Her and the rest of the world's billionaries should 'give it up' and assist our world with their billions because our world is falling and is broke!
Oprah's school is a school of Oppression.
I am impressed by the show but not with Oprah the person anymore. You will be remembered who you were and not you are.
YOU GO GIRL!! RICH AND FAMOUS- ENJOY YOUR BILLION$!!
Well i have to start out saying to you hater's so of you people will never change you were born a hater and will die one. I speake for all of Oprah's fans. We love her and wish her all the best in anything she does she is a God fearing person may God keep on blessing her. From another God fearing Woman.
I have enjoyed some of her shows over the years - but I don't believe in her politics - she's too back and forth. The show has run its course and I will be fine with it ending. She's a very wealthy woman and can live comfortably - even if she chose to do nothing.
Whew. It's about time. I just hope she takes off with her lover Gayle and does not throw her liberal adjendas around politically or on another show. Be off I say! Be off! BuhBye.
Oh no! Why?! She is great! I never thought she would be going off the air:(
I wont be sad to see the show end and I hope that my cable provider will not carry her channel. Sorry, but I am tired of Oprah, she is completely over exposed.
HPR- Oprah is actually from Mississippi.
Oprah is "huge" as is her career. She should of left years ago.
THANK GOD~~~~been over her for like the last 20 years!
Get too too happy people. She's simply ending her syndicated show, but starting one up on her OWN network.
FINALLY.
Job well done. Perhaps she is ready to live her NEXT "best life."
IS IT TRUE THAT SHE'S FROM WEST AFRICA (LIBERIA)?
THANK GOD!!!!
Great, then she and GAYle can ride off into the sunset together!!
Wow - 26 years - and never saw her show. Not sad or happy.
haven't seen her since 2003