Not contented to have an eponymous talk show, production company, book club, magazine and soon cable channel, Oprah has decided to really branch out and do a project that's all about her, with a series on the new Oprah Winfrey Network centered around the ending of her syndicated program, as the Times is reporting. The only thing missing now is the theme park. (We were also nonplussed to see from the story that Oprah's decorator sidekick Nate Berkus is getting his own syndicated show, produced, naturally, by Oprah's Harpo. When a marginal talent whose design genius rivals that of Colin Cowie and who looks like the kind of 90-lb weakling who used to get pushed down a flight of stairs in school gets his own series, we're pretty sure it heralds the end of the once-great daytime talk show genre.)
Tuesday, February 2
In Novel Twist, Oprah Does Project All About Her
Not contented to have an eponymous talk show, production company, book club, magazine and soon cable channel, Oprah has decided to really branch out and do a project that's all about her, with a series on the new Oprah Winfrey Network centered around the ending of her syndicated program, as the Times is reporting. The only thing missing now is the theme park. (We were also nonplussed to see from the story that Oprah's decorator sidekick Nate Berkus is getting his own syndicated show, produced, naturally, by Oprah's Harpo. When a marginal talent whose design genius rivals that of Colin Cowie and who looks like the kind of 90-lb weakling who used to get pushed down a flight of stairs in school gets his own series, we're pretty sure it heralds the end of the once-great daytime talk show genre.)
