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Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 11-20-2009, 02:18 PM:

OMG! Oprah Winfrey has announced that her show will end in 2011, after 25 years on the air!

How can we live? What are we gonna DO!?

Suggestions? [Razz]

Posted by Galen Murphy-Fahlgren (Member # 4535) on 11-20-2009, 02:29 PM:

Well, she says the show is ending in September 2011, so fortunately we'll only have to survive for a little over a year before the end of the world in 2012. I think we can make it through a year subsisting on reruns and tearful montages set to cheesy music. I mean, I hope we can, I pray we can. I don't know what other choice we have, really.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 11-20-2009, 02:36 PM:

I heard she got arrested...they found 40 pounds of crack up her dress between her legs.

Good riddance.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 11-20-2009, 02:46 PM:

I'll alert the media.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 11-20-2009, 03:20 PM:

Paul = [thumbsup]

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 11-20-2009, 05:56 PM:

I remember the hype leading up to the launch of the show. There was tons of it. And I'm sitting there wondering "Who the fuck is Oprah Winfrey and who the fuck cares?"

Silly me.

Posted by Ian Parfrey (Member # 5122) on 11-20-2009, 06:00 PM:

Party like it's 1999

[beer]

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-20-2009, 06:00 PM:

You guys are assuming she's going to retire. Not the case - she's forming her own network, OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network) so there will actually be MORE Oprah than ever before. God help us all.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 11-20-2009, 06:13 PM:

Just take your point of:
1) Not getting cable
2) Not subscribing to a package that includes her shit channel
3) If you really want cable and can't get a package w/o her channel then simply set things up so that channel just doesn't show up.

Posted by Tony Gallimore (Member # 5358) on 11-20-2009, 10:08 PM:

Do you think it might have anything to do with the Myan calendar ending in 2012? Don't guess I'll miss her, I've never watched.

Mike: I'm not assuming... it more like wishing!

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 11-20-2009, 10:58 PM:

I don't have anything against Oprah Winfrey, so I won't bash her. Nonetheless, I see this announcement as little more than a publicity release. It's designed to get a lot of people to get into watching her show's last episodes, whether those people are former viewers who gradually stopped watching or grab folks who never watched previously.

After 25 years and making God only knows how much money it would seem obvious Oprah is probably tired as hell of doing that show. So why not pull out the stops and make a lot of advertising money on the way out? It's a good business move. The whole thing is all about business. That's the big picture. Not the ideology nonsense that snares most of the crowd.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 11-20-2009, 11:19 PM:

Obviously it's a business move. She's already expanded beyond her TV show. The off-shoot shows she helped get going (like Dr Phil and Dr Oz) are part of her production company and she's got a magazine. But I wouldn't be surprised if she ventures into cable.

On the other hand, I doubt this announcement itself is meant to make people excited for her last few episodes, because the last few episodes don't happen for quite some time.

Posted by Dave Macaulay (Member # 813) on 11-27-2009, 08:00 AM:

yawn.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-27-2009, 09:41 AM:

quote: Chris Slycord
On the other hand, I doubt this announcement itself is meant to make people excited for her last few episodes, because the last few episodes don't happen for quite some time.

No, but it's given her about $5 million in free publicity which will undoubtedly spike the viewership.

Posted by Martin McCaffery (Member # 37) on 11-27-2009, 09:59 AM:

Unfortunately, Oprah's retirement opens up more room for Rachel Ray [Frown]

Posted by Rachel Craven (Member # 1016) on 11-27-2009, 10:34 AM:

Well.. like said above she has announced starting her own network and there are rumors of her show actually not going off the air, she is going to leave it to someone else, and word is - she'll be a very regular special guest. =P

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 11-27-2009, 01:41 PM:

Dave Letterman's been saying that he's going to take it over. And his first guest will be...Oprah.

Posted by Paul J. Neuhaus (Member # 3205) on 11-29-2009, 08:36 PM:

If she does start her own network let me know what I can do to help in 2012!!! More then a year would fucking kill me anyway [puke]

Posted by Louis Bornwasser (Member # 3063) on 11-30-2009, 09:44 AM:

Doesn't she already have all of the money in the world already? Louis

Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 11-30-2009, 01:06 PM:

She should give away more chicken.

Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 12-08-2009, 12:50 PM:

Does this mean she'll start in the prequel to "2012" that will of course be called "2011"?

Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 12-08-2009, 03:04 PM:

I'm trying to think of titles to the programs which will eventually show up on the Oprah Winfrey Network (without getting political). Shows like Blame it on Men or I'll Never Marry Him or Keeping Your Private Jet Private or... you guys are a lot more clever than I am. Please come up with some shows.

I've always wondered why Oprah is so popular among middle-class housewives while having almost nothing in common with them.

Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 12-08-2009, 03:30 PM:

Might be because she's black...everything black is cool, ya know. [Big Grin]

Posted by Greg Anderson (Member # 235) on 12-08-2009, 03:49 PM:

Is that another show title?

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 12-10-2009, 12:40 PM:

From the Oprah tree...

My soon-to-be-ex-wife is going to be on the "Dr. Oz" show. They're taping it tomorrow in Manhattan. It's not like she's a guest, though. She and some friends got tickets to the show, and a producer emailed asking if they had any questions for the doctor. They chose Lori's question, so she's going to be one of those in the audience they approach with a microphone, and she'll get some face time.