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Oprah to ABC: It's Not You, It's Me

Posted Nov 8th 2008 1:00PM by TMZ Staff

OprahLady Oprah has finally grown past the relationship she has with ABC, and now may be ready to do her own thing.

Reports have surfaced saying Oprah will be joining forces with Discovery Communications to form the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) which promises a brand new potpourri of fuzzy, cuddly, safe for everyone programming that tests high in both heart-warming and heart-wrenching categories.

David Zaslav, Discovery's president and CEO says, "The expectation is that after [the 2010-11 season] her show will go into syndication, and she will come to OWN."

Harpo Productions responded saying, "While David Zaslav's comments are true that Oprah's current contract to produce 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' will expire in 2011, she has not made a final decision as to whether she will continue her show in syndication beyond that."

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1. 115 of TMZS Oprah and "Mystery Man"
. Oprah, it's interesting that you turned to a stranger when Stedman was right there. I don't get it.

Posted at 8:27PM on Nov 7th 2008 by Janet


It was a photo OP plain and simple!! The big O is a media monger and staged the whole thing! I bet the so called "Mystery Man" was not a mystery man at all and that he was in on the whole thing!

Noprah knew that the picture would be shown all over the world even upstaging Obama's speech. She probably even thought it would go down in history as one of LIFES 100 most memorable pictures!!

I can see the caption now;

MARTIN LUTHER KING'S DREAM A DREAM NO MORE!! BLACK WOMAN CRYS ON WHITE MYSTERY MAN'S SHOULDER WHILE LISTENING TO AMERICA'S FIRST BIRACIAL PRESIDENT'S SPEECH!!


In MLK "I Have A Dream" speech, He spoke of his desire for a future where blacks and whites would coexist harmoniously as equals.

Brad Pitt is also a media monger who like Noprah will do anything for attention!!

It is a good thing Angie wasn't there because ALL of the attention would have been on her and the others Noprah, Brad and Obama would have amounted to a pinch of coon s**t!

Posted at 1:14PM on Nov 8th 2008 by OPrah staged the whole "Mystery Man" thing for a photo OP

2. WONDERFUL....SHE CAN SPREAD MORE DISCONTENT & BIAS UNDER THE GUISE OF "PROGRAMING".
JUST WONDERFUL.

Posted at 1:15PM on Nov 8th 2008 by HOLLYWOOD WATCHER

3. After making a total idiot of heself on the show after the election ... I hope she goes off to cable and does her thing there.She no class. (and I'm a Barack supporter, by the way!)

Posted at 1:19PM on Nov 8th 2008 by moveover00

4. Liberals are so full of themselves.

Posted at 1:22PM on Nov 8th 2008 by Mik

5. Wow.
Saucy and Sassy.
One her OWN network.

Wonder when she will give Black Jesus his OWN show.

And his Predator-looking wife, too.

Posted at 1:23PM on Nov 8th 2008 by Toby Christensen

6. After watching the evolution of OPRAH over these past few years , and how she has used her vast fortune buying the White House , it gives me a second thought about TYRA BANKS and her rise to MOGUL status, maybe we should ALL rethink these KING MAKERS , and the power we give them by watching their programms. imo

Posted at 1:26PM on Nov 8th 2008 by Tumbleweeds in the Desert

7. Oprah Winfrey is the anti-christ. When will she finally come out of closet with her girlfriend Gayle. Obama should come out as well, we know why the "first ho" is so angry.

Posted at 1:30PM on Nov 8th 2008 by Stop the hate

8. I am also an Obama supporter but can't stand Noprah with her big head. It has been ages since I watched her show and most people I know can't stand her either!

Obama will feel obligated to kowtow to this fat cow for the money and celebrity she donated to his campaign.
Obama didn't need Noprah to get elected, Sad that he didn't have the confidence to leave her out of the picture!

And another thing that really pisses me off is that the colored people are acting as if Obama owes them big time and seem to have forgot that whites and hispanic also elected him as their president!

Obama says he wants to unite the people and America but the colored people will continue to create discord and dissention . It's already started and let's hope to God it doesn't spiral out of control. We elected Obama to take us FORWARD NOT BACKWARDS!!!

Posted at 1:41PM on Nov 8th 2008 by OPrah staged the whole "Mystery Man thing for photo OP

9. I was watching some footage - not even sure what it was from, but Obama was on stage, his wife on one side, Oprah on the other and he turns and hugs Oprah before his wife. Wonder if it was a cold night in the Obama house that night!

Posted at 1:55PM on Nov 8th 2008 by Becky

10. Hey TMZ are you sure its ABC? I thought her contract was with NBC. If it's ABC wouldn't her show be on that channel instead of NBC?

Posted at 2:07PM on Nov 8th 2008 by gossip fix

11. BLOGGERS #2,5 AND 8. STOP YOUR DRAMA.
GROW UP

Posted at 2:17PM on Nov 8th 2008 by nailin paylin in the rear with no loob.

12. blogger #9 is gay.

Posted at 2:24PM on Nov 8th 2008 by Kim Kardashian and Planet Asia, together again !

13. #11 I believe her show is syndicated so any station that wants to air her show can buy it.

Posted at 2:17PM on Nov 8th 2008 by Luke Warmwater

14. I am an Obama supporter also but......I have to admit, I never cared much for Oprahs talk show but now its just downright painful to watch. She is acting crazier than the infamous Tom Cruise incident. It takes everything I got to not toss my cookies everytime she asks one of her guests where they were when the election happened. Shut the hell up already. It's celebrities like her that really need to realize he was voted in because America needs change and not just to satisfy the "need" for a black man!!

Posted at 2:35PM on Nov 8th 2008 by deezeey

15. Excuse me while I go throw up...everyone I know is sick of her & hasn't tuned in to watch her show. Magazine sub. have been cancelled. and you are going to see her audience get blacker and blacker as she loses her white viewers. We just do't care anymore.

Posted at 2:37PM on Nov 8th 2008 by RLR

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