Rejoice, for our empress of everything the light touches has returned to the art form that gave us The Women of Brewster Place. Yes, minions: Oprah has returned to scripted television. Queen O will appear on a melodrama called Greenleaf...on the network she owns (OWNs?).
Last month, when Iyanla Vanzant’s Fix My Life returned to television for its fifth season, it marked the second decade of her relationship with America as television’s tell-like-it-is auntie. For 20 years, she’s been offering life advice and therapeutic expertise, perhaps more enduring than any other self-help expert…
Do you want or need love advice from Tyrese? What about Rev Run? Doesn’t matter! You’re gonna get it.
OWN is trashing a series it was supposed to air about a man with 34 kids.
Ava DuVernay is having a good year. The filmmaker is teaming up with Oprah to create a new series for the Oprah Winfrey Network based off of the novel Queen Sugar. DuVernay will wear multiple hats as the writer, director and executive producer of the series, while Oprah will executive produce and have a recurring role…
In January, Oprah's OWN is airing Light Girls, the sequel to the 2011 documentary Dark Girls that explores issues of colorism in the black community.
Oh Oxygen. We need it to breathe, we need it to live and the executives over at the television network it's named after are always trying to convince us that we need to watch it.
The penultimate episode of Lindsay featured all the classic elements of "the Lohan suite"—a little bit of Dina, some familial finger-pointing, 7 am coke jaw, pathological tardiness and lack of professional commitment. It was enough to push an Elle editor—who forgot she was still wearing her mic pack—over the edge.
Yes, Lindsay Lohan's flakiness, pathological tardiness, and refusal to adhere to a shooting schedule—all of which have become the meat of her docu-series—makes her look totally unprofessional and a risky hire for potential producers. But the real reason why Lindsay is the final nail in the coffin of her career is…
A brilliant move by the documentary team behind Lindsay is that they filmed Oprah's reaction as she got briefed on the progress of the docu-series. The news was not good: Lindsay was being difficult, refusing to film and holding the entire production hostage. Oprah sucked on her cheeks before saying she would rather…
Just two episodes into Lindsay it's apparent that the troubled actress needed the OWN reality series for more than just to relaunch her career. She's seemingly flat broke and the production company behind her show had to come through with checks for her rent, security deposit and broker's fee. The money was an…
Lindsay Lohan's long-awaited (and very creatively titled) eight-part series Lindsay has gotten a release date and time: Sunday March 9 at 10 pm on OWN. Coincidentally, March 8 is International Working Woman's Day!
Patti LaBelle was the guest on last night's episode of Oprah's Next Chapter. She regularly furrowed her brow at Oprah's questions, often answering them with a side-eye and a "What!" It was, in short, everything you'd want it to be. Moreover, it was everything, period.
Stealing liberally from TLC, Oprah Winfrey's OWN network has ordered a full series of Crazy.Sexy.Life, a reality television show about four black women living in Harlem.
According to the starstruck executives at OWN, Oprah has landed the interview of the millennium, or, at the very least, an interview with a millennial: Lindsay Lohan will offer her first post-rehab musings to Oprah's patient visage. Not only that, but the new-and-improved, post-rehab Lindz will also star in a short…
The Oprah Winfrey Network has doubled the number of episodes ordered for the first season of Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots. “Tyler’s fans and OWN viewers have responded to this guilty pleasure in record numbers, and we are happy to give them more of a good thing," said OWN president and Behind the 25th…
After loads of negative press that must have driven her crazy, Oprah's OWN network is finally hitting its stride, and it's all because she's not making shows for white audiences anymore. That's the conclusion Allison Samuels comes to in her piece for the Daily Beast Thursday about how Oprah has figured out What Women…
The ratings trouble plaguing Oprah's teetering television dominion, OWN, has been well-documented, but now the network is facing a good old-fashioned sex discrimination suit. Actually, not so good, at least not if the lawsuit filed Friday by Carolyn Hommel, the former senior director of scheduling and acquisitions at…
Oprah is slowly regaining her throne again after some early struggles to find viewers for OWN, which has increased its audience from 52,000 in 2011 to a healthier 66,000. Consiglieres close to Oprah say that she's learned a lot of important life-lessons about achieving a balance in her business endeavors, and realized…
It's not quite time to mourn the passing of the television hothouse experiment in hubris that is Oprah's floundering cable channel — Comcast has agreed to a new distribution deal with the Oprah Winfrey Network, which would guarantee that OWN will be beaming its mediocre programming into 83 million homes, according to…
