Sometimes shows should be cancelled because they’re bad and VH1’s previously-defunct Single Ladies is just that. Unfortunately, when crappy shows have a built-in audience of more than 2.6 million viewers, some lazy network will dredge them up if only to sell more suspect Dove products against LisaRaye’s attempts at…
Just a day late for the Ides of March, Oprah Winfery's faltering OWN network announced that it will cancel Rosie O'Donnell's eponymous talk show, The Rosie Show. But why? you ask. It's actually quite simple — nobody's tuning in, despite occasional spikes in viewership from an Oprah-hosted interview series and…
In light of the recent revelation that Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network has horrible ratings, network officials are planning to reshuffle the schedule and invest millions into a new advertising campaign. Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, which just happens to be the only show Oprah appears on, is the only real hit. Thus,…
Despite conventional wisdom, Oprah's fans don't blindly follow her every command. In fact, two months after its launch, her OWN Network is struggling to find an audience, even though Oprah is constantly plugging it on her talk show. The New York Times reports:
Oprah's website has been flooded complaints from fans about needing a basic, or in some areas premium, cable subscription for the OWN Network. They'll buy Oprah's magazine, Book Club selections, and Favorite Things but paying to watch her is outrageous.
In this commercial running in movie theaters, Oprah wonders, "What if I could take...every lesson that motivated me; every opportunity that was given to me; and give it to you?" We'd all get a new car?! No, just OWN Network.
During a speech at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference this week, Oprah Winfrey said that the OWN Network will be, "fun and entertaining without tearing people down and calling them bitches. Imagine that. Imagine."
Just when she thought she was out, they pulled her back in. Oprah is (somewhat reluctantly, it seems) going on camera for a show on her new cable channel, but she's leaving daytime and "getting untethered from the chairs"!
