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Author Topic: Oprah Winfrey announces her show will end in 2011! Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 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?  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 11-20-2009 02:46 PM                        I'll alert the media.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-20-2009 03:20 PM                  Paul =  |  IP: Logged Sam Graham AKA: "The Evil Sam Graham". Wackiness ensues. Posts: 1431 From: Waukee, IA Registered: Dec 2004 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 11-20-2009 06:00 PM                     Party like it's 1999  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Tony Gallimore Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Willis, Virginia, USA Registered: Jul 2009 posted 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!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Dave Macaulay Film God Posts: 2321 From: Toronto, Canada Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-27-2009 08:00 AM                     yawn.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 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.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 11-27-2009 09:59 AM                        Unfortunately, Oprah's retirement opens up more room for Rachel Ray  |  IP: Logged

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