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The Oprah Winfrey Show (also known as Oprah) is a United States syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history.[1] Image File history File linksMetadata OprahWinfreyShow. ...
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Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ...
Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ...
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December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ...
is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
2011 (MMXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ...
A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ...
Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ...
It is currently the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States, having run since September 8, 1986, for over 22 seasons and 3,000 episodes (as of September 10, 2007). The show is renewed through 2011 but in a 2007 interview with Larry King, Oprah said that in 2011 she will not renew her contract, and thus end the show for good.[citation needed] Daytime television is the general term for television shows produced that are intended to air during the daytime hours. ...
is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
This article is about the television show host. ...
Oprah has been included in Time magazine's shortlist of the best television series of the twentieth century in 1998, and it made the top 50 of TV Guide's countdown of the greatest shows of all time[2] in 2002. “TIME†redirects here. ...
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The show is highly influential, especially with women, and many of its topics penetrate into American pop-cultural consciousness. While early episodes of the show followed a Phil Donahue-style exploration of sensationalistic social issues, Oprah eventually transformed her series into a more positive, spiritually uplifting experience marked by book clubs, celebrity interviews, self-improvement segments, and philanthropic forays into world events. Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ...
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A book discussion club is a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc. ...
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Wildest Dreams One of the show's features in recent years has been the "Wildest Dreams" tour, which fulfills the dreams of people reported to her by producers, found mostly from viewers who write in to the show, be the dream a new house, an encounter with a favorite performer, or a guest role on a popular TV show.
During her nineteenth season premiere (fall 2004), Oprah surprised her entire audience by giving them each a Pontiac G6. It was named as one of the greatest television moments in history by TV Guide. Although Oprah may be given credit for giving the cars away, they were donated to her by Pontiac as a publicity stunt. In 2005, Tina Turner guest starred, allowing Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman to fulfill her Wildest Dream of singing backup to Turner. Another included a man named David Caruso who lost 300 pounds after weighing 525 pounds. He came on the show in 2003 and told Oprah that one of his wishes was to sit in a Porsche. Minutes later, a white 2004 Porsche Boxster S (worth about $63,000) was given to him. Oprah named this one of her 20 favorite moments on a special DVD set. For other uses, see Audience (disambiguation). ...
Pontiac G6 coupe Pontiac G6 hardtop convertible The Pontiac G6 is a mid-size car released in September 2004 for the 2005 model year. ...
TV Guide is the name of two North American weekly magazines about television programming, one in the United States and one in Canada. ...
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The media itself often stage stunts for movies and television shows. ...
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) November 26, 1939) is an 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. ...
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Interviews Winfrey has interviewed a plethora of political and public figures during the past twenty years. In the earlier seasons of the show, rather than offering a simple publicity platform, a celebrity would often feature after a period of intense media scrutiny, such was the case when the model Naomi Campbell appeared after there were claims she had a substance abuse problem. She often interviews celebrities on issues that directly involve them in some way, such as cancer or charity work.[citation needed] Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups. ...
Naomi Campbell (born May 22, 1970) is an English supermodel, actress, singer, and author. ...
Winfrey claims her worst interviewing experience was with Elizabeth Taylor in the fourth season. The actress refused to talk about her marriages and current relationship, leading to a number of awkward silences. Taylor later apologized and returned in a better frame of mind a year later. For other persons named Elizabeth Taylor, see Elizabeth Taylor (disambiguation). ...
In December 2003, AJ McLean appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show where he talked for the first time in public about his addiction to alcohol and drugs, and his struggles rising to fame. The rest of the band surprised him by arriving in person to give him support, marking the first time the Backstreet Boys had appeared together in public in almost two years. The band began to reform and reconcile their differences to start recording a comeback album. Image File history File links Bsboprah. ...
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Alexander James McLean (born January 9, 1978[1]) is an American musician and member of the boy band Backstreet Boys. ...
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 Tom Cruise jumps ecstatically on Oprah's couch Oprah's interview with Tom Cruise, which was broadcast on May 23, 2005, has also gained notoriety. Cruise — according to the The New York Times — "jumped around the set, hopped onto a couch, fell rapturously to one knee and repeatedly professed his love for his new girlfriend." This scene quickly became part of American pop-cultural discourse and was heavily parodied in media as diverse as Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, Hannah Montana and the film Scary Movie 4. Tom Cruise jumping on Oprahs Couch This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ...
Tom Cruise jumping on Oprahs Couch This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ...
Oprah Winfrey, (born January 29, 1954) is a multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. ...
Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on July 3, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and film producer. ...
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Family Guy is an Emmy Award-winning American animated television series about a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Quahog, Rhode Island. ...
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Scary Movie 4 is a fourth film of the Scary Movie franchise and is directed by David Zucker, written by Jim Abrahams, Craig Mazin and Pat Proft, and produced by Craig Mazin and Robert K. Weiss. ...
Non-celebrity guests are generally individuals who have been involved in an extraordinary situation. Examples of these include an episode in the fourth season which featured Truddi Chase, a woman with Multiple Personality Disorder who reported being violently and sexually abused beginning at the age of two. After introducing Chase, who was there to promote her book When Rabbit Howls, Oprah unexpectedly broke down in tears whilst reading the teleprompter, relating her own childhood molestation to that of the guest. Unable to control herself, Winfrey repeatedly asked producers to stop filming. Other non-celebrity appearances include guests who are chosen for being particularly un-fashionable and are given a fashion makeover by renowned style advisors Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. Author of When Rabbit Howls (1987), perhaps the first autobiographical account of Multiple Personality Disorder by an individual, rather than by their therapist. ...
Overview In psychiatry, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Multiple Personality Syndrome. ...
Trinny Woodall (born Sarah-Jane Woodall[2] 1964 in London), is an award-winning English fashion guru, fashion and style advisor, television personality, presenter and author. ...
Susannah Constantine, along with Trinny Woodall, is a host of the BBC style series What Not To Wear. ...
Regular segments - Oprah's Book Club
- Originally featured a monthly book highlight, including author interviews. Its popularity caused featured books to shoot to the top of bestseller lists, often increasing sales by as many as a million copies at its peak. It was suspended in 2002 and returned in 2003, now featuring more classic works of literature, with reduced selections per season. The old format was reintroduced in September 2005, but her selection of James Frey's A Million Little Pieces became controversial due to accusations of falsification. January 2006 saw Elie Wiesel's Night selected; Oprah even traveled to Auschwitz with Mr. Wiesel. The most recent selection is A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle.
- What's The Buzz
- Oprah introduces up-and-coming public figures generating industry buzz but not otherwise widely known. In what several media commentators have labelled The Oprah Effect, people appearing on this segment such as Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx and singer James Blunt have benefited from the extra publicity the show brings. Blunt in particular saw album sales increase dramatically and a top two spot on the Billboard 200.
- Remember Your Spirit
- Premiering and most popular during the mid-1990s, recurring guest and self described spiritualist Iyanla Vanzant emphasized the importance of self-affirmation and intrinsic worth.
- Oprah's Favorite Things
- Usually airs during the holiday shopping season or at the beginning of spring. Items personally favored by Winfrey are given away to the audience. Certain episodes of this type feature select groups of people; in 2005's Christmas edition Hurricane Katrina volunteer workers appeared in the audience; in November 2006 opting to hand out credit cards of one-thousand dollars and camcorders to members of her studio audience. who were then told to help others creatively using the money, in what Oprah has since called her favorite giveaway ever.
- Tuesdays With Dr. Phil
- In 1996 Oprah Winfrey hired "Relationship and Life Strategy Expert" Dr. Phil McGraw to prepare her for her trial in Amarillo, Texas in which she was accused of intentionally defaming the U.S. beef industry. Winfrey credited him for her victory in that case and soon after, he made weekly appearances on her show, tackling human issue topics such as weight loss, financial planning and errant children. One episode saw a grieving woman who could not overcome the death of her daughter and revealed that she had planned to kill herself after the show.
- Dr. Phil's Tuesday slots, with running commentary from Oprah herself, quickly became a popular feature and in 2002 he was given his own syndicated daily TV show, produced by Winfrey's Harpo Studios and ending the segments.
Oprahs Book Club is a book club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. ...
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A Million Little Pieces is a partially-fabricated[1] memoir by James Frey. ...
Elie Wiesel (born Eliezer Wiesel on September 30, 1928)[1] is a Hungarian-French-Jewish novelist, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. ...
Night is a work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. ...
Auschwitz (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. ...
Jamie Foxx (born December 13, 1967) is an American actor, singer, and stand-up comic. ...
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, February 22, 1974) is an English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the number one hit Youre Beautiful — brought him to fame in 2005. ...
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Dr. Phil McGraw Dr. Phillip C. McGraw (born September 1, 1950), known popularly as Dr. Phil, is an American television psychologist. ...
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Other famous moments - On December 25, 1986, a frail Liberace made his final public appearance on Oprah, dying six weeks later from AIDS.
- In 1987, Oprah traveled to all-white Forsyth County which had gained a reputation as being a hotbed for racism. It turned out that a majority of the county actually supported racial integration.
- The highest-rated single episode was "The Weight Wagon" airing on November 5, 1988, Oprah wheeled out a wagon containing fat, representing the weight she had lost.
- Oprah was moved to tears by the sight of her fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Mary Duncan, in 1989. She appeared just when Oprah read her name on the teleprompter.
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Wladziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), better known by only his last name Liberace (pronounced [ËŒlɪbəˈrÉ‘Ëtʃi]), was an American entertainer. ...
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Forsyth County is the name of two counties in the United States: Forsyth County, Georgia Forsyth County, North Carolina This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
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Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...
Schematic representation: A teleprompter (also known as an autocue) is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script. ...
Ratings The show averages about 8 million viewers per original airing and about 4.5 million for repeats.
In popular culture - See also: Oprah Winfrey
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Cultural references - On the teenNick show Drake and Josh Oprah is mentioned many times by Josh; he even has an autographed picture and a life-size cardboard cut out. In one episode, Josh accidentally hits Oprah with his car.
- On the Nickelodeon show All That, Oprah and her talk show are lampooned on several occasions -- the program is known as Okrah! therein.
- On The Simpsons, there is a talk show called Opal. However, the real Oprah once "interviewed" Marge Simpson in an especially animated segment.
- On Arthur they have a spoof of The Oprah Winfrey Show thats called Hopping with Koprah.
- The Christian band Casting Crowns mentions Oprah in the song What if His people prayed.
- In the beginning of the film Mrs. Doubtfire, when Robin Williams replaced the cartoon character's voice by saying smokin's a real killer, his boss Louie said that it's a cartoon, not the Oprah Winfrey special.
- When Oprah said she supported Barak Obama, Steven Colbert commented, "Obama is guarranted to win. Nobody can escape Oprah's hive-minded house wife army.
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Criticism While the show is generally revered for its commitment to highlighting international issues, Oprah's detractors accuse her show of having a liberal slant; she has championed such liberal causes as a living wage, and featured left wing filmmaker Michael Moore multiple times on the show.[citation needed] A controversial episode, which aired in 2005 (though originally aired to little apparent notice in October 2003), saw guests discussing the sexual act of "rimming" igniting criticism. The FCC received a proliferation of complaints from angry parents whose children watched the show in an early-evening slot in many television markets. However, most FCC correspondents were prodded to write by Howard Stern, a noteworthy target of the agency, as well as Jimmy Kimmel, in an attempt to expose an FCC double standard.[3][4] Living wage refers to the minimum hourly wage necessary for a person to achieve a basic standard of living. ...
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American political-activist, a film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ...
Anal-oral contact Anal-oral contact, also referred to as anal-oral sex, rimming, or anilingus (from anus and lingua), is a form of oral sex involving contact between the anus or perineum of one person and the mouth of another. ...
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This article is a biography of Howard Stern as an individual; for information regarding his radio show see The Howard Stern Show. ...
James Christian Jimmy Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American comedian, writer, talk show host, game show host, and producer. ...
A double standard, according to the World Book Dictionary, is a standard applied more leniently to one group than to another. ...
YouTube Oprah Winfrey has recently created a YouTube channel, at youtube.com/oprah that showcases some clips of her show and other relevant video features that are pertinent to a show's subject when aired.
See also Oprah After the Show is an unscripted television show that acts as an extended version of The Oprah Winfrey Show. ...
References Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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