Oprah Ditches Daytime for New Evening Show

The Queen of daytime television is planning an evening show. Oprah Winfrey will announce today her plan to launch a new show called Oprah's Next Chapter on her cable network. The hour-long series, to debut next year, will take Oprah out of the studio and around the world. "I'm going to take viewers with me, going to take celebrities I want to interview with me," she tells the Wall Street Journal.

The Oprah Winfrey network (OWN) will have to convince advertisers to come along too. Her number are down from 10 million in the 1990s to 6.7 million viewers so far this season, the Journal notes. But Winfrey says she's fully invested in her new enterprise. "I am hands on, digging in there, looking through every tape," she says. "I'm not just up to my knees. I'm up to my thighs." Miss her already? Click here for the 9 best Oprah moments.
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