Oprah Prepping Dr. Oz For Talk Show In '09

Broadcasting & Cable:

Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions is developing a talk show featuring Dr. Mehmet Oz for an expected fall-2009 launch, sources confirmed.

Winfrey and her team met with potential distributors last month in Chicago, following the same thorough development process Harpo underwent when launching The Oprah Winfrey Show spinoff Dr. Phil in 2002.

Oprah, Dr. Phil and Rachael Ray, Oprah's second spinoff, are all distributed by CBS Television Distribution. In 2000, CBS acquired King World Productions, the original distributor of all three shows, although CBS didn't absorb King World until 2006.

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Comments

[Mollye]

11:47 PM on 04/09/2008

Oprah who?

[raker]

04:07 PM on 04/09/2008

I predict: Season 1 will be about losing weight, reducing the size of your omentum, how to avoid getting shpilkes in your gonektigazoink. By season 3, it will be baby-daddy test results.

[AnninCA]

03:42 PM on 04/09/2008

Who cares?

She's losing viewers to Ellen.

Why?

Because of her obvious misuse of her audience share.

Bye,Bye Oprah!

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

01:14 PM on 04/09/2008

Wow. i never saw that coming. Dr. Oz being promoted by you-know-who? Smack me with a board. Nope. Never saw it. Not me. Wow.

[Izadora]

01:01 PM on 04/09/2008

Fantastic idea.....Dr. 0z is wonderful. I really enjoy watch when he is on. Congrat to Dr OZ.

[revko]

11:21 AM on 04/09/2008

Wow
Oprah produces another new show hosted by another rich white guy
Yikes

[NoSillyName]

10:49 AM on 04/09/2008

Oprah, the Empire Builder, strikes again? Hasn't she polluted the airwaves enough already? What the heck is that in the picture? Chicken skin?

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

01:16 PM on 04/09/2008

In the picture? They're making pizza. Badly.

[MadeinAmericaProud]

02:42 PM on 04/09/2008

Opus is Under the Bed and cannot see the TV. At least the Oprah show when Dr. OZ is on.

He a medical doctor not a cooking doctor. He is introducing internal parts of the body. Not making pizza.

This is America go off uninformed. I would like to think NoSillyName was asking a valid question. To answer with an asinine answer only put a spot light on your integrity. You don't have any.

[NoSillyName]

04:02 PM on 04/09/2008

Thanks for the info! You just made me laugh loudly. I didn't "read more", so I had no idea what that substance was.