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Rosie Can't Be Oprah, So She Joins O's New Network, along with Tyra Banks, Julia Roberts, Gayle King and more.

Rosie has ankled the plan to be the next Oprah and, instead, has just inked a deal with OWN—Oprah's new cable network—to host a daily talk show. One of Rosie's producers said to the New York Times that OWN offered "the best business proposition" out there for Rosie. As audiences for network daytime talk shows have declined since their heyday in the mid-'90s, perhaps Rosie thinks the best way to reach the niche that is still deeply invested in the confessional genre is through a cable network like Oprah's, one that still bears her hugely influential stamp. Even more to the point, maybe Rosie just realizes that there will never be another Oprah, so it's better to join her than to try to replace her.

Oprah Winfrey's OWN A-List Hosts

While OWN offers a platform for anything-but-ubiquitious documentaries, it also dabbles in a cable TV staple: reality TV. Country crooner Shania Twain stars in "Why Not? With Shania Twain," which will follows her trying to revive her personal and professional life after splitting from her husband, music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange.



Winfrey's BFF, Gayle King, will get top billing on OWN. She'll host "Gayle King Live!," a TV version of her XM Satellite Radio show.


Two OWN shows offer a smorgasbord of stars: "Oprah Presents: Master Class" and "Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind." The first features celebrities dispensing life lessons. Jay-Z, Bono, Toni Morrison, Simon Cowell, Lorne Michaels and Condoleezza Rice are rumored to have signed on. "Visionaries" looks at the minds of modern day artists, including James Cameron, Lady Gaga, and Annie Leibovitz.

Of course, the channel couldn't be complete if Winfrey herself weren't on screen. "Behind the Scenes: The Oprah Show Final Season," is set to begin in January, as the network launches. She'll also host the aptly titled "Oprah's Next Chapter," a one-hour series in which she'll do on-location interviews. New channel, new format, same Oprah.

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