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Oprah Takes Final Bow to Run NetworkAfter 25 years, Oprah Winfrey signed off from her top-rated daytime television talk show for the final time Wednesday.
Gwen Ifill discusses Oprah's lasting impact on television and American culture with Audrey Edwards, formerly of Essence Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times' Mary McNamara.

It's hard not to be fascinated by anything that's written about Oprah Winfrey. Kitty Kelley's latest unauthorized biography a term she uses despite discomfort with its connotations of "breaking and entering" goes into as much detail about the Queen of Talk as Kelley's previous books about Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra and the Bush family.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In the tradition of Oprah Winfrey's famous book club, the talk show host's cable channel, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, will launch a documentary film club, with a focus on films with inspirational themes.

OWN has partnered with Ro*co Prods., a division of documentary film distributor Ro*co Films International, to do a primetime monthly documentary film series on the cable channel, a co-venture between Winfrey's Harpo Prods. and Discovery Communications that is scheduled to premiere in January 2011.

She's not called the queen of all media for nothing. The news that after 25 years Oprah Winfrey would be closing up shop on her afternoon talk show-cum-empire-building-exercise broke early, but she made the official announcement of the "real reason she was leaving" her way, and the way guaranteed to garner the most ratings: on her show.

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