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Sara Bibel Lists 10 Reasons Why Daytime TV Won't Be The Same After 2011
By Jillian Bowe on November 30, 2011
In 2011 daytime television had more drama going on behind the scenes than an episode of your favorite soap opera. With ABC axing two iconic soaps, Oprah and Regis Philbin bidding adieu and much more, it makes you wonder what 2012 will bring. Deep Soap's Sara Bibel has published a Top 10 list detailing some of 2011's game changing moments for daytime TV. Here's number five:
5. “One Life To Live” Proves Soaps Can Raise Their Ratings READ MORE
Daytime Stars Participate in QVC Presents Super Saturday Live
By Daytime Confidential on August 01, 2011
Star Jones and Lisa Rinna (pictured above) were among the daytime and former soap stars who popped up at the QVC Presents Super Saturday Live on July 30, at Nova’s Art Project in Water Mill, New York. Live With Regis and Kelly host Kelly Ripa and hubby Mark Consuelos helped promote the benefit supporting the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. Oprah’s gal pal Gayle King also attended the event. See more photos after the jump!
Kim Zimmer Dishes Walking Out on Oprah
By Luke Kerr on July 22, 2011
Kim’s Zimmer’s I’m Just Saying: Three Deaths, Seven Husbands and a Clone, My Life as a Daytime Diva is turning out to be the must read book of the summer and so are her interviews promoting it. TV Guide’s Michael Logan caught up with the One Life to Live and former Guiding Light star, who talked about her book and walking out on Oprah during a commerical break for The Oprah Winfrey Show.
TV Guide Magazine: I love the anecdote about how you got so mad at Oprah when you appeared on her show that you walked out during a commercial break — and then she came running after you and learned a big lesson about how not to treat her guests! Priceless.Zimmer: Yeah, but I watched her last two or three episodes when she ended her show and it was like, "Oh, f--k! Now she's Jesus Christ!" And I'm claiming in the book that she learned something from me! I'm thinking, "Oh, man, her people are gonna come after me!"
Zimmer also didn’t mince words about the end of Guiding Light.
Dr. Oz "Honored" to Take Over Oprah's Time Slots
By Jillian Bowe on July 03, 2011
"I don't feel pressured, I feel honored by the spot. I feel a responsibility to give to the audience what she has done so beautiful for 25 years. You really learn this when you're around her a lot. She recognized people don't change what they do based on what they know. They change on what they feel, when you get that visceral awareness in your heart, it's important to do it. So for me, it's all about getting people to trust the good in me. And that trust is not just because they think you are honorable, it's also because they think you're competent. That marriage creates a trust that folks will follow you to."
Oprah Dreams of O.J. Simpson Confessing to Her
By Luke Kerr on June 16, 2011
There’s at least one interview Oprah still dreams of landing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oprah told an audience at The Cable Show in Chicago that she dreams of O.J. Simpson confessing to her in an interview.
“I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me,” said Winfrey to voluble cheers from the crowd at Chicago’s McCormick Place convention center. "And I am going to make that happen people.”
“I don’t just want the interview,” she continued. “I want the interview on the condition that you are ready, Mr. Simpson.”
Meanwhile, according to The Live Feed, Oprah’s cable channel OWN received a bit of good news. The debut of Finding Sarah, on Sunday, scored solid ratings.
Final Ratings Are in For The Oprah Winfrey Show
By Luke Kerr on June 08, 2011
Day after ratings for The Oprah Winfrey Show had the finale pulling in the most viewers since 1994. Now, the final numbers are in. According to E! Online, Oprah’s final bow earned a stellar 16.4 million viewers. Just how big is that? E! puts the numbers into perspective by comparing them to the Lost finale (12.7 million) and the recent America’s Got Talent premiere (15.3 million).
In other Oprah related news; Deadline is reporting that Anderson Cooper’s talk show Anderson has tapped The Oprah Winfrey Show’s Lisa Morin as an executive producer.
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