Has Oprah become irrelevant?

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Where does she go after the Oprah Winfrey Network debacle?

[lucyandethel]

Hopefully far far away and takes her legions of zombie-like friends with her

[TV Knowledge Fan]

Oprah who?

;)


:tv:

[CrazyRalph]

:uplol:

[Brad]

There are many people who, for whatever reason, love to hate Oprah Winfrey no matter what. I'm not one of them. While I wouldn't consider myself a die-hard fan, I admire and respect what she's been able to accomplish in the past 25 years and don't understand why there's such venomous hatred for anything and everything Oprah.

That having been said, starting OWN was a terrible career move. Ms. Winfrey immediately went from having the highest-rated syndicated talk show in a highly visible timeslot (in most markets, anyway) to being on a cable channel that most people have no idea how to find. I think she should have stuck with her talk show. Why ruin a good thing?

[Big3sCompanyFan]

There are many people who, for whatever reason, love to hate Oprah Winfrey no matter what. I'm not one of them. While I wouldn't consider myself a die-hard fan, I admire and respect what she's been able to accomplish in the past 25 years and don't understand why there's such venomous hatred for anything and everything Oprah.

That having been said, starting OWN was a terrible career move. Ms. Winfrey immediately went from having the highest-rated syndicated talk show in a highly visible timeslot (in most markets, anyway) to being on a cable channel that most people have no idea how to find. I think she should have stuck with her talk show. Why ruin a good thing?

Because after 25 years some of the topics were getting incredibly stupid and cheesy and she knew it!

It's not like Jay Leno hosting the Tonight Show where the guest really drives the show after the monologue and skit.

Oprah needed to find new topics to talk about EVERY SINGLE DAY and some topics were just horrible and showed how desperate they were!

[GoldenGirlsFan92]

Ya she kidnda has

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Without a daily talk show, Oprah is straining to find a new audience for her cable and magazine empire, seeking specifically for younger viewers.

[catlover79]

To me, she's always been irrelevant!!!

[Big3sCompanyFan]

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Without a daily talk show, Oprah is straining to find a new audience for her cable and magazine empire, seeking specifically for younger viewers.

It's gotten tougher but no one will feel sorry for a billionaire like O!

[Retro4Life]

While I have always admired Oprah's ability to rise from her surroundings and to succeed in such a monumental way against great odds, I have also always been very uncomfortable with this phenomenon of treating her like some sort of Oracle of Truth. She's a human being like anyone else, and really her opinion has no more or less weight than anyone's; she's just lucky enough to have had a forum by which to spread her views and an adoring public that seems to take her every word as gospel, her every act as charity personified.

Is she irrelevant? Not to her millions of acolytes, certainly. To me? Yeah, pretty much.

[I'm Batman]

she really never was actually

[Big3sCompanyFan]

She has some good shows on her channel but isn't getting nearly the ratings she used to but O is the last one to feel sorry for!

[catsrule]

Oprah has always been irrelevant to me. I would gladly have her network removed and replaced with Me-TV on my cable.

[Steve_uk]

I remember the Oprah Winfrey Show which appeared on British screens on a minority channel in the late 1980s. It was fresh and topical,as well as being one of the first black women I knew who was smart and could hold her own amongst anyone. One added attraction sorry to say was to see how much weight she kept putting on week after week in those early days;now fortunately she has taken it off again.It was the first show I recall which ended with the title music encroaching on the final words of a guest which I always found rather rude,maybe redolent of the faster pace of life in the 1980s.

I wish Oprah well and wonder whether her skills could not be used in the political arena rather than the talk show format whose success is often more dependent on the calibre of the guest than the host herself.