The Oprah Winfrey Phenomenom
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American nationally
syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey
and is the highest-rated talk show in American television
history.
It is the longest-running daytime television
talk show in the United States, with 20 seasons - currently
in its 21st season - and thousands of episodes since it debuted
on September 8, 1986. The show has now been renewed for a
twenty-fifth season, which will be broadcast in 2011.
Oprah, as it is often referred to, has been
included in Time magazine's shortlist of the best television
series of the twentieth century in 1998, and it made the top
50 of TV Guide's countdown of the greatest shows of all time
[2] in 2002.
The show is highly influential, especially upon
women, and many of its topics penetrate into American pop-cultural
consciousness. While early episodes of show followed a Phil
Donahue-style exploration of sensationalistic social issues,
Oprah eventually transformed her series into a more positive,
spiritually uplifting experience marked by book clubs, celebrity
interviews, self-improvement segments, and philanthropic forays
into world events.
More
on The Oprah Winfrey Show at the Official Web Site
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