"The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection." (Paramount Home Video)
Oprah Winfrey today announced her daytime talk show would end on Sept. 9, 2011.
In the list of daytime talk show hosts, she has been the most successful, but it hasn't come without a lot of bumps. She started out as another talk show on the daytime roster. But when her show become a "feel good" show, it took off.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show: 20th Anniversary Collection," a six-disc set, features many of those moments that made the show unique. Included is the famous couch-jumping moments of Tom Cruise, and interviews with John F. Kennedy Jr., Nelson Mandela, Maria Shriver, Paul McCartney and John Travolta, the show after the O.J. Simpson verdict, Robin Williams, Britney Spears, her long struggle with weight, reaction to the Sept. 11 attacks, working at McDonald's and Tom Hanks.
Even the name of her production company, Harpo, was a testament to Oprah's spirit.
Winfrey's show may be going away, but she won't be. She'll start the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on cable in 2011.
"Fifteen years ago, I wrote in my journal that one day I would create a television network, as I always felt my show was just the beginning of what the future could hold," said Oprah Winfrey, in the statement announcing the new network. "For me, the launch of The Oprah Winfrey Network is the evolution of the work I've been doing on television all these years and a natural extension of my show."
The next chapter will begin in 2011.
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