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4 Richest Female Talk Show Hosts on U.S. Television

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Talks shows on television attract a wide audience worldwide. Those hosted by just one witty individual, whether male or female, normally gain a lot of viewers. And so American TV, for example, has produced quite a number of popular talk show hosts who have also made millions of dollars. These include Larry King, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Rachel Ray and Ellen DeGeneres, among others.

These talk show hosts earn big and became millionaires through time. To date, many female hosts have invaded the boob tube. Their common characteristics? They’re witty, bubbly and have a gift of gab that can hook the audience to every word that comes from their mouth. And they’re just so good in entertaining their guests whatever age they may be. [Read more…]

Oprah announces her Next Chapter

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To the surprise of no one at all, Oprah Winfrey isn’t leaving television when her daily talk show ends next year.

Instead, she’ll be redirecting her efforts 100% towards her new cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network, where she’ll produce and appear on a number of original shows. She’ll be hosting her own new OWN show, entitled Oprah’s Next Chapter, which finds her traveling around the world to faraway places like Egypt and China to have “more riveting conversations with the people we all want to hear from.” Next Chapter is expected to be an hour-long show, airing 2 or 3 times a week in prime time.

Oprah will also be a part of Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star, where she’ll serve as a judge on an American Idol-type search for the next great talk show host.

The rest of OWN’s roster is made up of shows seemingly tailored around Oprah’s personal friends and the top names on her rolodex, such as Gail King, Lisa Ling, Shania Twain, and more.

Anybody else remember that interview she did with Jay Leno after all the Leno/Conan hubbub, where he was certain she would keep doing a show of some kind, even after The Oprah Winfrey Show ends, and she swore up and down that she wasn’t doing another talk show? I’m not a big Leno fan, but it looks like he was spot-on about Oprah.

Oprah to Say Bye in 2011: What will happen to daytime TV?

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oprah winfreyOprah isn’t set to say goodbye till September of next year but everyone’s already wondering who will inherit her throne in daytime TV. Maybe Geraldo’s time has finally come (*snort*)!

Seriously though, Scott Collins of LA Times says that the most likely contenders for the slot will be “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “The Dr. Oz Show”. Of course, Dr. Phil might get it considering his on #2 spot in terms of viewership and like Oprah “made” him. Dr. Oz though is also doing really great considering that the show is but a year old, and like Dr. Phil, Oprah also made it. However, if Ellen decides to launch a campaign, like she did with the George Clooney where his poor staff got continuously harassed till he appeared on the “Ellen” or like when she wanted to be on the cover of “O Magazine”, maybe the TV execs will get pestered enough to cave in and give it to her.

Whatever happens though the question is likely moot because daytime TV hasn’t been the same for a long time and with Oprah gone, probably never will. As Steve Farella of TargetCast, an ad-firm, said, “Daytime TV as supplied by the networks is really all but dead. [But] It’s not because the talent isn’t there. It’s because the business isn’t there anymore.”

As for me I truthfully don’t care much who takes the slot because I can just watch reruns of Oprah on the Sezmi (Hopefully the service will be good and they’ll be everywhere by 2011!).

Tom Cruise guests on Oprah

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Tom Cruise will be returning to Oprah. Hopefully, this time he won’t be jumping up and down the sofa. The episode will be celebrating his career from that first breakthrough performance in “Risky Business.”

Oprah talks to pregnant man

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Oprah secured the exclusive interview with the world’s
first pregnant man

Thomas Beatie, a transgender male, announced that he and his wife Nancy (who is unable to bear children because of a hysterectomy) were expecting their child this summer. “I’m a person and I have the right to have my own biological child.”

Beatie refuses to get into a metaphysical or psychological debate of whether or not his decision changes his identity as a man. “I see pregnancy as a process and it doesn’t define who I am. Ironically, being pregnant doesn’t make me feel any more female or feminine.”