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Rosie returning to daytime TV

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Rosie O’Donnell — the one-time “Queen of Nice” on daytime TV — is returning to host her own daily talk show again in 2011. Only this time, she’s working for her biggest rival from back in the day.

Oprah Winfrey has hired Rosie to host a daily chat program on OWN — the Oprah Winfrey Network — which premieres in January. The hour-long show will be filmed in New York, and OWN describes it as “a fun, uplifting show with Ms. O’Donnell‘s playful and energetic style.” (Which translates as: they haven’t decided on the format of the show yet.)

It’s unknown if Rosie’s show will debut in January or sometime later in the year. The show is currently untitled.

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.