An employee at Harpo Productions tells HuffingtonPost.com: “We have no plans this season for a ‘Favorite Things.’”

The show has become a holiday tradition on The Oprah Show, during which the Queen of Talk gives her “favorite things” away to enthusiastic audience members. In 2008, Winfrey gave away only inexpensive or homemade items to coincide with the recession

The hour-long show, which is still-untitled, follows a Santa Monica woman who leaves her perfect nuclear family in to fulfill her secret fantasies and desires in the grimy parts of Los Angeles. The comedy is a part of a three-year development deal between HBO and Harpo inked last December.

“I love this show, this show has been my life,” she said, tears in her eyes. “I love it enough to know when to say goodbye. Twenty five years feels right in my bones and it feels right in my spirit. It’s the perfect number, the exact right time.”

News of Oprah’s departure first broke Thursday evening.

The president of Winfrey’s production company, Harpo, announced in an e-mail that the star would be saying good-bye to daytime.

“I want you all to know that my relationship with you is one I hold very dear,” she said. “And your trust in me and your sharing of your precious time has brought me the greatest joy I have ever known.”

Earlier this month, Winfrey confirmed that she was moving forward with her long-delayed Oprah Winfrey Network, but she’s still giving the show that made her an icon quite a send-off. In Season 25, “we are going to knock your socks off,” she said. “The countdown to the end of `The Oprah Winfrey Show’ starts now.”

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“I don’t think I could be here without her. I think she has blazed a trail,” said Ellen, who added that Oprah phoned her this afternoon to break the news. The ladies bonded after Ellen’s dogged pursuit to get on the cover of O Magazine earlier this year. Her dream finally came true when Oprah invited the star to join her on the holiday-themed December 2009 issue, now on newsstands.

“She will always be the queen of daytime television,” El remarked, before adding, “She also said she is leaving me all of her money.”

Harpo Productions has confirmed that The Queen of Talk has decided to end the groundbreaking Oprah Winfrey Show she has helmed since 1985. Oprah began her broadcasting career in Nashville, Tenn., and Baltimore, Md., before relocating to Chicago in 1984 to host WLS-TV’s morning talk show A.M. Chicago. The show was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show the next year and was nationally-syndicated by 1986.

Oprah will announce news of her departure on Friday. The final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show is scheduled to air in 2011.

“Tomorrow, Oprah will announce live on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ that she has decided to end what is arguably one of the most popular, influential and enduring programs in television history,” Tim Bennett, the President of Harpo, announced in a letter released to ABC affiliates on Thursday. ” The sun will set on the ‘Oprah’ show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011.”

Bennett said he was sending out the letter to keep the affiliates from being surprised at tomorrow’s announcement. And he urged the stations to “share this news this evening with your colleagues and viewers.”

“Before she speaks to her loyal viewers, we wanted to share her decision first with you – our valued partners for more than two decades,” he wrote. “Oprah’s personal comments about this on tomorrow’s live show will mark a historic television moment that we will all be talking about for years to come.”

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Monday’s Oprah, which featured an interview with the former Alaska governor and GOP VP candidate, snagged a 7.2 rating. In fact, the chat yielded O her best ratings in two years.

The Live Feed’s James Hibberd notes that the Nov. 16 episode drew an 8.7 household rating and 13 share, the highest since Oprah hosted the Osmonds in 2007. Palin, seen here with The Queen of Talk and daughters Willow and Piper, is promoting her memoir titled Going Rogue. The Oprah visit came on the heels of a rumor that the media mogul snubbed Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign.

The interior designer, who’s been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show since 2001, is on the verge of inking a deal with O’s Harpo Productions to star in his own syndicated daytime talk show. It’s scheduled to premiere next fall, The New York Times reported this week.

Oprah Winfrey will face a pay cut if she decides to continue doing Oprah through 2011.

The Queen of Talk’s deals with local stations and her CBS TV Distribution deal expire in fall 2011, and, according to Variety, local network aren’t willing to pay as much for the right to air the nearly 25 year old talk show as years past.

“Stations have made it clear to [Winfrey's production company] Harpo that if she does come back, they’ll significantly reduce the license fees they pay,” one exec tells Variety. “Station revenues are down 40 percent to 50 percent, but they’re paying license fees projected on revenue remaining the same. Plus, her ratings are going down. She’s still the queen, but that’s an enormous problem.”

“The campaign said, ‘Right on. Good. You’re showing your independence. This is what America needs to see and it was a good interview.’ And of course I’m thinking, ‘If you thought that was a good interview, I don’t know what a bad interview is because I knew it was a bad interview.’”

Charla Nash will appear on Wednesday’s Oprah to discuss how she’s adjusting to life after her near-death experience and what the future holds for her.

Last Winter, Travis the Chimp went berserk when his owner asked Charla to help lure him back into her house in Stamford, Connecticut. The animal ripped off Charla’s hands, nose, lips and eyelids before being stabbed during the attack. A Connecticut state biologist had warned state officials several years before that Travis was too dangerous to live among humans.