J.K. Rowling “Oprah” Debut This Friday

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will make her first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show this Friday, Oct. 1.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will make her first appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show this Friday, Oct. 1.


Judge Judy has scored a ratings verdict over The Queen of Talk.
The sharp-tongued jurist defeated Oprah in the ratings last season to become the number one series in daytime, Yahoo! News said Friday.

Oprah Winfrey is O — No, really.
The Queen of Talk is lending her famous voice to Sesame Street for the first time in her 35 years in broadcasting. Winfrey will drop in as the voice of the animated letter “O” — who interviews guests such as “Otto the Orangutan” and “Ophelia the Octopus” — in a parody of her longrunning daytime talk show when Sesame Street Season 41 premieres on Public Television Monday, Sept. 27.
Oprah Winfrey has another shock in store for the 300 fans she surprised earlier this week with tickets for an all-inclusive trip to Australia – she’s not paying for the vacation. The Queen of Talk’s offer to take her staff and 300 audience members Down Under will cost Tourism Australia about $2.7 million, Sydney’s The Age said Tuesday.


Oprah — whose joint venture with Discovery launches with the creation of The Oprah Winfrey Network early next year — has landed the first television interview with the three hostages held at gunpoint inside Discovery Channel headquarters in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland two weeks ago.