In the end, it was only “Oprah & ‘The Ugly Cry…’”
Oprah Winfrey hung up her microphone as the undisputed Queen of Talk on Wednesday, wrapping up her nationally-syndicated Oprah Winfrey Show after 25 seasons. And what a send-off it was. Preliminary figures show yesterday’s finale scored O her biggest audience in 17 years. The episode delivered a 13.3 household rating in the nation’s metered markets, The Nielsen Co. said Thursday. Oprah hasn’t seen an audience that big since Feb. 1994. That’s when an episode called “People Shed Their Disguises” got a 13.4 rating.
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Drumroll, please… The final guest on the very last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show is…well…no one.
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Oprah Winfrey taped The Oprah Winfrey Show special “Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular” at the United Center in Chicago on Tuesday night. Madonna, Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s estranged wife Maria Shriver were among the stars at the taping of Oprah Winfrey’s final episodes as the Queen of Talk. The world will be a colder, bleaker place when Oprah’s long-running talk show finishes for good at the end of the month — at least according to her mourning super-fans.
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What’s next for The Queen of Daytime now that the sun is setting on The Oprah Winfrey Show after 25 seasons? How about a turn on The Great White Way?!
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Saved by the Oprah! On Wednesdy, a judge in Illinois granted an unusual request when he permitted a juror to be excused to attend the final taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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