'O' No, say it ain't so!

Prepare yourselves ladies (and men too ashamed to admit it) but you will soon have to find a new talk show to glue yourself to during the afternoon.


That's right, after more than 2 decades on the air, Oprah is set to announce to her audience tomorrow that she will be ending the show.


Although this may come as a shock, don't fret yet as she is only expected to be announcing the termination of the show on tomorrow's program. Rumours are that the cameras won't stop rolling until sometime in September 2011, at the end of her 25th year of the show.


Nobody is certain why the boss would want to stop the Oprah Winfrey Show, which has become a media institution in the US, with an average of 7 million viewers tuning in each day. The open atmosphere and frank conversation has defined the talk show genre and has also made Oprah the wealthiest black woman in the world.


But the Winfrey empire isn't about to collapse. Oprah still has her hand in several pies with her magazine production, and radio show. She is also scheduled to launch a television network, OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network sometime in 2011 which will focus on issues such as money, health and relationships.


The closing of the Oprah Show will upset many for sure but will also lead to greater recognition for the funniest, and in our own opinion, best talk show on television today, The Ellen Degeneres Show.