I stole the word OWL from JK Rowling and used it to describe Oprah's school in South Africa, and now Oprah is stealing from me for her own television network. Oh yes, you heard me right. Next year the Discovery Health Network will become OWN - The Oprah Winfrey Network. That's all this world needs is more Oprah. It is going to be all the rage. Every celebrity is going to want their own networks now. D list celebrities will pool their quarters and nickels to get one of their own and other celebrities will buy their own network and just show their movies and television appearances 24 hours a day. William Shatner will be available to host any and all of these networks for one small monthly fee.
I know all of you love Oprah and think she is the greatest person known to mankind. I don't. Oh, I think she does good things for people, even great, but I also don't think she does it for them as much as she does it for ratings. When she busy someone a new home, why does it have to be done on television. When she bought everyone in the audience a new car, why couldn't she have announced it before taping. The car thing is pretty simple. Buick would have been pissed since they were the ones who really made it possible.
Oprah does these things to feed one of the largest egos on the face of the planet. There is nothing wrong with having a huge ego. Most successful people do. The problem is that she is trying to feed her ego by pretending to be something she is not, and that is what I don't like. I am not the world's foremost expert on women's television networks, but I think there is at least Lifetime and Oxygen. Is there really a need for another network that is going to be exactly similar? More made for television films and Oprah, Oprah Oprah 24 hours a day. I imagine they will show each and every Oprah episode repeatedly. The ticker at the bottom of the screen will let you know exactly what or who Oprah is doing at any given point. I don't need to see Oprah sleeping, or Oprah eating running across the bottom of my screen 24 hours a day. Four hours daily will be devoted to Dr. Phil and another four hours to Rachael Ray. 30 minutes will be given to Rachael Ray's husband for the deviant sex questions of the day show which will run late night, right after the How To Open Your Own School infomercial