OWN Sets Summer Primetime Schedule

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• Lives on Fire
  Million Dollar Neighborhood
  Real Life: The Musical
  Are You Normal America

  Please, choose a show title which would motive you to tune in. Who is the audience? No one I know.

  Comment by FTCS — Friday April 27, 2012 @ 11:41am PDT  Reply to this post

• Hopefully these new shows will be the charm that OWN needs as the Discovery’s funding clock is ticking towards half-billion dollars. Ironically, OWN’s shows “with” Oprah are failing to measurably move the needle considering Winfrey was TV’s most bankable star.

  It’s been a tough month for Oprah’s signature shows.

  First, Oprah’s primetime interview show “Next Chapter” with Gloria Steinem pulls in one of the lowest ratings in the past two months with 382,000 viewers earlier in April. Second, Oprah’s live “LifeClass” two-hour series, the show that Oprah said last month is “the reason I did the network,” struggles with 211,000 viewers last Monday evening & 208,000 a week earlier.

  Both shows are below OWN’s ratings for non-Oprah hosted Sweetie Pies & Beverly’s Full House first-run shows on Saturday night.

  This has to be a humbling experience for Winfrey. One year she’s reaching 6 million viewers a day with one show in daytime syndication, and the next year struggling to get 600,000 with two shows on your own network. One could say that OWN’s hard to find, but then 3.5 million viewers found Oprah’s interview with Whitney Houston’s daughter last month on OWN. They just chose not to come back the next week.

  Comment by Mickie — Friday April 27, 2012 @ 11:48am PDT  Reply to this post

  • And none of those billions are of her own wealth and finances…she’s siphoning through Discovery as if it was going out of style and yet, produces shoddy programming to boot.

    Comment by Jed — Friday April 27, 2012 @ 5:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why bother? Take the vacation!

  Comment by rocketeuropa — Friday April 27, 2012 @ 4:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What the hell is Real Life: The Musical?

  Comment by WriteBroad — Friday April 27, 2012 @ 4:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why even bother coming out with a summer slate of programs which nobody will even bother watching anytime soon, then seeing the ratings plummet even more before Discovery wakes up and finally pulls the plug on this crapfest of a network in the fall or by year’s end.

  Comment by Zeke — Friday April 27, 2012 @ 5:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• OPRAH
  Dear you have hired the wrong people, word is out NO ONE wants to be at OWN

  Why would you not plan this out better? A network is different than getting bookers to produce The Oprah Show – that is an easy task.
  You have hired the wrong people who are asking talented people to jump through hoops and then the budgets are sinful – why dont YOU donate to your own network – NOW that is a GOOD CAUSE

  Horrible shows, boring and none of the good folks in town want to work there- sorry but that is the reality

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday April 27, 2012 @ 6:53pm PDT  Reply to this post