The Oprah Winfrey Show

Television series
Original title	The Oprah Winfrey Show
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	1986-2011
Production ; company	Harpo Productions
length	45 minutes
Broadcasting ; cycle	EN: three times a week Sun 5:15 p.m.; Tue 9:45 p.m.; Fri 9:35 p.m. on sixx ;
genre	Talk show
Moderation	Oprah Winfrey
German-language ; first broadcast	1995 on tm3

The Oprah Winfrey Show , often just called Oprah or O for short , was an American talk show .

The Oprah Winfrey Show was named after its presenter Oprah Winfrey and was produced by their company "HARPO" (the name Oprah read backwards). It was by far the most successful talk show in American television history. It ran since September 8, 1986 and, at 25 years old and over 4,500 episodes, is the longest-running talk show in the United States. The show had up to 20 million viewers daily in the United States and was broadcast in over 130 countries. In Germany that sent Free TV transmitter sixx the The Oprah Winfrey Show with German subtitles .

On November 20, 2009, Oprah Winfrey announced that she would quit her talk show in 2011, with the last show on May 25, 2011.

Programs (selection)

In addition to unknown guests with special stories and experiences , many well-known personalities in the United States, such as politicians and stars from film and television, appeared on the show. The following appearances are among the special show moments of the Oprah Winfrey Show:

Oprah Winfrey

The well-known entertainer Liberace had his last television appearance here in December 1986, shortly before his death, in which he was already severely affected by his AIDS disease.
Here, survivors of the Little Rock Nine met former classmates whom they had previously discriminated against.
In 1993 Michael Jackson had one of his highly regarded rare appearances with almost 37 million viewers, in which he a. a. reported for the first time on his skin disease Vitiligo .
On a 1995 show, Winfrey confessed to previous drug use due to relationship problems.
In November 1996 talked Prince and his then wife Mayte Garcia about her son, but concealed that this had died shortly after birth in October 1996th
In a 2003 program, Jacqueline Saburido , a victim of a traffic accident due to drink-driving, told her story and met the mother of the convicted person who had caused the accident. Oprah Winfrey declared Saburido to be one of the dearest guests of her long career, as she shines with inner beauty despite her difficult fate and her disfigured face.
Tom Cruise confessed in a 2005 appearance in which he a. a. bouncing around on the sofa and sliding around on his knees, his love for Katie Holmes . The performance was voted Most Surprising Television Moment 2005 in the United States .
Kate and Gerry McCann were guests on the show in 2009 to ask the public for help and information about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann , their daughter.

Studio building of the Oprah Winfrey Show: "Harpo" is an ananym of the first name "Oprah".

In several programs, Winfrey presented the audience present with expensive items in the current program. In a show in 2004, for example, she gave away 276 new cars, one to each viewer in the audience.

criticism

The Oprah Winfrey Show and Oprah Winfrey have also received frequent criticism. So her z. B. accused of not always dealing responsibly with their popularity and the media power of their show. The Washington Post accused her of treating her political guests too uncritically. It was also criticized that she did not always critically treat books that she presented in her Oprah Book Club programs and that then regularly became bestsellers.