Ask Oprah’s All-Stars

Ask Oprah’s All-Stars was aired last January 16, 2011 at OWN TV. This episode includes Dr. Phil, Suze Orman and Dr. Mehmet Oz as casts.

For the first time, Oprah’s All Stars — Dr. Phil, Suze Orman, and Dr. Mehmet Oz — will appear on one stage to answer viewers? pressing questions about health, wealth, and mental well-being.

I don’t know how you spent your first few days of 2011, but I was immersed — or perhaps baptized is a better word — in the launch of OWN, which isn’t just another cable channel. The Oprah Winfrey Network is a crusade, on a mission of unyielding and unapologetic uplift, inviting us into an electronic big-tent revival where each weepy show should come with its own supply of Kleenex and where all of Oprah’s ambassadors stay relentlessly on message. That message, conveyed by Oprah Winfrey herself in an oft-repeated introductory hour, is to deliver “the kind of TV that wouldn’t waste your time,” that urges each viewer to “live your best life.”

The most entertaining and highest-rated show in OWN’s first days was, no surprise, the show that featured the most Oprah: Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, a fascinating peek inside the control room and behind the curtain of The Oprah Winfrey Show’semotionally exhausting (to its staff, at least) final season. A scrumptious bonbon for the Oprah fan and for anyone who loves TV, the show lets us gape at Oprah’s plush offices as her eager and anxious producers pitch ideas to the Queen of TV, then frantically go about executing their concepts and her vision. (Season 25 airs a new episode Friday night, and is joined by the premiere of Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star, a reality competition in which the winner gets to host a show on OWN in the future.)

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