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Five new shows announced for Oprah’s OWN network

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Oprah Winfrey has timed the launch of her new TV channel, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, for Jan. 1 -- perfect to tap into all those new year’s resolutions and the wishful thinking that comes with the start of a new year.

The network on Thursday announced five new original series in addition to 10 announced previously. Along with Oprah’s own new one-hour show, ‘Oprah’s Next Chapter,’ OWN will bring Oprah BFF Gayle King’s radio program to TV with the daily talk show ‘Gayle King Live!’

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Not surprisingly, the network has its share of inspiring fare, such as ‘Visionaries: Inside the Creative Mind,’ a weekly glimpse inside the artistic processes of figures such as James Cameron, Lady Gaga and Tom Ford, as well as ‘Why Not? with Shania Twain,’ a one-hour series about the singer’s life after the breakup of her marriage. Oprah also jumps full-on into the reality genre with ‘Your Own Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star,’ for which OWN is teaming up with Mark Burnett.

Previously announced OWN series include ‘Oprah Presents: Master Class,’ in which Oprah chooses a slate of big names (Jay-Z, Simon Cowell, Bono and Condoleezza Rice among them) to offer some life lessons; a female-prison show called ‘Breaking Down the Bars’; ‘Enough Already’ featuring decluttering expert Peter Walsh; a sex and relationship series, ‘In the Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman’; and ‘The Miracle Detectives,’ which pits a skeptic and a believer against each other in an exploration of an amazing event.

As a way to say goodbye to her current talk show, the network will also air ‘Behind the Scenes: The Oprah Show Final Season.’

-- Joy Press

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