Psst: An Uh-O! from Oprah

Last update: November 8, 2009 - 6:31 PM

AN UH-O! FROM OPRAH

Mr. Favre, meet Ms. Winfrey. You might have something in common.

Oprah Winfrey, above, has entered into full "will she or won't she?" mode after a Hollywood gossip site, DeadlineHollywood Daily.com, reported last week that Winfrey will move her syndicated talk show from CBS to her own long-postponed cable network OWN by 2011. (That's Oprah Winfrey Network, in case you were puzzled. No? Ah.)

A move would also mean good-bye Chicago, hello Tinseltown.

The report apparently caught CBS by surprise. "Nothing has changed," a spokesman told the New York Daily News.

OWN is in partnership with the Discovery Health channel, which, according to reports, demanded that Winfrey move her talk show to OWN, or risk losing her brainchild altogether.

Gutsy move, threatening Oprah Winfrey.

"She has not made a decision yet," said a Winfrey spokesman.

Industry gossip is that Winfrey might want to keep her daytime show, since OWN currently is just an idea, and there's no guarantee that the millions of viewers will follow her to cable. Howard Stern, anyone?

For now, she's playing it cool. Her people say she'll make some sort of announcement by year's end.

As they say in show business, as in football, stay tuned.

KIM ODE