Oprah's Big Mistake With her new Channel OWN

 So, let's just get it out of the way: Yes, I am an Oprah fan. I don't care how silly or senitmental or roll-your-eyes at her new-agey, law of attraction, hippie-dippy sorta expositions you agree or disagree with. The woman has done more to promote literacy and living a life filled with less (bullshit)stuff and more meaning than anyone I can think of, EVER. She's made her own money and way, not by fucking some rich man, or scheming or selling black women European beauty: She's made it by showing the world who she is, and if you can't at least respect that, then you suck. Simple as that.
  Now that that is out of the way, more has to be said. Her new channel, OWN is faultering and here's why: pepolel love Oprah because of her generosity, honesty and openness. People want to be a part of what and who she is, but not actually BE her......To explain: people want the free yoga mats and delicious healthy foods she hands out on the show, but they don't want or have the motivation to go out and do the work it takes to come to the conclusions that those things would acutally be healthy for them. OWN has some quality programming, some of which was incredible, like the "Master Class" series, but a lot of it was fluff: following around celebrities we no longer care about, and trying to re-invent celebrities that have been controversial in the past.

   And it's a shame: she had an eye for Dr. Phil, Suze Orman, and Nate Berkus and others, why didn't they come to her network or why couldn't she scour the country to find others like them? She's got her own studio and there are tons of undervalued writers and playrights and actors out there (espeically black ones) that have virtually no other avenues, why not invite them to write original material, give people a chance who wouldn't normally have one, and see what sticks? If the Lifetime network can use the same "woman is wronged, woman gets revenge" formula for just about every single movie every single weekend, and STILL maintain a strong woman viewership, I don't see why Oprah couldn't do something similiar, but with a mroe experimental feel.
  I was never for Oprah leaving her show and ending it, I thought it was a bad idea, but I also saw the opportunity for something new and quality to finally be presented on tv. I was sorely disappointed with what she did come up with.....who the hell was/is her audience with that programming? The programming seemed like it was trying to please too many people, all at once. Why not stick to the midwestern housewives who've been her staple audience since forever and do dieting shows, inspirational shows, cooking shows, makeover shows, and a few innovative and spiritual shows thrown in, for good measure? She reads so much and buys book rights in a minute, there's tons of books out there she could buy the rights to and have made into a movie in a matter of weeks, wonderous stories people have never even heard of.
 (Personally, I'd be excited to see the budget she could put behind a good sci-fi/fantasy production because let's face it, the SyFy networks sucks super hard and has left fans of that genre, like moi, itching for our next fix which looks like the next best thing is going to be "Snow White and the Huntsman" only ruined by the amount of violence that seems to have been added just to attract a wider audience. NOTE TO STUDIOS: adding more violence in the place of wonder, adventure, excitement, true heroism, magic, bravery, breath-taking imagined places and incredible costumes, is a fucking cop-out move that doesn't fool us folks who truly love the fantasy genre and aren't mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging 6-pack chugging neaderthanls waiting for some blood to spurt from someone's orifice in order to keep our attention on the plot that is being developed.)

  The network may work out the kinks, but I still have faith that Oprah will bring us something amazing and hopefully revolutionary, the likes of which we'e never seen before in network television as more and more of us are tuning out and tuning into free, super creative and oringial web content.