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Oprah Gets Real
Apparently, there just aren't enough hours in the day for Oprah Winfrey to get all her giving done.
As a result, the Queen of Daytime is expanding her realm into prime time, with two new reality series for ABC, tentatively titled Oprah Winfrey's The Big Give and Your Money or Your Life.
The shows are the first projects from the TV development group recently formed by Winfrey's Harpo Productions.
In the first series, 10 contestants will be given a sum of money and various resources and challenged to come up with the most creative way to increase their finances and use the cash to help others.
One contestant will be eliminated each week of the eight-episode series. The last contestant standing will have their wildest wish granted in return for making the biggest impact.
The second series will take a page out of Extreme Makeover's book, with each episode featuring a family in crisis and needing to make immediate changes or face disaster.
Enter Winfrey's crack team of experts, who will swoop in and help the family make the decisions necessary to turn their lives around.
Winfrey will appear in at least one of the series, but it's unclear whether she'll host. Unsurprisingly, neither series will involve any of the vindictive or humiliating antics common to the reality TV genre.
"Oprah Winfrey getting into series TV is monumental," ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson said in a statement. "These two shows are a perfect fit for our alternative brand, with their focus on wish fulfillment and making lives better."
Generosity is nothing new for the talk-show host, whose previous giveaways have included gifting each member of her studio audience with a car and financing a million-dollar wedding for a lucky couple.
In a recent episode, Winfrey gave each member of her audience a $1,000 gift card, then challenged them to find dramatic ways to help as many people as possible with the money.
Earlier this year, she was named one of the top celebrity philanthropists by Forbes magazine, which reported she doled out $52 million to charitable causes in 2005 alone.
Winfrey's commitment to altruism is reportedly making things difficult for her unauthorized biographer Kitty Kelley, who has selected the TV icon as her next target.
Though she's reportedly been digging for dirt on Winfrey for two months, Kelley told the Washington Post she has yet to come up with anything negative on the host.
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