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Oprah's TV Pilot Deal With HBO

In Celebs by Kristine Gasbarre , on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 3:22 AM (PST)
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We told you Oprah Winfrey wouldn't disappear.

Oprah rocked the nation last week when she announced that she'll pull the plug on The Oprah Winfrey Show in September 2011. We had a hunch Ms. Winfrey had some things in the works, and it's confirmed. In addition to the official plans for the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) to launch in 2011, a report emerged on Monday that Oprah and HBO are teaming up.

This may be a TV marriage stranger than Khloe Kardashian's, but it sounds like it could work. Oprah's studio Harpo and HBO are planning a pilot for an hour-long series on a woman who one day up and leaves her husband and children to pursue her dreams. The plot seems a little Desperate Housewives and left-field -- her family thinks she's been kidnapped? -- but with Harpo and HBO at the helm we can be pretty sure it'll fly.

Here's what president of HBO Sue Naegle had to offer: "[The show] is unsentimental and pretty shocking, and there is something complicated and destructive driving her ... It is literally a day at the pool, where she gets up, in sarong and flip-flops, and walks out of her life, leaving everyone behind so abruptly that her husband and kids initially think she's been kidnapped or murdered."

Mysterious...and even more eyebrow-raising is the fact that the writer for the James Spader/Maggie Gyllenhaal S&M drama Secretary will pen the pilot. Stay with LimeLife for updates.

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