Oprah's TV Pilot Deal With HBO

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.