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...wide public support former French hero Zinedine Zidane received following his infamous head-butting incident with an Italian opponent during the 2006 World Cup final. Perhaps this is the reason Henry himself finally stepped up with a near mea culpa. In a statement sent to the British TV channel Sky Sports, Henry broke his silence since his postmatch admission that he had handled the ball, acknowledging that "the fairest solution would be to replay the game." He insisted that the use of his hand during the game was "an instinctive reaction" and defended his previously irreproachable reputation by saying...
...book authors whose work she championed - the final air date of Sept. 9, 2011 is all too soon. But given what Oprah wants to do next, it might be too late. She's leaving network TV to focus on creating OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a new cable channel that she's launching with Discovery Communications. She announced the venture almost two years ago but it will not start airing until January...
...other daytime programs, but it means that she is not immune from the woes that plague lesser TV mortals. Without that big reliable pulpit in the public marketplace, how much power does Oprah wield? Does she have enough juice to convert most of her viewers to a cable channel? To develop a following for new Dr. Phils? To get Tom Cruise to jump on her couch again...
Well, one reason is that starting a cable channel is hard. She already tried it once with Oxygen, now owned by NBC, and home to many reality shows that feature Janice Dickinson or have names that smack of ratings desperation like The Naughty Kitchen and Bad Girls Club. OWN, says Oprah, will reflect her "vision, values and interests." (Which Oxygen never quite did.) (See the top 10 skanky reality shows...
...clearly the only way she can bring any attention of the non-Naughty Kitchen kind to the new cable channel will be if she's actually on the screen. While nobody's saying whether she'll have a talk show, Oprah has confirmed she will "appear on and participate in" programs on OWN. Instead of taking their Oprah straight up for an hour a day, it seems viewers are going to get a taste of her everywhere. Ben Silverman, the former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and now CEO of new media firm Electus, is buying. "Her willingness to migrate...