Oprah Coming Into Her "OWN"
ROMANS: All right. Welcome back to AMERICAN MORNING. Good morning, everyone. Oprah is making good on her New Year's resolution. The Queen of Talk launches OWN - new Oprah Winfrey Network tomorrow.</s>JOHNS: It's supposed to be chock-full of series and shows hand- picked and created by Oprah herself. A preview from CNN entertainment correspondent Kareen Wynter.</s>KAREEN WYNTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: Joe and Christine, good morning. The final countdown, it's officially underway. No, not just to New Year's, but to the day millions of Oprah Winfrey fans have been waiting for - the launch of her very own cable TV network.</s>OPRAH WINFREY, TELEVISION PERSONALITY AND ICON: It all begins here.</s>WYNTER (voice-over): It's arguably the most ambitious endeavor of her career. A 24-hour television channel dedicated entirely to the vision of Oprah Winfrey.</s>WINFREY: I could take every hero who inspired me. MATTHEW BELLANY (ph),</s>TV EXPERT: The launch of O.W.N. is a huge deal in the television business.</s>WYNTER: TV expert Matthew Bellany (ph) says he knows what O.W.N.'s greatest strength and challenge will be.</s>BELLANY (ph): Oprah, she has a huge advantage in launching a network because she is a brand. The danger is that the programming may not live up to the brand. I mean, that's the big question mark.</s>WYNTER: Here's how Oprah plans to answer that question.</s>DR. PHIL MCGRAW, PSYCHOLOGIST AND TV PERSONALITY: This is a time for new beginnings.</s>WYNTER: In ask "Oprah's All-Stars", a live audience goes one-on- one with Dr. Phil, Suze Orman, and Dr. Oz.</s>WINFREY: Everybody has a story.</s>WYNTER: "Master Class" profiles eight world icons. "Season 25" takes fans behind the scenes of Oprah's hit talk show. While "Big Bowl of Love" invites viewers into the kitchen of Christina Ferrari.</s>CHRISTINA FERRARE, "BIG BOWL OF LOVE": This is my dream come true chapter and this is what I love to do.</s>WYNTER: And for those who love clutter, Peter Walsh has "Enough Already."</s>PETER WALSH, "ENOUGH ALREADY": This is a show that looks at people's stuff but gives them a road map out of this overwhelming amount of clutter in their house.</s>WYNTER (on camera): And by, Peter, so many new networks fail. Why do you think this one is different?</s>WALSH: People want - want to - to be the best they can be. People want heroes. People want inspiration. Here at last is a level of programming that brings people that.</s>FERRARE: There are a lot of critics out there, and I personally don't understand why wouldn't she want to have this kind of programming when today all you see now are those shows about, you know, housewives pulling each other's hair.</s>WALSH: I know it's easy to be cynical or skeptical, but I for one am so excited about what's going to happen when that - that switch is flipped.</s>WYNTER: The switch gets flipped New Year's Day when viewers will decide whether they will shine a light on O.W.N.</s>WYNTER: And the first official program on O.W.N., it airs at noon on New Year's Day. It's going to be a two-hour special hosted by Oprah herself. It's going to be called Oprah's Guide to O.W.N. As for all of the Discovery health shows, only two will remain on the network, "Deliver Me" and "Mystery Diagnosis" - Joe, Christine.</s>ROMANS: All right. Still to come, it's Google's world, you just live in it. Coming up, how Google could become your next phone company and whether that's a good thing.</s>JOHNS: And rain, ice, and snow. Storms leaving the west a total mess. And this, by the way, may be coming your way, where the extreme weather is heading for the first weekend of 2011. It's 26 minutes after the hour.