Shania Twain gets show on Oprah's network

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"My vision for OWN is to create a network that inspires our viewers and makes them want to be who they are on their best day," said Ms. Winfrey.

"We want to provide our audience with the tools to awaken, become more alive, and connect to what really matters to them in a fun, engaging, and entertaining way," said Christina Norman, chief executive officer, OWN.

The five new series being announced today are OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER, VISIONARIES: INSIDE THE CREATIVE MIND, YOUR OWN SHOW: OPRAH'S SEARCH FOR THE NEXT TV STAR, GAYLE KING LIVE! and WHY NOT? WITH SHANIA TWAIN.

After 25 years and 28,000 guests, Oprah is saying goodbye to "The Oprah Winfrey Show," but NOT goodbye to what she loves to do.  In OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER, she'll have more riveting conversations with the people we all want to hear from, in some very unexpected places.  Oprah's getting untethered from the chairs, opening up her world and taking you with her.  From the Taj Mahal to her beloved oak tree, the Great Wall to her own teahouse, it's a whole new kind of Oprah show.  If she can dream it, she'll do it!  This one-hour regular series is produced by Harpo Studios.

In the new series VISIONARIES: INSIDE THE CREATIVE MIND, the world's top talent will take viewers inside their creative process, offering a rare opportunity to see how true masterminds bring their art to life.  Academy Award®-winning director James Cameron; Grammy Award-winning musician, artist, entrepreneur and pop culture icon Lady Gaga; internationally renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose arresting work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue; Tom Ford, the fashion designer who breathed new energy into Gucci and is now enjoying newfound success as the director of the Academy Award-nominated film A Single Man; and will.i.am, founding member of The Black Eyed Peas, Emmy®-winning actor, entrepreneur and seven-time Grammy Award-winning artist, will all appear in this new one-hour weekly series.  Radical Media will produce.

Oprah has brought you some of daytime's biggest stars: Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray, Dr. Oz, and will this fall with Nate Berkus.  Now, it's your turn.  Do you have what it takes to have your own show?  Oprah and the most successful reality producer in television, Mark Burnett, are joining forces on a nationwide search to discover television's next big star in YOUR OWN SHOW: OPRAH'S SEARCH FOR THE NEXT TV STAR (working title).  Oprah will announce all the details on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in May, and the search will begin.  The series will be produced by Burnett's production company.

Start your day with Oprah's best friend and O, The Oprah Magazine's Editor-at-Large, Gayle King. Her hit radio show will come to OWN live daily in GAYLE KING LIVE! The people you want to talk to, the people you want to talk about, and everywhere you want to be will all be wrapped up in Gayle's trademark no-nonsense style. This is a one-hour series.

By the age of 17, she had survived a childhood of poverty and the loss of both her parents in a devastating accident, but Shania Twain still went on to become the best-selling female artist in country music history. Then at the height of superstardom, she was blindsided by a double betrayal shattering her 14-year marriage. Now in WHY NOT? WITH SHANIA TWAIN, Shania opens up about her life-altering heartbreak and how she's moving on.  Follow her as she begins her climb back to the top, a personal journey filled with risk, revelations and unexpected adventures.  The one-hour series will be produced by Gay Rosenthal Productions with Gay Rosenthal executive producing.

These new series join the previously announced slate (all titles working titles):

BEHIND THE SCENES: THE OPRAH SHOW FINAL SEASON is a revealing new docu-series taking viewers for the first time ever behind the scenes of the final season of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."  Oprah will introduce you to the Harpo family, the people she works with side by side every day.  Viewers will be right there, watching what it takes to put a magical hour with Oprah Winfrey on the air. Be there as "The Oprah Winfrey Show" sunsets into television history.  The series is co-produced by Harpo Studios and Radical Media.

BREAKING DOWN THE BARS is not like any prison show you've ever seen.  We're going to a new level, where there is a shot at rehabilitation and atonement.  Inside the prison walls, can these women find the strength to confront their crimes and find redemption?  The one-hour format is produced by 44 Blue Productions.

In ENOUGH ALREADY (formerly THE PETER WALSH PROJECT), Peter Walsh continues in his quest to help people declutter their lives.  As Mr. Walsh says, "Start with the vision you have for the life you want and you have taken the first real step to long-term and remarkable change."  The one-hour format is produced by Discovery Studios.

Laura Berman, sex therapist, relationship expert, best-selling author and Sirius XM radio show host, wants you to have great sex.  She's getting out from behind her desk with IN THE BEDROOM WITH DR. LAURA BERMAN to help real couples with their relationships.  The one-hour format is produced by Harpo Studios.

Go INSIDE WITH LISA LING and meet people and hear stories from places you can only imagine.  From mail-order brides to American militias, Ms. Ling goes places most people wouldn't dare to go.  The one-hour format is produced by Part2 Pictures.

We are at a time of the most advanced technology ever, yet we are more disconnected than ever — from our families, our communities and even ourselves.  In KIDNAPPED BY THE KIDS, parents get a much-needed wake-up call when their kids take drastic steps to reclaim Mom and Dad.  The one-hour format is produced by Love Productions.

Part of seeing what's possible is seeing the impossible.  THE MIRACLE DETECTIVES explores amazing events that couldn't possibly have happened.  Or could they?  The new series dives deep into the possibilities, with one believer and one skeptic in need of proof.  The one-hour format is produced by Pilgrim Film & Television.

In OPRAH PRESENTS: MASTER CLASS (working title), Oprah has handpicked some of the most intriguing people of our time to share their stories, insights, and lives. Pull up a chair for this one-of-a-kind class with JAY-Z, Bono, Simon Cowell, Lorne Michaels, Toni Morrison and Condoleezza Rice.  The one-hour format is produced by Radical Media.

THE SWELL LIFE takes a look inside the lives of former competitive surfer Izzy Paskowitz, his wife Danielle, their three children -- one of whom is autistic -- and their surf school business.  We will watch their highs and lows, as they manage a business and a foundation for autistic children.  The half-hour format is produced by Snackaholic.  

Renowned search specialist and genealogist Pam Slaton is the person you turn to when you need to complete your "life story."  In SEARCHING,Pam, a mother of two and an adoptee herself, sets out to help those in need of closure.  Some will be looking for a long-lost love, others a former enemy to seek forgiveness.  Whether separated by adoption, tragedy or simple chance, this series will follow each emotional journey to the end.  The one-hour format is produced by Stuart Krasnow Productions.

About OWN: THE OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK

A joint venture between Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications, OWN: THE OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK is a multiplatform media company designed to entertain, inform and inspire people to live their best lives.  OWN will debut in January 1, 2011 in approximately 80 million homes, on what is currently the Discovery Health Channel.  The venture also will include the award-winning digital platform Oprah.com.  For more information, please visit www.oprah.com/own.

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Twain lands reality tv show

Shania Twain is set to feature in her own reality TV show - the singer will chronicle her attempts to revive her music career in front of the cameras.

The You're Still the One hitmaker hasn't released any music since her 2002 album Up!, and has recently embarked on other ventures including launching a fragrance collection and conducting interviews for a Canadian radio station.

Now Twain will give her recording career a boost by starring in Why Not? With Shania Twain, a reality series to be shown on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, according to People.com.

A statement from the TV company reads, "The show will follow (Twain) as she begins her climb back to the top, a personal journey filled with risk, revelations and unexpected adventures."

A broadcast date for the series has yet to be announced.

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Shania Twain Gets Reality Show On Oprah Winfrey Network

'Why Not? With Shania Twain' to air on OWN, which launches in 2011.

By Jocelyn Vena

Earlier this year, Shania Twain impressed us with her turn as a guest judge on "American Idol." And it looks like the country singer will be making use of her talent in front of the camera by starring in her own TV show.

Twain will star in "Why Not? With Shania Twain," an hourlong series on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. The network lists the show as one of the first original programs to premiere when OWN launches in January 2011. "The show will follow [Twain] as she begins her climb back to the top, a personal journey filled with risk, revelations and unexpected adventures," a press release said.

Twain's return to the spotlight comes after some time away following her divorce from record producer Mutt Lange in 2008. At the time, the singer released a statement on her Web site about the split, saying, "I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake; I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever."

She last released an album, Up!, in 2002. And, while she has no immediate plans to release new music, she has said on her Web site that she is writing material. "I'm writing you from the Caribbean where I'm warming up after a cold stretch in Canada during the holidays," she wrote in a blog post in February. "The sunny weather gets me into writing mode.  Many of the songs from The Woman in Me and Come on Over were written in the tropics, so it's a good place for me to be creative. ... My cousin Kenny and I kicked a few songs around as we tried to remember how they went. The jamming is pretty rough, but real, and thought you would appreciate the authenticity of it, even if it is poor, home quality."

Would you check out Shania Twain's TV show? Or, would you rather she release new music? Tell us in the comments!

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Oprah Winfrey discussed her new channel, The Oprah Winfrey Network, with media buyers Thursday. She also introduced the stars of OWN, including will.i.am and Shania Twain. (April 8)

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Shania Twain Goes From ‘Deep, Dark Place’ To ‘Inspired Again’ After Her Husband Left Her For Her Best Friend!

Country music superstar Shania Twain, 44, is going to share her “life-altering heartbreak” with the world, in her new reality show Why Not? which will launch in January, 2011 on Oprah Winfrey’s new TV network, OWN.

When Shania’s husband of 14 years, Robert Lang, left her for  her best friend and personal assistant Marie-Anne Thiebud in May 2008, Shania admits she “was in a deep dark place.”

The “Your Still The One” singer told Oprah during an interview at the OWN upfront event at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York on Apr. 9, “I’m getting inspired again. I’m still not all the way there yet.”

Shania, who looked radiant and full of life, confessed to Oprah, “I feel like in a way I’m starting over, with everything. This is a very personal experience that I think is important to share. This is an experience of recovery. I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.”

Shania’s show will be called Why Not? “because people would ask me to do things, and if I couldn’t come up with three good reasons as to Why Not,” she says, “then I would go for it.”

While Shania continues the process of moving on, viewers can “Follow her as she begins her climb back to the top, a personal journey filled with risk, revelations and unexpected adventures,” according to a press release from NOW.  What do you think? Will you watch Shania’s new show? —Corynne Steindler

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Shania Twain Starts Her Own Reality Show

Shania Twain wanted to "go away and disappear" following her marriage split.

The country singer - whose 14-year union with Robert 'Mutt' Lange ended in May 2008 when he embarked on a relationship with Shania's friend Marie-Anne Thiebaud - is delighted to be the focus of a new reality TV show, Why Not? With Shania Twain, as it is helping her "recover" from her personal problems.

She said: "I feel like in a way I'm starting over, with everything. This is a very personal experience that I think is important to share. This is an experience of recovery. I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

"There were moments when I really just thought, `I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.' So, that was a bad slump."

Explaining the title of her TV show, the 44-year-old star - who is now dating Marie-Anne's ex-husband Frederic - says it is a reference to her recovery.

She explained at a presentation for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which will broadcast the series: "One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question."

Shania - who has an eight-year-old son Eja with Mutt - is still recovering from her relationship woes and admits she is unsure if she will ever fully be able to put the separation behind her.

She said: "There's a lot of recovery to accomplish. I'm not there yet. I'm on my way there. I'm not sure I'll ever be there."

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