In his appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, Jay Leno told the host that "NBC could not have handled it worse, from 2004 onward," while being interviewed for the first time about his return to The Tonight Show. Leno went on to say he was "devastated" when NBC honcho Jeff Zucker asked him to pass on The Tonight Show six years ago, and that he told "a little white lie" in sharing his support publicly for Conan O'Brien, according to show notes from the New York Times. Doesn't a "white lie" imply unimportance? Conan circa 2010 might disagree. (more...)

The forthcoming fifth season of The Tyra Banks Show will be its last, the host told People today. “I’ve been loving having fun, coming into your living rooms, bedrooms, hair salons for the past 5 years," said Banks. According to People, who scored the exclusive report, Banks will leave to work on launching Bankable Studios, her film production company, and focus on bringing “positive images of women to the big screen." True to form, Banks was motivational in her parting words: "My next huge steps will allow me to reach more women and young girls to help us all feel as fierce as we truly are," she said. (more...)

video The power of Oprah Winfrey is such that while news Winfrey would be ending her talk show in 2011 was not really a shock to anyone, the idea of turning on the TV at 4pm and not finding Oprah on her couch may take some time to absorb. The Oprah Winfrey Show has been in syndication since 1986 meaning, among other things, that at least half my office has not known television without Oprah, and that the other half (including myself) does not remember after school television without Oprah. Even if you weren't the biggest fan, she was just always there. Oprah will inevitably be remembered in totality and not for specific highlights -- she is so far reaching, and now so much a part of the American psyche, that it's hard to think of a place she hasn't had some sort of ripple effect on (though perhaps at this moment in time it will be book publishing that will miss her presence most). With that said, here's a look at the top ten Oprah moments of the last 23 years, which were harder to come by than you might think mostly due to the fact YouTube has only been around for the last four of those years. Nevertheless! Here are some outstanding highlights. NEXT>>> The Oprah Fat Wagon