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Oprah Winfrey has made it clear that she doesn’t want to see her friends taking part in "Dancing With The Stars" -- even famously telling The Duchess Of York, Sarah Ferguson, "I better not see you on [the show]" But is Oprah trying to sabotage the ratings powerhouse or simply looking after those she loves?

Thanks to the Oprah Winfrey Network, Rosie O’Donnell will be back on television on Oct. 10, airing right before Winfrey’s new “OWN Your Life: The Oprah Class.”

In the meantime, OWN has released the first teaser trailer.

It was a case of good news-bad news for Oprah Winfrey today when the ratings for the heavily hyped Monday edition of her syndicated show as well as last week's ratings for her cable network OWN came in.

Winfrey opens up about her the challenges and rewards of launching a new network.

Oprah Winfrey's new network is planning new series on two pairs of entertainers with complicated lives: country music stars the Judds and actor Ryan O'Neal and his daughter, Tatum.The OWN network says both shows will appear sometime next year, along with a new makeover show starring Carson Kressley of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."

Viewers will watch as the Duchess of York struggles to rebuild her life with the help of some of experts.

Oprah Winfrey's coming cable channel, OWN, will announce Thursday that the queen of talk will host an evening interview show. The show, called "Oprah's Next Chapter," will place Ms. Winfrey in prime time when it begins after her current talk show ends in September 2011.