Winfrey backed out of of the hybrid Internet-cable venture when she quietly sold her stake just prior to NBC Universal's acquisition of the languishing property. "Fifteen years ago, I wrote in my journal that one day I would create a television network, as I always felt my show was just the beginning of what the future could hold," says Winfrey. What happens to a dream deferred? If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. (Photo by George Burns)

Seriously, if anyone can make a YouTube channel work, it's Winfrey. Her show grabs 5 million viewers a day, and presumably some of them have computers. On the other hand, her past Web performance does not bode well for the venture. The last Oprah foray onto the web was the Oxygen cable-net/website which imploded and was sold off to NBC Universal, long after Winfrey had backed out of the venture.

Doherty, 35, helps those in need of ending relationships by creating fictitious circumstances to get the two people in a room together so she can watch their behavior — and then step in herself. [...]

The process is as simple as lying to a louse called Steven, luring him to a restaurant under the guise of appearing on a cooking show with his girlfriend, and having Doherty appear. That's right, Doherty does the dirty work — and we mean dirty. This guy, unaware that he's being watched, at first hits on Doherty by asking her if she's ovulating. When Doherty reveals his relationship is over, he announces he's relieved.

Of course, not all the scenarios are quite as cut-and-dry, and we'll certainly be tuning in for the episode in which the blubbering IT programmer with nothing to live for but the girlfriend he adores so much is given the brusque heave-ho by Brenda Walsh, upon which he instantly produces a handgun from his man satchel and proceeds to blows his head off as a blood-and-brain-splattered Doherty looks to her producers for guidance.

• Doherty Breaks Down Talking About 'Breaking Up' [LAT]