Paula Dee News

Food Network and Cooking Channel look to again satiate the audiences' appetite, showcasing a 2012 line-up of returning favorites and new programming faces and formats, including -- 22 new series and 35 returning shows across both networks, as announced today by Brooke Johnson, President, Food Network & Cooking Channel.

Tune in Sunday, March 4th to OWN's new series OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER, to see Oprah and Gayle visit Paula Deen, the queen of Southern cuisine, at her home in Savannah, Georgia. It's two days of home cooking, hilarious adventures and revealing conversation!

Tune in Sunday, March 4th to OWN's new series OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER, to see Oprah and Gayle visit Paula Deen, the queen of Southern cuisine, at her home in Savannah, Georgia. It's two days of home cooking, hilarious adventures and revealing conversation!

Oprah Winfrey's new primetime series OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER (Sundays, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) will expand to air Sundays and Mondays through February. The series, which features Oprah as she steps outside of the studio for riveting, enlightening and in-depth conversationswith newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders and real-life families, will expand to air part two of her in-depth interviews starting Monday, January 30 (10:00 - 11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on OWN.

Food Network star Paula Deen confirmed on NBC's TODAY that she has been diagnosed with Type II diabetes.

Viewers can take an up-close and personal look inside the family history of some of today's most beloved and iconic celebrities when NBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" returns for its third season on Friday, February 3 (8-9 p.m. ET). The celebrities who star in the series are Martin Sheen, Marisa Tomei, Blair Underwood, Reba McEntire, Rob Lowe, Helen Hunt, Rita Wilson, Edie Falco, Rashida Jones, Jerome Bettis, Jason Sudeikis and Paula Deen.

OPRAH'S NEXT CHAPTER will premiere this Sunday, January 1, at 9/8c on OWN, and Oprah's kicking off the series with two hours of Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler.

Cooking Channel kick-starts the New Year with two new series designed to help viewers lose weight and change their eating habits. In Not My Mama's Meals, premiering Wednesday, January 4th at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT, Bobby Deen takes his mother's (Paula Deen) recipes and transforms her southern comfort food into lighter, leaner, yet still delicious versions of her dishes, with special guest appearances by Paula Deen, Daphne Oz, among others.

Two new faces will make their co-hosting debuts and two favorites return in the coming weeks on nationally-syndicated morning talk show 'LIVE! with Kelly.' Joining co-host Kelly Ripa for the first time will be 'Dancing with the Stars' professional dancer and Season 13 finalist DEREK HOUGH (Monday, December 5) and actor JONAH HILL (Tuesday, December 6). Returning to the show are favorites JERRY O'CONNELL (Friday, November 25) and singer JOSH GROBAN (December 7-9).

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today the premiere of Oprah Winfrey's anticipated original primetime series Oprah's Next Chapter. The debut episode will feature Aerosmith's Steven Tyler from his home in New Hampshire as a two-hour premiere event Sunday, January 1, 2012 (9:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT). The series continues in its regular time period beginning Sunday, January 8 (9:00 - 10:00 p.m. ET/PT).

Replace your regular holiday tradition with a Dad's Garage tradition - kicking classic theatre in the tookus! Returning to the stage on Friday, Nov. 25th at 8pm (after three years of success) the award-winning Dad's Garage Ensemble will again be skewering the quintessential Christmas play - A Christmas Carol. You'll see your favorite characters acting in ways that might not be so familiar as our improvisers create a whole new holiday experience right before your very eyes. Every evening the audience will choose a new 'invader' (who is complete surprise to the cast and can be anything from a big purple monster to Paula Deen) to infiltrate the world of Scrooge. It's up to the cast to keep the story on track, but because this year will be bursting with even more improv flavor than last year, things are guaranteed to get even nuttier than a Cornish game hen!

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On the heels of Oprah Winfrey's popular live online discussions during premiere week of her new OWN series 'Oprah's Lifeclass' (weeknights, Monday-Friday 8 p.m. ET/PT), Oprah will continue the live conversations every Friday night with 'Oprah's Lifeclass: LIVE' throughout the series run on-air and online beginning October 21.

On the heels of Oprah Winfrey's popular live online discussions during premiere week of her new OWN series 'Oprah's Lifeclass' (weeknights, Monday-Friday 8 p.m. ET/PT), Oprah will continue the live conversations every Friday night with 'Oprah's Lifeclass: LIVE' throughout the series run on-air and online beginning October 21.

Meg Caswell, 34, an interior designer and business owner from Chicago, Ill., has been crowned the season six champion of the hit reality competition HGTV Design Star. During tonight's season finale, panel member Vern Yip, along with Genevieve Gorder (Dear Genevieve), Candice Olson (Divine Design) and mentor David Bromstad (Color Splash), delivered the life-changing prize to Meg - a contract for her own show on HGTV.

Meg Caswell, 34, an interior designer and business owner from Chicago, Ill., has been crowned the season six champion of the hit reality competition HGTV Design Star. During tonight's season finale, panel member Vern Yip, along with Genevieve Gorder (Dear Genevieve), Candice Olson (Divine Design) and mentor David Bromstad (Color Splash), delivered the life-changing prize to Meg - a contract for her own show on HGTV.

You might want to take note that Kathy Griffin will be making a guest appearance on Joan Rivers' Fashion Police on E! tonight (Friday, July 22), promising to be inappropriately funny and bitingly incisive while hanging out with Joan, George and either Kelly or Giuliana. Griffin reminded her audience at Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall of that last night as she engaged in her trademark repartee before an audience filled with her deliriously attentive fans.

Talk show listings for Wednesday, March 23.

Talk show listings for Wednesday, March 23.

Talk Show Listings for Wednesday, January 5, 2011