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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 1986 (Chicago, Illinois) |
| Founder(s) | Oprah Winfrey |
| Key people | Oprah Winfrey (Chairman) Tim Bennett (President) Douglas J. Pattison (CFO) |
| Industry | Media |
| Products | The Oprah Winfrey Show Dr. Phil Rachael Ray The Dr. Oz Show Oprah & Friends Oprah.com O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine O at Home |
| Employees | 410 (2009) |
Harpo Productions, Inc. is an incorporated US-based multimedia production company founded by Oprah Winfrey (the name 'Harpo' is 'Oprah' spelled backwards, and was the name of her on-screen husband in The Color Purple). It also includes Harpo Films (the company's film production company) & Harpo Radio, Inc. (the company's radio division). It is based in Chicago, and Harpo Studios (the company's TV production studio) is located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago.
The land where the studio now sits once housed a cold storage warehouse that was used as a makeshift morgue for victims of the capsizing of the steamer SS Eastland.[1] The 88,000-square-foot (8,200 m2) facility was renovated and opened in the late 1980s for use by The Oprah Winfrey Show.[2]
In late 2008, Harpo Films signed an exclusive output pact with HBO.[3] Previously, Harpo films had a deal with ABC, which included production of Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day.[3]
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Harpo productions
Television
- 2009-present: The Dr. Oz Show
- 2006-present: Rachael Ray
- 2005: Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a teleplay by Suzan-Lori Parks and Misan Sagay
- 2003-2006: Oprah After the Show
- 2002-present: Dr. Phil
- 1998: The Wedding, miniseries
- 1990: Brewster Place, a spinoff from the 1989 miniseries
- 1989: Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place, with a teleplay by Karen Hall
- 1986-2011: The Oprah Winfrey Show
Film
- 2009: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
- 2007: The Great Debaters, directed by Denzel Washington, with a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks and Robert Eisele
- 1998: Beloved, starring Oprah, novel by Tony Morrison, with a screenplay by Akosua Busia
- 1985: The Color Purple, starring Oprah
Radio
References
- ^ "The Oprah Winfrey Show trivia", www.oprah.com. Retrieved on 2008-07-28.
- ^ Colander, Pat (1989-03-12). "Oprah Winfrey's Odyssey: Talk-Show Host to Mogul". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DC1038F931A25750C0A96F948260.
- ^ a b Frankel, Daniel (2008-12-16), "Oprah Winfrey pacts with HBO", Variety, http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997464.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
External links
- Harpo Films
- Harpo Productions at the Internet Movie Database
- Color Purple SlideShow [1]
- Oprah Winfrey's biography
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