Sarah Ferguson may get own show on Oprah Winfrey's OWN channel

07/26/2010 by Corinne Heller

Sarah Ferguson, the United Kingdom's Duchess of York, may receive her own show on Oprah Winfrey's soon-to-be-launched OWN network.

"We have had initial conversations with Sarah Ferguson about a docu-series, not a talk show, but there is nothing to announce at this time," an OWN spokesperson told OnTheRedCarpet.com in a statement on Monday.

Several reports had said Ferguson, 50, was in talks to receive her own prime-time talk show.

She had made headlines earlier this year when she was videotaped appearing to offer to sell a British tabloid access to her ex-husband, Prince Andrew, who is the Duke of York, Queen Elizabeth's second son and fourth in line to the throne.

Ferguson apologized for her "serious lapse in judgment" in a statement after the video was posted online in May. She later went on The Oprah Winfrey Show and said her own self-hatred, mounting debts and "gross stupidity" led her fall for the videotaped sting.

Winfrey herself is set to host an evening show called "Oprah's Next Chapter", which would follow her travels around the world and is set to debut next year on her OWN cable network. She had announced in November that The Oprah Winfrey Show will end on Sept. 9, 2011 after 25 years.

The OWN network, a joint venture between her firm Harpo Inc. and Discovery, is set to launch on Jan. 1, 2011 on what is now the Discovery Health cable channel.

OWN is also producing five original two-hour documentaries with Julia Roberts, Forest Whitaker, Goldie Hawn, Gabriel Byrne and Mariel Hemingway, a network statement said on Monday, adding that the films will be presented as part of OWNS monthly documentary film club. Topics range from mothers to homelessness to the pursuit of happiness to life inside an Angola prison.