• TVNewsCheck, Thursday, August 5, 2010 11:25 PM

Rosie O'Donnell will make her return to daytime television on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. From 1996 to 2002 was the host of the daytime talk show The Rosie O'Donnell Show. According to OWN CEO Christina Norman, O'Donnell will bring her humor and down-to-earth approach to a new daily talk show scheduled to premiere in 2011. Oprah Winfrey called her a "true original, who brings her authentic voice, dynamic energy and pure passion to everything she does."

" The program, produced by O'Donnell, was brought to OWN by longtime Warner Bros. syndication veterans Dick Robertson and Scott Carlin, now of SantaBu LLC Inc. The show will be a daytime one-hour daily show based in New York. O'Donnell earned six consecutive Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Talk Show Host during her years on The Rosie O'Donnell Show. In 2006, O'Donnell replaced Meredith Vieira as co-host and moderator of "The View."

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