Oprah's Lifeclass is an American primetime television show hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011...

, airing on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The first episode premiered on October 10, 2011 at 8/7c. The show has been picked up for a second season, which will air weekly on OWN in Spring 2012.

Show Concept and Format

Oprah's Lifeclass is a self-help program that showcases "all of Oprah's lessons, revelations and aha moments over the past 25 years broken down to help make your life better, happier, bigger, richer - more fulfilling."

The show features interviews with guests and audience members from episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....

that relate to each Lifeclass topic. Winfrey also shares new ideas, thoughts, and reflections about each class; these interviews are interspersed with clips from relevant Oprah Show episodes.

Webcasts

During the first week of Oprah's Lifeclass, Winfrey hosted nightly webcasts at 9/8c to complement each on-air lesson. She was joined by a spiritual teacher or self-help expert every night, with whom she would discuss each Lifeclass lesson. After the first week of shows, she decided to host a webcast every Friday night at 9/8c after Oprah's Lifeclass to rehash the week's lessons with relationship expert, Iyanla Vanzant

Iyanla Vanzant

Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on Oprah's Lifeclass webcasts.Vanzant was born in...

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Season One Webcasts

№	Original Airdate	Expert	Webclass Subject
1	October 10, 2011	Eckhart Tolle Eckhart Tolle Eckhart Tolle is a German-born Canadian resident, best known as the author of the The Power of Now and A New Earth, which were written in English. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world...	The False Power of the Ego
2	October 11, 2011	Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on Oprah's Lifeclass webcasts.Vanzant was born in...	Letting Go of Anger
3	October 12, 2011	Cheryl Richardson	You Become What You Believe
4	October 13, 2011	Martha Beck Martha Beck Martha Nibley Beck is an American sociologist, therapist, life coach and best-selling author. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley...	The Truth Will Set You Free
5	October 14, 2011	Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on Oprah's Lifeclass webcasts.Vanzant was born in...	Week One in Review
6	October 21, 2011	Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on Oprah's Lifeclass webcasts.Vanzant was born in...	Week Two in Review
7	October 28, 2011	Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on Oprah's Lifeclass webcasts.Vanzant was born in...	Week Three in Review
8	November 4, 2011	Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on Oprah's Lifeclass webcasts.Vanzant was born in...	Week Four in Review
9	November 11, 2011	Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant is an inspirational speaker, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on Oprah's Lifeclass webcasts.Vanzant was born in...	Week Five in Review

Critical Reception

Oprah's Lifeclass debuted to mixed but generally negative reviews. Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times stated that "Oprah’s Lifeclass is The Oprah Winfrey Show with the life sucked out of it." Stanley further declares that the new series lacks "Winfrey’s spirited interactions with guests and audiences" and fails to capture the tone of The Oprah Winfrey Show when the host "was irreverent, bold and even at times shocking."

Ratings

The debut of Oprah's Lifeclass was seen by 330,000 viewers on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The series was also aired across Planet Green, TLC

TLC (TV channel)

TLC is an American cable TV specialty channel which initially focused on educational content. Since 1991 TLC has been owned by Discovery Communications, the same company that operates the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and The Science Channel, as well as other learning-themed networks...

, Discovery Fit & Health

Discovery Fit & Health

Discovery Fit & Health is an American cable television network owned by Discovery Communications dedicated to fitness and health. Launched on February 1, 2011, it is the result of the merger of Discovery Health Channel and FitTV and features programs formerly found on both...

 and Investigation Discovery reaching a combined total audience of 1.2 million.

Overall, an average 302,000 nightly viewers watched Oprah's Lifeclass on OWN during the month of October. Online, Oprah’s Lifeclass live webcasts, hosted by Oprah as she interacts with viewers, have seen over 3.5 million video views to date on Oprah.com and via OWN’s and Oprah’s Facebook pages.