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Zach Anner to compete for Oprah show in January
Well, the contestants are locked securely away from the press so we can’t actually talk with Zach Anner, the Austinite who won a spot to compete for his own show on media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s new network. But some details about the show are slowly trickling out.
The show, with the unwieldy title “Your OWN Show: Oprah’s Search for the Next TV Star,” is set to premiere in January 2011 and will be co-hosted by former “Queer Eye” guy Carson Kressley and entertainment journalist Nancy O’Dell. The competition series is produced by reality TV trailblazer Mark Burnett of “Survivor” and “The Apprentice” fame.
From OWN (the Oprah Winfrey Network):
O’Dell and Kressley will appear in each episode working with the 10 finalists, who were culled from more than 15,000 entrants. The finalists will participate in a “host boot camp” in which they compete in various challenges relevant to hosting and developing a television show. Challenges will range from booking interviews and researching story ideas, to successfully completing an actual screen test. Each episode will feature a celebrity judge whose expertise will assist the contestants while challenging them to sharpen their skills.
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