FOR BOTH Oprah Winfrey and her millions of fans, it’s the end of an era: Wednesday saw the final ever episode of Oprah’s astonishingly successful daytime talk show.

MORE than 700,000 people – one in every six of the population – tuned into TV3 on Sunday to decide on the fate of Aiden Grimshaw and Katie Waissel vying for glory.

TV3 is aiming to cement its position as the country’s second favourite TV channel and close the gap on RTÉ 1 with a new autumn schedule which sees a record number of home-produced programmes by the station.

THE country is still creaking under the strain of winter weather but TV3 yesterday tried to brighten the mood with the launch of its spring schedule.

BROADCASTER Vincent Browne is to anchor TV3’s new late-night television news and current affairs show from November 5.

Channel Five has poached the BBC’s Million Pound Property Experiment design gurus Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan.