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Report: Oprah Winfrey To Develop Talk Shows For King World LOS ANGELES (AP) – Oprah Winfrey will develop talk shows for television syndicator King World, a trade magazine reported. Details of the agreement were not announced but her first effort is expected in 2006, Broadcasting & Cable magazine said in the coming week’s edition. Only one of King World’s last five talk shows was a hit: “Dr. Phil,” which was created by Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. Host Phil McGraw was a regular on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which is based in Chicago. “The person who develops the next hit will probably be Oprah Winfrey,” King World Chief Executive Officer Roger King told the trade publication. Among the company’s misses: Late 1990s talk shows with Roseanne Barr and Martin Short and the recently canceled “Living It Up!” with Jack Ford and Alexandra Wentworth. Winfrey reportedly will work on King World’s talk show development with Ellen Rakieten, executive producer of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”