Oprah Winfrey’s basic cable OWN channel isn’t doing so great. It’s been 19 months and her network is struggling in the ratings, and now her frequent guest Jenny McCarthy is leaving the OWN channel for NBC! McCarthy was set to create a television series for the talk show network, but she was not really getting along with the networks creative team.

“Jenny wasn’t thrilled with the direction that OWN producers were going with on the show,” the source sad. “She had been working with Oprah and her producers for over a year, developing this project for OWN. Jenny finally decided to embrace Oprah’s philosophy, which is to ‘follow your bliss.’ Well, Jenny followed her bliss and walked right off the project.”

But it gets even worse for Winfrey. To add insult to injury, McCarthy has now taken the concept for the show she developed for OWN to NBC to produce.

Winfrey has admitted that launching OWN has been a bigger challenge than she had thought. She recently took over the network’s CEO duties.

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