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Thursday, November 27, 2008

This Season's Favorite Things from Oprah

By Tasha Miller

If you have heard of Oprah you know that the most popular show Oprah does each year is her "Season's Favorite Things" show which is usually around Thanksgiving each year. Fans will do just about anything to get the sacred golden ticket be on this special show. The audience can find out first hand what the season's favorite things are while Oprah shares with the studio and television audience several of her favorite things, no matter what they are or what the cost.

The lucky people that are in the audience literally have gifts thrown at them and are showered with gifts each holiday episode. There have been shows where the audience members have received over $10,000 worth of gifts. People love this show for obvious reasons.

When a companies product is picked to be on Oprah's "Season's Favorite Things" show, they warn the companies, "You are going to get slammed". One company said that for 6 weeks they could not even get a phone call out from their business, the phone lines were that busy, along with the thousands of internet orders they received.

Gifts totaling from $4000 to $15,000 are given away to every member of the audience and there is one thing that all the gifts have in common. As soon as the products appear on Oprah's show, the demand for these products goes wild and the viewers at home begin to look as to where they can find these items.

Last year there were 20 products on Oprah's Favorite Things list. Out of the 20 items in last year's show, one of them has been a favorite on two other shows; do you know what this item was? Each time it aired it was a different style of a certain product. See if you can find out what it was? Can you guess what will appear on this year's show?

All the gifts that are featured on Oprah's "seasons Favorite Things" show are donated by the manufacturers. The know that as soon as it is mentioned on Oprah's show people will be calling, buying it on the internet or coming in their stores by the droves. The same thing happens when Oprah does her summer favorite things show, although the fall show is by far the most popular. The fall show will be airing within the next couple of days.

Can you guess what will be on this years show? Do you know what was the item that that has featured more than once? Is it possible that it will be featured again this year? Who knows, people are still going crazy for it though and it still remains a bestseller.

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