Production CompanyTelevision

Harpo Productions

Chicago, Illinois(approximate location)

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television
Founded1986Wikidata
Founded byOprah WinfreyWikidata
LocationChicago, Illinois
Social
LinkedIn
Phone+1 312 633 1000
Statusactive2024 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.1IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

20 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Emmys9of14nominations64%

151 wins from 492 nominations across all awards

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Highest rated
Adele One Night Only
2021
8.01,789 votes
The Dr. Oz Show poster
Lowest rated
The Dr. Oz Show
2009
3.71,241 votes
Mostly
talk-show, documentary, drama
Active
1986–2024
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
Best known for
Queen Sugar

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 25 of 28 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
16133 seasons

1986–2021

Television rating
5.7IMDb

Their films average 7.1, so the television rates 1.5 lower.

Networks
  • OWN7
  • Syndication4
  • Apple TV3
  • ABC1

Across 15 series matched to TMDB, 6,031 episodes. 2 still returning or in production.

Longest runningThe Oprah Winfrey Show · 25 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 30

11 films · 17 TV titles

Titles per year25 titles · busiest 2011 with 4

25 titles across 27 years, averaging 0.9 a year. The last five years hold at 1.4 a year. 12 of those 27 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time18 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
3579their average 6.1200020102020

Their 2010s work is their strongest, averaging 7.6 across 6 titles. The 9 titles since 2013 average 7.0, 0.7 above their 6.3 overall. 8 of 18 rated titles sit above their 6.3 average.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Leon Knoles2
Writers
  • Oprah Winfrey2
Notable cast
  • Oprah Winfrey14
  • Sidney Poitier3
  • Iyanla Vanzant3
  • Prince Harry2
  • Gayle King2
Genres
  • Talk-Show14 of 25
  • Documentary6 of 25
  • Drama5 of 25
  • Biography2 of 25
  • News2 of 25

Names appearing on two or more of Harpo Productions’s produced titles, across the 25 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with11 companies

Companies that appear alongside Harpo Productions on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

Film offices covering Chicago

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