why wouldn't you want to have this kind of programming when today all you see now are the shows about housewives pulling each other's hair. >> i know it's easy to be cynical or skeptical but i for one am so excited about what will happen when that switch is flipped. >> reporter: the switch getting flipped new year's day when viewers will decide whether they will shine a light on own. and the first official program on own, it airs at noon on new year's day. it's a two-hour special hosted by oprah herself called "oprah's guide to own." as for those discovery health shows, only two will remain on the network. "deliver me" and "mystery diagnosis." >> all right. thank you. next hour, a well-known television critic of the jump of network tv to basic cable. will her audience jump with her? we'll ask him. like so many stars, her public image is often at odds