BREAKING. Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Sheen and Ryan Seacrest are television's biggest earners in annual TV Guide's money makers list.

Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Sheen and Ryan Seacrest are among television's biggest earners in various TV genres according to TV Guide magazine's annual breakdown of the medium's biggest money makers.

Hugh Laurie from House MD is the top earner in the TV drama category with a salary of $400 000+, followed by Chris Meloni and Mariska Hargitay from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit who get $395 000+ per episode each.

Oprah Winfrey leads the list of all talkers with a massive margin by making $315 million a year and American Idol host Ryan Seacrest is the reality king with an income of $15 million a year. Charlie Sheen of Two and a half Men makes $1,5 million per episode and is the top earner in the TV comedy category, followed by his co-star Jon Cryer getting $550 000 per episode.

BREAKING. M-Net goes inside the White House with Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey.

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One South African TV channel that's very definitely NOT on holiday is M-Net. The pay channel just secured the rights to the once-off special, Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Winfrey Special and will broadcast this special THIS SUNDAY, 3 January at 18:00 on M-Net.

In the hour long entertainment special that was shown just before Christmas in America, Oprah Winfrey visits the White House to chat with Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. In an exclusive sit-down interview The White House couple shares personal Christmas stories with the talk show host, tour the official American presidential residence and show what's happening behind the scenes as the White House prepares for Christmas. Even the White House dog, Bo, has a Christmas stocking!

While the cameras are rolling, president Barack Obama, also a recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, makes a surprising disclosure about how he would grade his performance in office thus far.