When Oprah Winfrey's cable channel makes its debut in January, she will still be the host of her syndicated talk show on local stations. Contractual agreements will prohibit her from appearing in something similar on OWN, which is short for the Oprah Winfrey Network, until the syndicated show ends in September 2011. So her producers at OWN have found an unusual way to feature their star. They are creating a show about the end of 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' On Tuesday, OWN will announce 'Behind the Scenes: Oprah's 25th Season,' a weekly reality show about the production of Winfrey's final syndicated season. The new show will begin in January 2011, the same month that the Discovery Health Channel becomes OWN and begins showing programming. The announcement helps answer a question that has hounded OWN since it was jointly founded by Winfrey's production company, Harpo, and Discovery Communications nearly two years ago: Just how visible will Oprah be on her own channel? The companies have barely answered until now. At a conference in Las Vegas last week, Discovery's chief executive, David M. Zaslav, said, 'Oprah will be a very present part of this network' and declined to say more. Christina Norman, the chief executive of OWN, said in a telephone interview that 'Behind the Scenes' was, 'the thing that everybody wants to see, in some ways: How does it get made? What happens when it goes wrong and what happens when it goes right?' She said the producers would compile the weekly episodes as quickly as possible. Winfrey will narrate 'Behind the Scenes.' Winfrey has dabbled with cable programming before, as host of 'Oprah After the Show' on Oxygen for several years. She cut her ties to Oxygen before starting the venture with Discovery. Also on Tuesday, OWN will announce four other unscripted series: 'Kid-napped,' about children who kidnap workaholic parents; 'Miracle Detectives,' about spiritual skeptics and believers; 'Sentenced,' about a women's prison in Indiana; and 'Search,' about a woman who finds long-lost family members and friends. OWN executives expect to say more about the channel's programming at Discovery's upfront presentation to advertisers this spring. Reinforcing the secrecy surrounding the channel, Norman declined to say whether Winfrey would be attending the upfront. Separately, on Friday, Winfrey proved again that she remains a power in the syndicated TV market, as NBC Universal and Sony Television concluded a deal for a home base of stations for 'Nate Berkus,' a new lifestyle show from Harpo. Berkus, the design expert who rose to fame as a regular guest on Winfrey's show, is slated to begin the show in the fall. Sony will receive both a license fee and a split of the advertising revenue on the show, despite a weak marketplace for local stations. 