Just call them the O-Team.

Sources have confirmed to Page Six that a number of former Oprah Winfrey producers have quietly joined Tamron Hall’s daytime show after Candi Carter signed on as executive producer in March.

“They’ve hired several Oprah alum to build her second season,” an insider said. Another added, “Their initial executive producer didn’t have the Rolodex to assemble a ‘dream team,’ and that’s what Candi is doing. She quietly brought on Kristin Graham, a former producer on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show.’ Three other producers also joined, and two more will be hired.”
Carter — also a Winfrey alum and former “The View” executive producer — replaced TV vet Bill Geddie as Hall’s EP.

“Candi’s first week was the first week of the [coronavirus] shutdown. She got the show up on-the-air within a couple of weeks, and since she started, the show has had its best ratings since the premiere,” the second source said.
Despite ratings gains, Carter and Hall gave 18 staffers the boot on Thursday. “It was a bloodbath. Candi and Tamron purged. If you were a Geddie hire, you had to go. They set up calls and informed people one by one over the phone,” a third source told us.

“Everybody on the staff knew that when the season wrapped, there would be conversations [about next season]. They looked at their staff and there were people who were hired by Bill who weren’t cutting it, and weren’t doing the work or had the skills,” the second source said.

It’s no secret that Hall and Geddie had a contentious relationship: In March, a source told Page Six, “they stopped speaking around the fall” and multiple sources said they often did not see eye-to-eye on the show’s direction.

The first source summed up: “Candi put out the O signal. She reached out to the cavalry. Tamron is not trying to be the next Oprah, but why ignore the most successful show in daytime [when] members of that team are available?”