Hitmaker Ester Dean Braces for ‘Songland’ Season Finale, But Isn’t Ready to Say Goodbye to TV

variety.com:

Michele Amabile Angermiller With the season two finale of NBC’s “Songland” just hours away, hitmaker and star mentor Ester Dean is not ready to say goodbye to her Monday night showcase. “I want to do more TV,” she says. “I love TV, and if TV coincides with my songwriting,  I don’t have to give up one kid for the others.

So I would love to do more. I want to be Oprah. At the end of the day, that’s my goal. …  I mean, Kelly Clarkson is doing exactly how I want to do it.

She’s amazing.””Needless to say, Dean would be ecstatic if “Songland,” the show which co-stars Ryan Tedder and Shane McAnally as a panel of songwriters, mentors and producers there to find the best undiscovered writing talents, were picked up for a third season.