Rosie O’Donnell is going to work for Oprah — resurrecting her daytime talk show for Winfrey’s new cable network, OWN.

The show, as-yet-untitled, will air daily starting sometime next year, the network said last night.

OWN is scheduled to launch in January, but O’Donnell’s show will not premiere until later, a network spokesperson said.

O’Donnell, 48, hosted a very successful talk show from 1996 to 2002, when she quit abruptly.

Four years later, she was hired to co-host ABC’s “The View,” replacing Meredith Vieira. But that, too, ended dramatically after a blowup with fellow panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Rosie’s new show is the second talk show to be signed to the network.

Gayle King, Oprah’s closest friend and a former news anchor, will also host a daily talk show on OWN.

O’Donnell’s hour-long OWN show will air from New York, the network said.

The network has been scrambling in recent months to finalize its lineup for the ambitious startup.

Officials said this week that they had already spent $75 million getting OWN off the ground.

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