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Another daytime fixture, Dr. Phil McGraw, is leaving after more than two decades as one of television’s most popular talk show hosts. His syndicated daytime show, Dr. Phil, will end its run of original episodes with the current 2022-2023 television season, the show’s 21st. McGraw’s decision comes as…

Current and former employees of Phil McGraw’s talk show Dr. Phil made allegations of having experienced toxic work conditions—including verbal abuse, intimidation, and racism—and inappropriate interactions with guests, in a Buzzfeed expose released on Thursday. None of the dozen employees that spoke to the outlet…

CBS has made its first order of the 2022 pilot season. The network has handed a pilot pickup to a mother-and-son legal drama from Scott Prendergast, who wrote on FX's Wilfred and appeared in HBO's Silicon Valley, and Dr. Phil McGraw. The untitled drama, which comes from CBS Studios, is written and executive produced…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some sweet first footage for under-the-radar animated film Bug Therapy, which is voiced by Dr. Phil McGraw, Meghan Trainor, Jay Leno, Sterling K. Brown, Tom Green, Emily Goglia, and Jason Reisig. The short film, which is being sold at TIFF by Lon Haber & Co, is focused on mental health issues and was…

Former The Doctors host Dr. Ian Smith is taking a diagnostic approach to endemic "racial discrimination and retaliation" issues with the syndicated series from ViacomCBS and the Dr. Phil McGraw's production company. This comes after CBS boss George Cheeks empathetically supposedly told a fired Dr. Smith earlier this…

Dr. Phil McGraw said that he “probably used bad examples” when he compared the threat of the coronavirus to the deaths each year in auto accidents, pool drownings and smoking-related illnesses. His comments as a guest on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show The Ingraham Angle on Thursday triggered an online backlash. He…

Editors' Note: With full acknowledgment of the big-picture implications of a pandemic that has already claimed thousands of lives, cratered global economies and closed international borders, Deadline's Coping With COVID-19 Crisis series is a forum for those in the entertainment space grappling with myriad consequences…

UPDATED with latest: Los Angeles-based The Talk has joined The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The View and other daytime shows that will tape without a live audience due to spread of the coronavirus. CBS released a statement Friday that, “out of an abundance of caution” The Talk will forego its live studio audiences beginning…

Cash her outside, or cash her inside — either way, Danielle Bregoli is rolling in the cash after signing a songwriting/co-publishing deal that could be worth as much as $1 million. Known professionally as Bhad Bhabie, Bregoli came to public attention in 2016 on the Dr. Phil show, where she appeared with her mother on…

UPDATED with response from Dr. Phil spokesperson: Three separate guests of the syndicated Dr. Phil talk show say the show enabled their use of drugs and alcohol before and during taping of segments about their addictions. The guests and their families went on the record in a report published jointly today by the…

Not quite a year after taking lots of heat for the disturbing display of a clearly ill Shelley Duvall for a Dr. Phil November sweep broadcast, Phil McGraw stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to plug his show’s season debut, which will feature a “really interesting interview with Sinead O’Connor.” Nearly a month earlier…

Saturday Night Live‘s Leslie Jones took full advantage of last night’s Tonight show appearance by doing in person what thousands of meme imitators could only manage on video: Asking Dr. Phil “howbow dah”? Jimmy Fallon’s viral-savvy Tonight audience clearly needed no backgrounding about the infamous 13-year-old Dr. Phil…