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Dr. Phil McGraw is the latest celebrity doctor to trigger a backlash over comments made on the coronavirus, when, as a guest on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, he compared coronavirus deaths to those due to smoking, car crashes and swimming pool accidents. “The fact of the matter is we have 45,000 people a year die…

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…

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Phil McGraw, host and executive producer of Dr. Phil, has signed a new deal with CBS Television Distribution to continue the show through 2023. The extension adds three years onto McGraw’s current deal and will take the daytime talk show through its 21st season. With Dr. Phil, which has been the highest-rated daytime…

Dr. Phil and Jay McGraw have sold two hourlong projects to CBS via their Stage 29 Productions, faith-themed medical drama Chaplain with Nick Weiss (Drunk Wedding), Isaac Laskin and Reign co-creator/executive producer Laurie McCarthy; and legal drama Melanie, with Scott Prendergast (Silicon Valley). Both projects hail…

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…

Following the successful start of CBS drama Bull, series executive producers Jay McGraw and Dr. Phil McGraw are ramping up their scripted efforts. The father-and-son duo have signed a first-look deal for their Stage 29 Productions at CBS Television Studios, the studio behind Bull, and have recruited Julia Eisenman…

If you were among those hoping that the appalling public display of a clearly ill Shelley Duvall today for a Dr. Phil November sweep broadcast would at least have ended in his getting her into the treatment facility where, he claimed, the best specialists would treat her physical and mental illnesses, you were…

Freddy Rodriguez is segueing from his co-starring role on NBC’s The Night Shift to playing one of the main characters in the CBS drama pilot Bull, from Amblin TV and CBS TV Studios. Written by Phil McGraw and Paul Attanasio, Bull is based on popular daytime talk show host Dr. Phil's early days as head of one of the…

With newer syndicated daytime shows struggling to stick, studios are moving in to lock the talent of the strongest, long-running performers for years to come. On the heels of CBS TV Distribution earlier this year extending the contract of Judy Sheindlin, star of TV’s top-rated syndicated show Judge Judy, through 2020…

Several months after they launched a reality production company together, Jay McGraw, Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay Bienstock and Eugene Young have set up several projects. “My father and I decided that we wanted to make a real effort to get in the broadcast space,” said Jay McGraw, executive producer with Phil McGraw of…

EXCLUSIVE: Phil McGraw has signed with WME. This is the first time the top daytime talk show host has been represented by an agency. Since its launch a decade ago, McGraw’s Dr. Phil had been the No. 2 daytime talker behind The Oprah Winfrey Show, where McGraw got his start in television. Following the end of Oprah in…