'Dr. Phil' Talk Show Ending After 21 Seasons: Details

June 2024 · 3 minute read

All just right things should come to an finish. Dr. Phil McGraw announced that his daylight hours talk show will come to an in depth in spring 2023 after 21 seasons. 

“I've been blessed with over 25 superb years in daytime tv,” McGraw, 72, said in a statement to Variety on Tuesday, January 31. “With this show, we have helped 1000's of visitors and tens of millions of viewers thru everything from addiction and marriage to mental wellness and elevating youngsters. This has been an implausible chapter of my existence and career, however while I’m transferring on from sunlight hours, there's so a lot more I want to do.”

The CBS series, which began airing in September 2002, will prevent producing new episodes at the end of the 2022-2023 season, in line with Variety. However, the community hopes to stay repeats airing via no less than the next 12 months. 

Despite it’s over two-decade run, Dr. Phil continues to be the highest-rated sunlight hours talk show in the back of Live With Kelly and Ryan and averages around two million audience in keeping with episode Monday via Friday. 

“Phil is a valued partner and member of the CBS/King World family, and whilst his show could also be ending after 21 years, I’m satisfied to mention our dating is not,” Steve LoCascio, president of CBS Media Ventures, advised Variety on Tuesday. “Phil modified the daylight hours landscape because the power behind one of the vital well-liked talk displays ever on daylight hours TV. We plan to be within the Dr. Phil trade with the library for years yet to come and welcome alternatives to paintings in combination someday.”

News of McGraw’s departure comes less than a yr after the Oklahoma local denied allegations that he and his senior TV show staffers fostered a “poisonous” paintings atmosphere.

In February 2022, a number of current and former Dr. Phil staff anonymously made claims of verbal abuse, fear and intimidation by means of their superiors amid a Buzzfeed information investigative file. 

“It’s a clickbait tale as a result of Dr. Phil ‘sells tickets.’ BuzzFeed used to be introduced dozens of present and previous body of workers to talk to but if the reporter started hearing the reality which ruined their salacious narrative they declined,” McGraw’s attorney, H. Patrick Morris, informed Us Weekly in a statement at the time. “Dr. Phil makes a speciality of content for the program and doesn’t get focused on staff members of the family, however the workforce at the program not at all use ethnic foundation similar to described.”

The lawyer added: “’(*21*)’ is ridiculous. These visitors discover a caring place, a safe space to face their challenges, even if told what they want to hear instead of what want to pay attention.”

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While the workers noted that they never witnessed McGraw engage in debatable conduct himself, many claimed that senior staffers would yell and berate others for reputedly small errors, including that they're even “inspired to perpetuate racist stereotypes onscreen.”

Morris, however, denied the allegations of racism, noting that CBS does no longer “tolerate racist behavior.” 

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