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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Dr. Phil To Produce New Daily Mail TV show

L-R: Jay McGraw, Carla Pennington, Dr. Phil McGraw, Martin Clarke in Cannes today
DailyMail.com is teaming up with TV’s number one daytime talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw to launch a brand new daily television series in the US in Fall 2016.

Publisher and Editor-In-Chief Martin Clarke made the announcement with Dr. Phil on board the Daily Mail yacht at the Cannes Lions festival on Thursday.

Mr Clarke said DailyMail.com and Stage 29 Productions would jointly develop the dynamic and creative television show that will bring the very best of the world’s most read English-language newspaper website to life on TV in the US.

The series will be executive produced by Carla Pennington, executive producer of Dr. Phil and The Doctors) and Jay McGraw, executive producer of The Doctors, and Dr. Phil.

It will cover topics including breaking news, exclusive stories, politics, US and world news, crime, health, lifestyle, fashion and showbiz.

He said: 'As soon as I met Dr. Phil, I recognised he was a kindred spirit. He is a news guy and loves human interest. He knows television inside out.

It has not been decided if McGraw, who got his first break on Oprah, will front the show.

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