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 with original episodes with the current 2022-2023 television season, the show’s 21st.
McGraw’s decision comes as his most recent contract is coming to an end. Dr. Phil previously received a five-season renewal in 2018 as part of a mega deal extension with CBS Television Distribution, taking it through its 21st season.
It’s been a transformational year in the increasingly challenging daytime talk show landscape, with stalwarts The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Wendy Williams Show, Maury, Dr. Oz as well as The Real all ending within the past 12 months. >>>"So Much More I Wish To Do" |
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Amazon Growth - Sources tell Deadline that former Warner Bros President of Production and Development Courtenay Valenti is nearing the end of her vetting process at Amazon Studios/MGM and is now negotiating her deal at the studio for a top film position. >>>Organizational Structure TBD
Strike Season Reasoning - NBC announced that its sci-fi drama La Brea has been renewed for a third season. The pickup is for six episodes and was influenced by the possibility of a writers and/or directors and actors strike. >>>Deal Struck With Cast
'Knock'-ing Off 'Avatar' - After reigning for seven weeks, Avatar: The Way of Water will cede No. 1 to M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Knock at the Cabin, which is set to do $15 million-$17 million per tracking >>>Full Weekend Outlook
Attractive Acquisition - Roadside Attractions has snapped up North American rights to the comedy My Happy Ending, toplined by Andie MacDowell. >>>February Release
'Sunflower' Power - Misha Green will reteam with her Underground and Lovecraft Country star Jurnee Smollett for the Lionsgate thriller Sunflower. Green will direct off a script she wrote, and will produce with Craig J. Flores. In Sunflower, two women struggle to escape from a deranged college professor who holds them hostage on a remote sunflower farm. >>>Eyeing Summer Start
In Brief - The Wiz is getting ready for the road to Broadway with an award-winning design team, including Oscar-winning Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler and Emmy-winning Watchmen costume designer Sharen Davis…Range Media Partners has signed producer, director and Best Actress Oscar winner, Halle Berry…Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions is developing a series based on Kiese Laymon’s coming-of-age novel Long Division...UTA has signed award-winning British-Spanish actress Patsy Ferran for representation in all areas |
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Renewals, Pickups & Cancelations
CBS has ordered its fewest drama pilots ever -- two. Also part of a trend, both are based on IP from established auspices and have big-name talent already attached — Robert and Michelle King’s Elsbeth starring Carrie Preston, a police procedural spinoff from the Kings’ The Good Wife/Good Fight universe, and Matlock, a gender swap reboot of the classic legal drama starring Kathy Bates, from Jennie Snyder Urman and Eric Christian Olsen...Hulu is reviving King of the Hill from 20th Television Animation, with co-creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels set to return, as well as the beloved former cast...Superman & Lois likely will continue "for one or two more seasons," according to DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran. "It’s a show everybody likes, so it’s going to keep going for a little bit," said Gunn. |
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Casting About
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Danny Trejo and Joel McHale have been unveiled as key supporting cast members of Stimson Snead’s sci-fi comedy Tim Travers & The Time Traveler’s Paradox, which wrapped in Spokane Washington earlier this month.
Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne are set to co-star in Polly Steele’s upcoming drama Four Letters Of Love as the parents of fated lovers played by up-and-coming actors Fionn O’Shea and Ann Skelly.
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Dylan Sprouse (After We Collided) and Mason Gooding (Scream VI) will star Patrick Lussier’s action thriller Aftermath, which Voltage Pictures will handle global sales on an introduce to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market.
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Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect) and Justin Bartha (National Treasure) are among the stars set for the upcoming comedy Nuked, which Deena Kashper wrote and is directing. It is her feature debut. |
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🎥 At the same time it courts lower-end subscribers with the new $7-a-month Basic with Ads tier, Netflix is also enticing top-level Premium customers to stay by adding new features. Spatial audio and an expanded number of devices on which subscribers can stream are both rolling out with no increase to the $20 monthly cost.
🏈 Tom Brady, generally considered the best quarterback in NFL history, said he is retiring after 23 seasons -- and this time it's "for good." The 45-year-old marvel, who called it quits a year ago before reconsidering, will join the Fox Sports broadcast booth.
⚽ Apple and Major League Soccer have officially launched MLS Season Pass, a joint streaming venture that represents new territory for Apple and a new level of involvement in direct-to-consumer streaming by a sports league.
🚨 Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, an actor in Dances with Wolves now known as Nathan Chasing Horse, was arrested in Nevada on sexual assault charges following a raid at his home. He is best known for playing Smiles a Lot in the Kevin Costner-directed film.
🏆 The Academy announced Tuesday that it won’t revoke Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar nomination for To Leslie, but said that "tactics are being addressed."
🍿 Will Smith and Martin Lawrence revealed Tuesday that they’re in early pre-production on a fourth Bad Boys movie at Sony Pictures with Bad Boys for Life's Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah returning to helm from a script by Chris Bremner.
🤦♂️ “In hindsight, I got a little carried away and over-invested relative to the uncertainty I saw in the market,” Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said Tuesday morning as the company reported a jump in users but wider losses one week after laying off 600 people.
📺 Nexstar Media Group, which last year acquired 75% of The CW, updated investors on the “offensive and defensive” rationale for the acquisition, saying the deal will enable Nexstar to evolve from a local station owner to a player in the national broadcast ad business.
🦊 Fox News continued to dominate the January cable news ratings, drawing more viewers, on average, than the combined audience of rivals MSNBC and CNN.
In Brief - CBS has set a global FBI crossover event with FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted via CBS and streaming on Paramount+ on April 4…The Qatar Investment Authority has joined Providence Equity Partners and Apollo as a major investor in Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company…Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to distribute Westworld and other key shows via FAST channels has materialized with deals struck with Roku and Tubi…MLB Network was pulled off the YouTube TV platform Tuesday as talks broke down over a new carriage agreement. |
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Trending  You People, starring Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy, debuted at the top of Netflix's English-language films chart, racking up 55.65M hours viewed in its first week.
🔻 Shares in Snap Inc., the parent of Snapchat, fell 13% in after-hours trading as its latest quarterly financial report showed operating losses of $287 million in the period that ended December 31. That compares with a $25 million loss just a year ago. |
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Obituaries
🕯 Kevin O’Neal, the younger brother of actor Ryan O’Neal who for a time built a steady, if less-widely-known, performing career of his own, died overnight January 28 in his sleep of natural causes in Thousand Oaks. He was 77. O’Neal's most lasting role arrived in 1964 when he starred in the one-season TV adaptation of the novel, play and film No Time For Sergeants. 🕯 Floyd Sneed , the Canadian drummer who powered a string of 1970s chart-makers with the band Three Dog Night and provided back-up vocals for one of its biggest hits, "Joy to the World," died Jan. 27. He was 80. 🕯 Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Deaths in 2023 |
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On the Radar Wed - ACE Eddie Award nominations; Meta earnings
Thur - Amazon, Alphabet & Apple earnings; Trevor Noah on Corden
Sun - Grammys; 1923 season finale |
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The 5th x 400 - Footage of former President Donald Trump last year submitting to a deposition related to a civil investigation into the Trump organization’s business practices was released and it showed the monotone former Celebrity Apprentice host leaning on his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 400 times under questioning from the New York Attorney General's office. |
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