Dr. Phil: Living or Dead?

About Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil is an American tabloid talk show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002. On both shows McGraw offers advice in the form of "life strategies" from his life experience as a clinical and forensic psychologist.

The show is in syndication throughout the United States and a number of other countries. Its tenth season premiered on September 12, 2011. Occasional prime time specials have aired on CBS. The program has been nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award every year since 2004.

Since September 2009, Dr. Phil has been broadcast in HDTV with a revamped look and a new theme written and performed by McGraw's son, Jordan.

Dr. Phil is a production of Peteski Productions and distributed by CBS Television Distribution. Harpo Productions co-produced the series until 2010, with Paramount Domestic Television and its successor CBS Paramount Domestic Television serving as secondary co-producers until 2007, and it was originally distributed by King World Productions.

This program is taped before a live studio audience on Stage 29 at the Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood, California, twice in the morning on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Tapings take place from the end of August through mid December, and then from January through early May (excluding holidays).

Reruns of earlier episodes of the series began broadcasting on the Oprah Winfrey Network as of January 2011.