Phil McGraw — higher referred to as Dr. Phil — has quite a bit to be enthusiastic about within the coming weeks, and he is letting ET be the primary to get a sneak peek.
In an unique new interview with Leisure Tonight’s Kevin Frazier, the 73-year-old daytime discuss present host opened up about his new e-book and gave a tour of the Texas studio the place his community, Advantage Road Media, is predicated.
For the Oklahoma native, the aim with Advantage Road Media is for his information group to be in the course of the nation, each actually and metaphorically. The identify got here from the concept that tales ought to attain Center America, however by no means alienate those that tune in to be purely introduced with the details in a merit-based trend.
“Advantage Road was not chosen at random. I believe this nation was constructed on a meritocracy, the place you reward exhausting work and expertise and contribution,” he tells ET. “That is the place type of Advantage Road meets Primary Road America at an intersection.”
That grand idea is the muse for his greater and higher beliefs, in addition to the larger-than-life studio the place his new present, Dr. Phil Primetime, movies.
“Let me inform you, I have been on each information set in America — ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN — I have been on all of them and I’ve by no means seen something like what we have now right here,” he says. “Hey, every thing’s massive in Texas.”
The brand new community additionally boasts massive names like Steve Harvey, Nancy Grace and Chris Harrison, who every host their very own reveals on Advantage Road. Harvey hosts Steve, whereas Grace leads Crime Tales With Nancy Grace. The identify of Harrison’s present has not been introduced but, however ET just lately spoke with him about becoming a member of the community because the host of a relationship actuality sequence.
“Name it divine intervention, karma, kismet, no matter it’s, the truth that Dr. Phil created this community in my very own yard right here in Dallas, it means the world to me to, not solely be returning to tv, however to be doing it right here in a hometown crowd,” Harrison, 52, mentioned.
On high of that, Harrison is teaming up with his spouse, former ET correspondent Lauren Zima, to host a morning present, with The Bachelor alum gushing, “Not solely do I get to return to tv, I get to do it with the girl I really like.”
In February 2023, McGraw spoke solely with ET about his syndicated tv present, Dr. Phil, coming to an finish after twenty years. He performed coy about what was to come back, nonetheless.
“I have been doing this for 21 years and I like it, I am nonetheless very keen about it, and make no mistake, I am not transferring on from tv. I am simply transferring on from daytime [TV],” McGraw mentioned.
On the time, he described it as a primetime strategy to what he described as a serious subject for the American public, including that he believes details will not be on the middle of informational information applications now and that he hopes his new enterprise will change that.
“[It’s] not only a present, however an entire strategy to what is going on on in America proper now as a result of… I am very involved with what is going on on in America proper now,” McGraw mentioned. “I am involved that the American household’s beneath assault, that our values are beneath assault, that the very idea of fact is beneath assault. I wished a much bigger viewers, a much bigger play, a much bigger platform than daytime can afford.”
Centering a return to details can also be the idea behind McGraw’s new e-book, We have Acquired Points: How You Can Stand Robust for America’s Soul and Sanity, which was launched in late February. Among the many high points he believes the nation is dealing with is cancel tradition, which has been “pushed too far.”
“The title of the e-book is We have Acquired Points, and clearly we do,” he tells ET. “They’ve pushed too exhausting, and persons are going, ‘Now wait a minute’ … They’re pushing again now, and I believe it’s the fitting time for this e-book. It’s the fitting time for Dr. Phil Primetime. I believe persons are prepared for some widespread sense once more.”
Dr. Phil Primetime airs each day at 8 p.m. — examine native listings. His new e-book is now on bookshelves and in all places books can be found.
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