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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2002
Dr. Phil's TV show starting strong
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Dr. Phil strides out onto a sleekly decorated set, a rousing Shania Twain tune blasting from video monitors behind him and a cheering audience before him.
As the applause and strains of "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" ebb, it takes just moments for Phillip C. McGraw, psychologist, best-selling author and Oprah Winfrey sidekick, to strike.
"All right, don't suck up now. It's too late, you're in and the door is locked," he says, tweaking the crowd at the taping of his new syndicated talk show.
It's quintessential Dr. Phil — a slice of straight talk, hold the whipped cream and the whining
and the largely female audience loves it.
"He's wonderful," said Shannon Little, 31, of Anaheim Hills, Calif. "I think he's brilliant. ... He doesn't mess around. He gets right to the point."
After four years of dispensing
prickly advice on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in regular guest appearances, the 52-year-old has his own one-hour daily program. An impressive forum it is.
Dr. Phil, created by Winfrey's Harpo Productions and produced by Paramount TV, debuts Monday in virtually all television markets (97 percent), an astounding start for syndicated fare.
Most stations will air the program in the afternoon, a choice slot usually bestowed after shows prove themselves in lesser time periods. What's different here is Dr Phil's lineage.
"You're looking at the only (talk) show that's ever gotten the Oprah seal of approval and is as close to a spinoff of Oprah as there'll ever be," said Bill Carroll, an analyst for media-buying firm Katz Television in New York.
However, the competitive afternoon time slot may put Dr. Phil up against other established talk or courtroom shows or even
a network soap opera, depending on the market.
Because stations are forking over substantial fees for McGraw's show, Carroll said, there's "huge pressure" for it to be a quick success.
That doesn't mean he must immediately produce Oprahsized top ratings.
But there should be evidence that McGraw is, for instance, beating the competition or drawing bigger numbers than whatever he replaced, Carroll said.
McGraw doesn't apologize for his blunt, quick-hit approach to counseling, so removed from the standard therapy he once offered in private practice.
"Is there another layer to the onion? Sure," he says in an interview. "But you could spend a year figuring out why you do something and when you get through with that you're going to have to deal with how to change it. ... In the meantime, stop screaming at that little boy."
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11 Cheerleader's yell
14 Preminger classic
15 Rear
16 Lyric poem
17 Of an arm bone
18 Slobber
19 Ms. Thurman
20 Identified wrongly
22 Keaton or Crabbe
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25 Final part
26 Functional undergarment
29 Evil spell
30 Cry of discovery
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44 Balance-sheet item
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56 Weather prediction
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61 Trimming tool
63 Scoundrel
64 Check addition
65 Prongs
66 Prophetic signs
67 Sultry
68 Musical exercise piece
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4 Seventh planet
5 Balcony part
6 "As You Like It" forest
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