Is Televised Self-help Taking the Place of Religion?
I think God is a big sassy black woman, and She sent Oprah down to spread the love. Let's be honest here. The last guy She sent wasn't too media sav...
I think God is a big sassy black woman, and She sent Oprah down to spread the love. Let's be honest here. The last guy She sent wasn't too media sav...
Hollywood Reporter | Kimberly Nordyke | Posted 05.22.2008 | Media
CBS Television Distribution is revving up its syndicated development slate for fall 2009. The distributor is developing a talk show that would be hos...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.11.2008 | Entertainment
This Sunday's Parade is their annual feature on what people earn. In addition to regular jobs, they round up some celebrity pay packages for ogling. F...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
Elisabeth Hasselbeck is the worst interviewer on TV and Larry King is the least sexy television host, according to the results of an AOL TV poll. The...
AP | Posted 01.30.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Television's "Dr. Phil" McGraw says he regrets talking about Britney Spears' mental health after visiting her in the hospital, but di...
Sherman Yellen | Posted 01.17.2008 | Living
We think there is a quick fix and that the village scold can shake a finger, wag a tongue, and voila, the troubled, the damaged, and the lost will be made whole again.
Mona Ackerman | Posted 01.17.2008 | Living
Q: So, Dr. Mona, what do you think about Dr. Phil? Is he a real psychologist? A: The question is in the air. It is being asked of me wherever I go ...
Bonnie Fuller | Posted 01.09.2008 | Entertainment
The question is — with no law on the books that can force her to get mental help and with neither family nor friends able to prevail upon her — can anyone save Britney from herself?
AP | Sandy Cohen | Posted 01.05.2008 | Entertainment
"Boyfriend" Update The British press reports that Britney's paparazzo boyfriend Adnan Ghalib (who is British and married) is trying to sell intimate p...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 12.26.2007 | Media
It's a toss-up! Us blames money-grubbing stage mama Lynne Spears. Star blames alleged bed-jumping non-good-girl lying liar Jamie Lynn. Wait a second...
New York Post | Michael Starr | Posted 12.26.2007 | Media
"Dr. Phil" McGraw thinks Lynne Spears, mother to Britney Spears and her knocked-up younger sister, "Zoey 101" star Jamie Lynn Spears, is doing a fine ...
AP | JOHN ROGERS | Posted 12.08.2007 | Media
Roger M. King, the CBS and King World Productions executive who helped bring stars including Oprah Winfrey, Alex Trebek and "Dr. Phil" McGraw to telev...
Sherman Yellen | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Life can't often be cured, sometimes it must be endured. But how do we endure a madman at the head of our government?
Bob Thompson | Posted 12.04.2007 | Entertainment
When they put that little "Oprah's choice" sticker on the cover of a book, it instantly becomes a bestseller. It's not yet clear what happens when they put the sticker on a presidential candidate.
AP | Posted 11.27.2007 | Media
A teenager who flew secretly to the Middle East last year to be with a man she met on MySpace has gone on television to end the relationship. Katheri...
August J. Pollak | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

TV Week | Chris Pursell | Posted 10.08.2007 | Media
"The Doctors," a spinoff of syndicated hit "Dr. Phil," is in active development by CBS Television Distribution. The new syndie show will feature an e...
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Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 07.02.2008 | Media