Talk:Dr. Phil (TV series)

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Is the "Incident" really necessary?

Because it was in major media and is relevant to the understanding of the show, yes. Calwatch 03:47, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Season Five Premiere 2 reliability Dr. Phil 3 Spoofs 4 Scammers 5 Iraq 6 HIPAA 7 Incidents: Porn star problems

[edit] Season Five Premiere

This press release puts the date of the premiere of Season Five (the current season) of the show as September 18, 2006, not September 11, 2006, as the article states. It is true the episodes which aired the week of September 11-15 were new, while most of the shows which aired through June, July and August were repeats, but that's not uncommon for this show, which frequently airs new episodes of the previous season just prior to the season premiere. In Season Four, it aired five new episodes in July, four in August and six in September before the 9/18 premiere of Season Five. According to the official Website, the fourth season began on Wednesday, September 14, 2005 after twelve new episodes earlier that August and September - including two the Monday and Tuesday prior to that Wednesday premiere. Season Three began on September 13, 2004 after airing ten new episodes beginning August 30. And Season Two began on Friday, September 19, 2003, after all the shows in the week leading up to it (and all but one of the shows in the two weeks leading up to that) were new. -- JCaesar 06:07, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reliability Dr. Phil

This figure seemingly cuts out words like 'not' in footage : [1] Aleichem 15:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

For dutch-language speakers - victims sue Phil for more than 1 million dollars. http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/3252652/_Broers_Kalpoe_claimen_meer_dan_miljoen_van_Dr._Phil__.html?p=13,1

Aleichem (talk) 19:48, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spoofs

This list is incomplete, there are many more in the article on Dr Phil himself. Maybe these articles, or just the spoofs (references in popular culture) list, should be merged? 203.173.160.73 10:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scammers

I think the paragraph about the women scamming viewers should be in the Dr Phil (person) article. While the scam and sting were shown on the show, the scam was actually involveing Dr Phil and his wife Robin themselves and not the show. Naysie (my tildes key is broken)

[edit] Iraq

There was just now a story on NPR about how Dr. Phil is quite popular in Iraq. I notice that there's an Arabic interwiki in the article... AnonMoos 12:38, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HIPAA

Did Dr. Phil violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when he discussed Britney Spears' mental health issues? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.3.17.37 (talk) 14:28, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Incidents: Porn star problems

I'm planning to restore a paragraph under "Incidents" that was deleted on May 7, 2007 by Appollotiger who claimed that the reference cited was a "bad link." The New York Daily News article that documented this incident can be viewed in its original format on the Internet Archive at http://web.archive.org/web/20051231052936/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/313967p-268580c.html. The deleted paragraph was this:

• In a show that aired on May 2, 2005 the twin sisters Crystal and Jocelyn Potter appeared; Crystal claimed to want to "work" in the adult industry together with Jocelyn, who rejected the idea as repulsive. Brothel owner Dennis Hof was interviewed and stated that the two could make half a million dollars per year in his establishment. It turns out that the sister's testimony was less than truthful: since 2002 they have appeared as the "Potter sisters" in numerous porn movies together, and in 2003 they even appeared together with Hof in the porn movie "Goin' down at the Bunny Ranch".

Any comments or objections? Wikeye (talk) 01:58, 1 February 2008 (UTC)