The three-year renewal will take Dr. Phil, which debuted in September 2002, through its 12th season.

Host Phil “Tell It Like It Is” McGraw is the subject of two recent lawsuits filed by former patients, who claim they were sexually abused while under the care of the shrink.

Last week, Shirley Dieu filed suit in Los Angeles claiming the TV star — real name Phil McGraw –touched her breast and forced her to stay in his office with a naked man in 2007.

Dr. Phil has denied any wrongdoing, but has now been hit with a second sex suit from a woman who claims Phil forced her to share a room with a naked man. According to TMZ.com, Crystal Matchett filed papers at Los Angeles County Superior Court which claims Dr. Phil forced her to be in the same room with a “completely naked man, who was exposing his entire naked body, genitals and all.”

Shirley Dieu alleges that Dr. Phil full name Philip McGraw – forced her to “be in the same room with a completely naked live man while he exposed his entire naked body, genitals and all.” Dieu filed suit in Los Angeles Country Superior Court on Wednesday claiming the TV personality touched her breast and held her captive in his office.

The suit goes on to claim “Tell It Like IT Is Phil” — whose rise to fame began with a series of guest appearances on Oprah — tried to “brainwash” Dieu, who was allegedly “blocked by the staff to prevent her from leaving,” according to TMZ.com.

Dieu is seeking unspecified damages.

The TV shrink is “shocked and thrillled” to announced that his oldest son Jay and his daughter-in-law Erica Dahm are expecting their first child. This will make Dr. Phil and wife Robin first-time grandparents.

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“We were actually vacationing with the whole family and were in Elba, Italy,” Dr. Phil, 59, told PEOPLE Tuesday. “Jay and [his wife] Erica had discreetly gotten several home pregnancy tests the day before in France, and they sat us all down in Elba and said they had some exciting news! ‘We are pregnant!’” he added.

“The day before Robin had said to me, ‘I just get the feeling that Erica is pregnant. I swear she is some kind of mind-reader, but I guess women know these things.”

Despite wife Robin’s attempts to console him, Phil was livid when The Tyra Banks Show edged for the Best Informative Talk Show prize, The National Enquirer reports in its Sept. 21 issue.
“Dr. Phil was upset,” says an eyewitness, who was on hand for the self-help guru’s backstage meltdown. “He thought he was a shoo-in to win….It seems like his best days are behind him.”

In fact, Phil was so furious, he refused his stunning competitor’s offer of a hug.

“After Tyra won, she walked over to give him a hug backstage, but he turned around and stalked off,” tattles the tipster. But with two Emmy wins to her credit, the lacefront-rockin’ diva– who also host The CW’s America’s Next Top Model — was not about to let Dr. Sourpuss spoil her evening. With a flip of her hair, “she leaned over to a pal, rolled her eyes, and said, ‘Whatever.’”

Dr. Phil, an Oprah protege, has helmed The Dr. Phil Show through the Queen of Talk’s Harpo Productions Company since the Fall of 2002. He’s never won an Emmy Award despite multiple nominations over the past several years. Dr. Phil earned Best Host nods in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007. The Dr. Phil Show was nominated for Best Informative Talk Show in 2007, 2008, and 2009.

“Tell It Like It Is Phil” will join the cast of Oprah’s 24th season premiere week Thursday, Sept. 17.

Expect Dr. Phil “set the record straight” and “bring viewers the story of a woman whose father is a serial killer,” according to a show press release.

Winfrey’s premiere week will also feature two days of Whitney Houston (Sept. 14 and 15), a show honoring the late Michael Jackson (Wednesday) and show live from New York, featuring Mariah Carey and Live! hosts Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa (Friday).

Sara Morrison was a shy college sophomore 25 years ago, but she is still haunted by what she says happened to her.

“Not a single day has gone by when I haven’t been affected by what Phil McGraw did to me. He profoundly affected the course of my life,” Morrison reveals in the August 17 issue of The National Enquirer, on newsstands this week.

“The world should know this man is a predator and a bully. He shouldn’t be telling Americans how to live their lives, how to improve themselves. I suffered from low self-esteem, and I was depressed, lonely and suicidal. Phil was extremely insistent that I call him all the time, and he would call me. He wanted to see me three or four times a week – as a patient.”

She recalls, “I suffered from low self-esteem, and Iwas depressed, lonely and suicidal. Phil was extremely insistent that I call him all the time, and he would call me.”

Sara says the nature of her relationship with the doctor — then-34 — changed the following summer, when he paid her to work as his intern, while still charging her as a patient.

“The first day I showed up for work, Phil had his hands all over me,” she recalled. “Phil would pull me down to sit in his lap while he talked on the phone to patients, other doctors, even his wife! He’d be running his hand up and down the inside of my thigh all the way up to my panties.”

Dr. Phil is desperate to have his life story played out in a big screen biopic — and you’ll never guess who the balding television shrink wants to play him! It’s none other than Hollywood hunk from way back George Clooney.

We hear the Oscar-nominated actor is reportedly being courted for the role of “Tell It Like It Is” Phil in a proposed film about his life — but if George’s lack of enthusiasm is any indication of his likeliness to take on the project, Phil better not hold his breath.

“Dr. Phil actually set up a meeting with George to pitch him on the idea,” according to The Globe. “George didn’t seem too overly excited, but did say he’d willing to read a script once it’s complicated and they’ll go from there.”

What do you think, guys? Can you see George Clooney as Dr. Phil? But if Dr. Phil gets George Clooney as his on-screen alter ego — I want Halle Berry as mine! It’s only fair….

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Last Fall, Octomom Nadya Suleman threatened to kill herself in a 911 call after one of her sons disappeared for a few minutes during a trip to the local park.

Now TV therapist Dr. Phil has a whole lot to say about Suleman’s ability to mother her fourteen children.

Phil, have we learned nothing from “BritneyGate 2008?” Television psychologist Dr. Phil is kicking of the seventh season of his nationally-syndicated talk show but that wasn’t the hot topic of conversation when the opinionated television psychologist sat down for an interview with TODAY’s Matt Lauer on Wednesday.

Phil shares his thoughts on the announcement that the seventeen-year-old daughter Republican VP candidate/”abstinence education only” advocate Sarah Palin is unmarried and pregnant with her first child.