Get ready for a lot more Dr. Phil. The syndicated daytime talk has been renewed through the 2013-2014, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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.

Dr. Phil is facing a second sexual harassment lawsuit. Another woman has come forward alleging she was assaulted at the hands of the small screen self-help guru.

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.”

Dr. Phil has been slammed with a lawsuit from a woman alleging the TV shrink groped her during a therapy session in 2007.

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Just call him Grandpa McGraw! Dr. Phil McGraw is set to make a big announcement on his show today.

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.”

What we wouldn’t give to have been a fly on the wall backstage at last month’s Daytime Emmy Awards. Word on the Celebrity Snitch Circuit claims small screen headshrinker Dr. Phil McGraw had a cow when the Emmy gods snubbed his daytime series in favor of the celeb-studded hit hosted by former supermodel Tyra Banks.

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.”
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