There will be no shortage of medical discussion in daytime for the next couple years. B&C is reporting that CBS Television Distribution has renewed The Doctors for seasons three and four, taking it through the 2011-12 season.
The Doctors is hosted by Dr. Travis Stork, an emergency-room physician and a former contestant on The Bachelor. The daytime program uses a panel format, with Stork consulting regularly with three other doctors — Ob/Gyn Dr. Lisa Masterson, plastic surgeon and ENT specialist Dr. Andrew Ordon, and pediatrician Dr. James Sears. Guests are often featured, including Dr. Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil) who’s also an executive producer.
The two-year series renewal has been reportedly cleared in 91% of the country, including 48 of the top 50 markets.
Joe DiSalvo, CTD’s president of sales, said “The Doctors is a show that’s been working across the country… It started out at a certain point and little by little, month by month, it’s been doing better and better.”
According to B&C, The Doctors averaged a 2.0 live-plus-same-day household rating last month, an 18% increase over last year’s viewership. That’s the largest percentage gain of any show in syndication right now.
DiSalvo noted, “These days, when a station has a show that’s working, they want to keep it.”
What do you think? Are you glad that The Doctors is sticking around? Is the show worth watching?
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on todays showthe articule was on stroke and the exercises in virtule reality
Really glad that The Doctors will be on the air. I watch it whenever I can. Would really like to see a show dedicated to Bladder Cancer.
I Love to watch The Doctors. Keep it on the air.
If Carman is so bored why does she keep watching. Th Show has a lots of information that I can share with yourger people. I am 83 and in very good health(no medicine,have
not been to a Doctor since 2002,eat right,walk a mile& half each day) The show help to
do healthly things naturally as God wants us to do.
TOO BAD, SHOW IS BORING. THEY GO OVER THE SAME THING ALL THE TIME. ABOUT AS BAD AS DR. PHIL AND OPRAH.
pretty cool ..
now we guarantee watching The Doctors till 2012 ..