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{{short description|British-American television producer (born 1964)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{BLP sources|date=February 2010}}
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Philip David Segal (born in
Southend-on-Sea,
Essex, EnglandBOOK, Burk, Graeme, Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You DieâAn Unofficial Companion, 2013, ECW Press, 319â321,
weblink Robert Smith, 9781770411661, in 1962) is a British-American television producer. He emigrated to the
United States "at the age of fifteen or sixteen", where he gained a degree in Telecommunications from
San Diego State University. After graduating he started work in the US television industry, first as a casting assistant and then as a literary agent, working at Fenton Feinberg Casting and the ICM TV Literary Department training program.WEB, TWIN PEAKS Series Retrospective: Episodes 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, University of Southern California School of Cinema, In 1985, he was appointed Director of Drama Development at
Columbia Pictures. He then moved to
ABC Television as a programming executive, and says he worked on shows such as
Twin Peaks,
Thirtysomething and
China Beach.In 1989, he went to the BBC where he had a chat about the TV industry and asked about work on different shows, one of the ones he was most interested in was science fiction series
Doctor Who. Nothing came of this conversation but a week later
Doctor Who was officially cancelled while the BBC searched for an American company to make a new series as a joint venture.In 1991, he joined
Steven Spielberg's
Amblin Entertainment, where he became Vice President of Amblin Television, overseeing the production of
seaQuest DSV,
Earth 2 and
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.NEWS, Philip Segal,
weblink 5 November 2013, Variety, December 27, 2000, Segal contacted the BBC, applying for the distribution rights of a new series of
Doctor Who under Amblin. Collaborating with fellow English expatriate
Peter Wagg (producer of
Max Headroom) they created the early drafts of what eventually became the
Doctor Who television movie in 1996. Segal received an executive producer credit on the movie. In 2000, Segal co-wrote the book
Doctor Who: Regeneration with
Gary Russell (HarperCollins, {{ISBN|0-00-710591-6}}), the making-of book about the movie.WEB, Maddox, David, Doctor Who Regeneration: The Story Behind The Revival Of A Television Legend (review),
weblink The SF Site, 5 November 2013, 2000, Segal won the best director of a short film award from the NY International Film & Video Festival in 2000 for his short story The Other Side of Monday. Other directing credits include: a single episode of
Mutant X according to IMDB and one episode of
Andromeda for the Tribune Action Hours, and the feature film
Hobbs End which he also co-wrote with Eric Truheart. In 2000 he became senior VP for scripted programming and development at Tribune Entertainment, overseeing
Andromeda,
Beastmaster and other shows.After a period working at Bunim-Murray Productions as Executive Vice-President, Segal joined Original Productions in 2006 as an executive producer.WEB, Philip Segal,
weblink Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 6 November 2013, {{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Original in 2012 but left the company in 2017 when Original's parent company, Fremantle, decided not to renew his contract. His credits include
Ice Road Truckers and
Ax Men for
The History Channel,
The Colony,
Pitchmen,
(Swords: Life on the Line) for
Discovery Channel,
1000 Ways to Die for
Spike,
Black Gold for
Tru TV,
Wildlife Warriors and
Cut in Half for
National Geographic Channel, and
Storage Wars for
A&E. Segal lives in Glendale, California and in Medford, Oregon.
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