'Dr. Oz' show ending next month, as star runs for Senate

NEW YORK – U.S. Senate campaigner Mehmet Oz volition extremity his “Dr. Oz” syndicated speech amusement adjacent month, and producers volition regenerate it with a cooking amusement featuring his daughter.

The “Dr. Oz” show, successful its 13th season, volition aerial its past occurrence connected Jan. 14, Sony Pictures Television said connected Monday.

The bosom surgeon and speech amusement big is moving for the U.S. Senate arsenic a Republican successful Pennsylvania. Television stations successful Philadelphia, New York City and Cleveland that are seen successful Pennsylvania had already taken “Dr. Oz” disconnected the air, for fearfulness that the Federal Communications Commission's “equal time” rules would let rival candidates to question akin aerial time.

In galore parts of the country, “Dr. Oz” volition beryllium replaced by “The Good Dish,” a operation talk-cooking amusement wherever hosts Daphne Oz, Gail Simmons and Jamika Pessoa volition service up a crockery of the day. Producers boasted it would beryllium “the astir amusive you tin person successful the room without having to bash the dishes.”

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The amusement is an outgrowth of a play conception connected “Dr. Oz,” overmuch similar Oz's tv vocation got an aboriginal boost from Oprah Winfrey.

Sony said it has commitments to aerial “The Good Dish” successful stations representing 90% of the nation's population.

“The Good Dish” begins Jan. 17, Sony said.

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