Philip David Segal (born 1962 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England[ 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.]
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.[
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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. A week later, plans for a 1990 season of Doctor Who were aborted while the BBC searched for an American company to make a new series as a joint venture.[Doctor Who Magazine Eighth Doctor Special, Panini Comics 2003]
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.
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, ), the making-of book about the movie.
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.[
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After a period working at Bunim-Murray Productions as Executive Vice-President, Segal joined Original Productions in 2006 as an executive producer.
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