Partner Trinity Broadcasting and Phil McGraw's Merit Street are suing each other in bankruptcy court over a purported 10-year deal under which Dr. Phil would make 160 new 90-minute episodes of his show.

In a case of careful what you pray for, Phil McGraw is having a not-so-great week. On Monday, the man Oprah introduced us to years ago as Dr. Phil began to try to halt the month old Chapter 11 proceedings of his short-lived Merit Street Media after finding the cost of going bankrupt too expensive,