Philip David Segal

Philip Segal
Born	1962 (age 55–56) Essex, England
Occupation	Television producer

Philip David Segal (born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England in 1962) is a 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.

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 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.

While at Amblin he got involved in attempts to bring back the British sci fi series, Doctor Who. 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.

In 2000, Segal co-wrote the book Doctor Who: Regeneration with Gary Russell (HarperCollins, ISBN ), the making-of book of the 1996 Doctor Who television movie.

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