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Fri Dec 6, 2019, 03:32 AM Dec 2019

Bill Nye's $28-million profit fight with Disney can go to trial, judge rules

Source: Los Angeles Times

Bill Nye’s $28-million profit fight with Disney can go to trial, judge rules

By ANOUSHA SAKOUI | STAFF WRITER
DEC. 5, 2019 2:29 PM

Bill Nye, of the popular TV alter ego the Science Guy, has been given the green light to take his case against Walt Disney Co. for $28 million in damages to a jury trial.

A judge in Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled that a 10-day trial would take place in May, when Nye can bring his claims that Disney improperly held on to millions of dollars in profits from his popular 1990s TV show that ran on PBS and in national syndication.

The dispute is the latest in a string of high-profile profit participation cases winding through the Los Angeles courts.

The case dates to 2017, when Nye filed suit against Disney, alleging that he and the other owners of the show were shortchanged and questioning Disney’s Buena Vista Television accounting over the series.

Buena Vista Television struck a deal to distribute, market and promote the series starting in 1993, according to the suit. Nye and his partners say that under the deal, they were entitled to 50% of net profits from the series and allege the Burbank-based studio shortchanged them by $28.1 million. Nye claims he personally is owed at least $9.4 million, according to filings.

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Read more: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2019-12-05/bill-nyes-28-million-profit-fight-with-disney-can-go-to-trial-judge-rules
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