Science rules, and Bill Nye is hoping that a judge will do the same as he takes the Walt Disney Company to court over his classic series, Bill Nye the Science Guy.
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According to Deadline, Nye is suing Disney and a host of subsidiaries for over $37 million, claiming that he didn’t get his fair share of the profits generated by Science Guy.
“Plaintiff is informed and believes and thereon alleges that as a direct and proximate result of the Defendants’ breach of fiduciary duty, Plaintiff has suffered damages in the amount of not less than Nine Million Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Five Hundred Sixty dollars (USD $9,350,565.00), the final amount to be proven at trial,” the complaint states.
“Plaintiff is further informed and believes and thereon alleges that the Defendants, by breaching their fiduciary duties, enriched themselves, at the expense of the Plaintiff and the BNSG Owners,” the complaint continues, “obtaining ill-gotten profits of not less than Twenty Eight Million Fifty One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Five dollars (USD$28,051,695.00)[.]”
The 28-page lawsuit, which Nye filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, goes on to say that the host received a check in April for $585,000 as his share of the profits from the show. He later received a letter that said the math was wrong, and he actually owed Buena Vista TV almost $500,000.
Nye claims that he stopped receiving payments from the show in July 2008.
During Bill Nye the Science Guy‘s initial run from 1994 to 1999, it was nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, winning 19.
