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CBS is getting its day in court to get a temporary restraining order that would stop the June 18 premiere of ABC’s Glass House. Judge Gary Feess today set a hearing for first thing Friday morning for the networks’ lawyers to plead their case before him. The judge could make a ruling at the time to stop production on the ABC show and prevent the premiere from airing. This comes one day after CBS responded to ABC’s opposition on Monday to the TRO request that CBS filed last week. The two networks have engaged in a series of legal shots since CBS sued ABC over Glass House on May 10. CBS says Glass House is a blatant rip-off of its Big Brother, a claim ABC rejects. The announcement of the TRO hearing comes the same day CBS asked ABC to turn over hundreds of pages of documents, emails and even tweets on Glass House as part of the ongoing discovery process (read that request here). CBS is represented by Scott Edelman, Michael Seitz, Theane Evangelis Kapur and Blaine Evanson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. ABC is represented by Glenn Pomerantz, Jonathan Altman and Carolyn Hoecker Luedtke of Munger, Tolles & Olson.
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The judge can invite both networks lawyers into his chambers and tell them the bidding starts at five million dollars. Whichever network offers the judge the highest bribe will get their way. Both networks have incentive to bid as high as 10 million so the judge can make a lot of money very quickly if he’s smart. Go for it judge nobody will know. The lawyers can’t complain because they will participate in the bidding. Once they do that everyone is in the same boat facing disbarment and prosecution. Nobody will testify they would be implicating themself if they did.
ABC should cease the live stream of this show until this is all cleared up in the court system. ABC…again…CBS is doing you guys a favor by preventing this slop from airing and tanking in the ratings. Just cease doing this show now and avoid all this.
Was Lost in Space the same as Star Trek? They were both space operas, sharing air waves… Both sides might argue, but I liked them both. In many ways, the actors made the differences. Guy Williams could not have been Captain Kirk; nor could Shatner have been Dr. Robinson. Which one was better might have depended a lot on how old you were. As a child, I wanted to be Will Robinson. As a teenager, I wanted to be a Vulcan. Today, I’m just glad we have the technology to have cyber-debates about this stuff because that’s about the only kind of space I’m ever going to see. LOL — I think we should all just abandon the networks completely and watch what we want online. I’m tired of a suit deciding what and when I’m going to watch whatever it is they throw at us, get us interested in a new show, and then just cancel it because they don’t have a bazillion viewers. It’s the writers and the actors that make a show a classic, not a network or a studio. You-tube forever!!
I think CBS is fearing this show