Bill Nye the Science Guy , whose eponymic show wrapped up two decades ago in 1997 but been air in syndication ever since , has some unfinished business with Disney .
Per theL.A. Times , Nye filed a ill in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday alleging Disney ’s Buena Vista Television fudged the numbers on his series Bill Nye , the Science Guy , depriving him and the show ’s other carbon monoxide gas - owners of their contractually bind 50 percent cut of all nett profits . According to Nye , he and the other possessor of the show are owed $ 28.1 million , while he himself was shorted $ 9.4 million .
The suit aver Nye became suspicious Disney was not doing right by him in 2008 , when Buena Vista Television notified him it was reducing a anterior yr ’s profit percentage from $ 585,123 to $ 496,111 . The odd adjustment led Nye to look into whether Disney had wangle the book during other wage time period .
AsCNN Moneynoted , Nye trust the party act in risky religion when he tried to sort out the subject with them now , and deliberately sought to obfuscate royalties earned by the show .
concord to the Times , a representative for the web called the causa a “ publicity ploy , ” adding “ We look forward to vigorously maintain it . ”
[ L.A. Times ]
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