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Lawsuit settled in Fox Business reality show case

Fox has settled a lawsuit that resulted after Fox Business Network ordered 26 episodes of a reality series and then cancelled three months later, reports Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood.

Patten writes, “The producer whose credits include History’s Pawn Stars filed suit in July 2015 in New York Supreme Court seeking $4.5 million in damages after the deal went south.

“‘Leftfield Pictures of NY, LLC and Fox News Network, LLC today announced an amicable and confidential settlement concerning their litigation filed in the Supreme Court of New York,’ the companies said in a just-released joint statement. ‘No party has admitted any wrongdoing or liability and there has not been any court finding as to the merits of the lawsuit. The parties have also agreed not to make any additional comments about the terms of the settlement. Leftfield and Fox News hope to work together in the future.’

“In the suit, Leftfield claimed FBN had agreed to a deal for the series which was already in production when the network pulled the plug and refused to pay. FBN later filed a response that said Leftfield misrepresented some of the show’s participants.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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