Klugman sues NBC over 'Quincy' profits
Sat Mar 29, 6:57 AM ET
Former "Quincy, M.E." star Jack Klugman sued NBC Universal Friday, claiming the studio is lying about the show's profits and owes him money. Klugman, 85, played the crime-busting Dr. R. Quincy on the show from 1976 to 1983.
His 1976 contract with NBC entitles him and his company, Sweater Productions, to 25 percent of the show's "net profits," according to the suit filed in Superior Court. Klugman claims his copy of the contract was lost when his agent died, and NBC has refused to provide a copy.
The lawsuit aims to force NBC to divulge the contract and award Klugman attorneys' fees. It also asks the court to clarify the terms of the agreement.
"I recently heard that they made $250 million and it's still on TV in Germany. I don't want their money. I want my money," Klugman told The Associated Press. "I worked my tail off. I got up at four in the morning and stayed at the studio. I did rewrite, I edited."
Calls to NBC Universal Friday seeking comment Friday were not immediately returned.
NBC provided Klugman with an accounting statement showing the series had lost $66 million through 2006, according to the suit. However, Klugman said he believes NBC is lying, and that it made money.
....As a child of the 70's, it makes me feel good to know that Quincy is STILL on the case. For those of you to young to know the TV show quincy... It was kind of like CSI minus the special effects. Which meant there was more time for all the grandeur that was the 70's!
Also this is yet another example of how the entertainment business tries to cheat EVERYBODY! White, black, brown, red, yellow, khaki... I mean come on! QUINCY?! How does a TV show LOSE money 23 years AFTER it went of the air?
Go get 'em, Quincy. Go get 'em!
And since they're remaking everything else... How 'bout The NEW Quincy? They could do like they always do and just make the NEW Quincy a hot, young, woman. She could be his granddaughter... Wait... gotta go pitch a TV show...
2 comments:
Besides being an entertaining medical murder mystery (years before Diagnosis: Murder), I enjoyed seeing Obvious Ethnic Robert Ito as the long-suffering assistant Sam. Sam's main duty was keeping Dr. Astin occupied with hilariously baldfaced lies on Quincy's behalf.
I needed a lawyer with half the initiative of J. Klugman for my lawsuit.
You asked how a show loses money...
Sometimes I just can't take it. No justice in the legal system.
over and over
Money makes all the difference in this system. The individual hasn't got much of a chance.
I'ma go cry now.
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