E! News Online reports that CBS/Viacom has gone forward with a lawsuit against ABC/Disney regarding its claim that the British show I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!, which ABC plans to bring to America in 2003, is a complete rip-off of the intellectual property of its hit Survivor. Viacom seeks to stop the show and to collect substantial punitive damages from Disney as well.
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Additionally, E! reports that Mark Burnett, executive producer of Survivor and Eco-Challenge, will oversee production of a new WB sitcom, about a father who takes his teenage children to Europe to meet his new fiancee. We'd wager that the sitcom will be a lot more fun to watch than Burnett's show Combat Missions was....
