Warner Bros. Discovery has been sued by Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe, who alleges that the network is refusing to pay him certain streaming royalties and is misinterpreting his deal to shortchange him on other payments.
Rowe, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in New York federal court, claims he hasn’t seen some payments when the show was licensed to multiprogram distributors, like DirectTV and YouTubeTV, in violation of his deal.
Dirty Jobs, which was nominated for three Emmys, had an eight season-long run on Discovery, with the network rebooting the series in 2022. In deals struck in 2008 and 2011, Lab Rat, Rowe’s production banner, secured ratings bonuses for linear airings of the show on Discovery-owned networks, a say in certain areas of distribution and the right to share in profits from various third party deals, according to the complaint.
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