'The Real' Talk Show: Famous Actress Sues The Show, Accuses It Of Stealing Her Concept
The Real is facing more drama roughly two months after letting Tamar Braxton go.
This time, actress Tatyana Ali has filed a lawsuit against the daytime talk show. She has accused it of stealing the show after she pitched the idea to the production company just six months before it began its test run, Deadline reported Friday.
Apparently Ali brought the concept to show executives in December of 2012 but they “decided to decline.”
Still, it later debuted as The Real in the summer of 2013.
Ali decided to take legal action and filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday.
“With a great deal of disappointment and completely disbelief, [Ali] witnessed [her] concept come to life on major network television at the hands of the Defendant Corporations.
Deadline obtained the documents that outline the lawsuit.
It said that Ali wanted to start a show “which featured an eclectic group of engaging female celebrity hosts, each aged within their 20’s and 30’s,” and added that, “the executives engaged in multiple telephone discussion and one in-person, culminating ‘pitch’ meeting.”
She also teamed up with Judge Greg Mathis’s production team. Still, Telepictures “declined”, which is said to have surprised Ali considering the number of times she met with them. She was reportedly even more disappointed after Telepictures launched The Real.
The documents also state that Mathis agrees The Real is a “direct” concept birthed from Ali’s ideas.
Warner Bros., which owns Telepictures, has yet to comment.
Check out the documents here.
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