In a hearing this morning downtown in Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Wendy Chang issued what she called a “soft tentative” ...

A decision on Warner Bros. Discovery's motion to dismiss a lawsuit from the Michael Crichton estate from the Michael Crichton ...

The estate of Michael Crichton, the late novelist who created ER in the 1990s, is suing the TV studio claiming the new series was ...

You see, ER creator Michael Crichton's widow Sherri Crichton sued Warner Bros. in November over the show’s very likeness. The Crichton estate alleges that The Pitt creator R. Scott Gemmill took ...

An ongoing legal battle pits the new Max medical drama The Pitt against the hit NBC series ER, but are the two shows really all that similar?

Noted writer Michael Crichton’s widow Sherri Crichton has filed a lawsuit against the series. It says The Pitt was basically a rehashed version of a planned sequel to the acclaimed medical drama ...

Writer Michael Crichton wrote the pilot script for “ER” and his estate — led by his widow Sherri Crichton — has sued Warner Bros. Television, calling “The Pitt” an unauthorized rebrand ...