Bill Nye Files $37 Million Suit Against Disney Over Royalties Instead, it “encouraged Mr. Nye to launch an audit that WDC had no intention of ever accommodating.” Mr. Nye did try to start an audit in 2013, according to the court papers, but he said that Walt Disney stonewalled him by, among other things, not providing requested documents. Bill Nye filed a $37 million lawsuit against the Walt Disney Company and a number of its subsidiaries on Thursday, alleging that he was deprived of $9 million in profits from his show, “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” which originally ran from 1993 to 1998 on PBS. A spokesperson for Buena Vista Television said in a statement: “This lawsuit is a publicity ploy and we look forward to vigorously defending it.” The best of what to watch and where to watch it, delivered to your inbox twice a week. The dispute stems from the royalties that Mr. Nye said he was supposed to make from the show, which the lawsuit, posted online by Deadline, says was supposed to be 16.5 percent of the net profits. The lawsuit’s assertions include fraudulent concealment (that Disney and its subsidiaries knew of profits from the show that they kept from Mr. Nye), breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.
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