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AUTHOR SUES PRODUCERS OF ‘GIRLFRIENDS’ SPINOFF: Woman claims “The Game” is too similar to her book, ‘Game.’
*An author has named television exec Mara Brock Akil in a $40 million lawsuit alleging that her new CW series, “The Game,” is too similar in concept to an unpublished novel she wrote, titled “Game.”
Filed Sept. 14 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, author Staci Robinson seeks $40 million from Akil, other producers on the show, the CW and its owners. Robinson also seeks a temporary restraining order to prevent the network from airing the series, which is scheduled to premiere next Sunday (10/1).
In her lawsuit, Robinson says she passed Akil a manuscript of her novel in 2001, when she interviewed for a writers assistant job at Kelsey Grammer's Grammnet Prods. Akil and Grammnet are named as defendants in the suit, along with CW and its owners, CBS and Warner Bros.
Both the novel and show follow a woman who is torn between her college dreams and a love interest in the NFL, according to the suit.
