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After it failed to block the Monday premiere of ABC’s The Glass House over similarities to its own Big Brother, CBS is hitting back with a tongue-in-cheek “press release” about new reality series Dancing On The Stars. Read the spoof announcement below. Meanwhile, the judge handling CBS’ request for a temporary…

UPDATE: CBS issued the following statement after today’s court hearing. “We appreciate the court’s continuing consideration of this case and our request for an injunction. Win, lose or draw on the temporary restraining order, we intend to proceed with our claims against Disney/ABC for copyright infringement and…

UPDATE – 2:55 PM ABC issued the following statement today in response to CBS’s lastest legal salvo to get a temporary restraining order against the production and June 18 debut of the reality series Glass House. CBS’s submission today underscores the frivolous nature of their claims.  This entire dispute apparently…

CBS is getting its day in court to get a temporary restraining order that would stop the June 18 premiere of ABC's Glass House. Judge Gary Feess today set a hearing for first thing Friday morning for the networks’ lawyers to plead their case before him. The judge could make a ruling at the time to stop production on…

CBS wasted no time replying to ABC's opposition to a temporary retraining order on its upcoming reality show Glass House. "The clear theft and use of CBS's material, coupled with the admitted destruction of emails, clearly warrants a TRO at this stage," read the 28-page reply filed this afternoon (read it here). "And A…

ABC has just filed its opposition to CBS' request for a temporary restraining order that would halt production on the reality show Glass House and prevent its June 18 premiere, for which ABC says it has already spent over $16 million in marketing. (You can read the filing here.) On May 10, CBS sued ABC and several…

Breaking … A federal judge today has denied ABC's efforts to slow down CBS' desire for a temporary restraining order to shut down alleged Big Brother rip-off Glass House. ABC now has until 5 PM Monday to file any opposition to the TRO request CBS filed late last night. Once ABC, who had asked for a more expedited…

With the June 18 premiere date for ABC’s new reality series Glass House looming, the legal scuffle over it between CBS and ABC has intensified. CBS at midnight filed a request for a temporary restraining order against ABC trying to block the Glass House debut after a judge-approved schedule for the discovery stage of…

UPDATE 12:15 AM  – As expected, CBS filed an application tonight for a temporary restraining order to "cease production of, and refrain from broadcasting, the show Glass House until the trial of this matter…" The 37-page document also adds that "if the Court is not willing to order Defendants to cease production of Gla…

The clock has partially run out on CBS' legal attempt to stop production and the June 18 premiere of ABC's new reality series Glass House, which CBS says is a rip-off of Big Brother. Today, a federal judge said he won't decide until at least June 15 the battling networks’ dispute over the discovery process in the…

ABC and CBS may be locked in a legal battle over whether Glass House is a rip-off of Big Brother, but that didn't stop ABC from naming the show's 14 contestants today. Glass House is scheduled to debut June 18, and a peek at the new reality series will be up on ABC.com on June 9 for viewers to begin voting on elements…

The striking similarities between ABC‘s recently announced summer reality series The Glass House and CBS‘ veteran Big Brother were not lost on CBS brass. Four days after ABC’ announcement, CBS has fired a legal letter to ABC warning them that proceeding with the show will likely result in a legal action against it…