After Physician Odyssey‘s irritating Season 1 finale within the spring 2025 TV schedule, many of the buzz round ABC’s cruise ship medical drama had centered on Season 2 renewal prospects and John Oliver weighing in. Now, three former members of the crew have filed swimsuit in opposition to each Disney and manufacturing firm twentieth Century Fox, alleging sexual harassment and wrongful termination, amongst different complaints.
Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland and Ava Steinbrenner had been members of the Props Division on Physician Odyssey in “late spring/early summer season 2024,” based on the lawsuit filed on Could 30 in Los Angeles Superior Court docket (by way of Selection). The record of complaints included within the swimsuit are sexual harassment; failure to stop harassment; retaliation; wrongful termination; and negligent hiring, supervision, and retention. The three plaintiffs are in search of a jury trial.
The complaints as listed within the submitting originate from Tammie Patton being employed because the Prop Grasp of Physician Odyssey early on whereas husband Tyler Patton was employed as Assistant Prop Grasp, giving the married couple route over the three girls’s schedules, assignments, self-discipline, and extra.
The swimsuit alleges that Disney, twentieth, and Tammie Patton knowingly employed Tyler Patton regardless of prior allegations of sexual harassment, intoxication, and “participating in intercourse on set” when he supervised the Props Division of Fox’s Home, the favored medical drama that starred Hugh Laurie and ran for eight seasons from 2004-2012. A lawsuit claiming as a lot in opposition to Patton (and others) is alleged to have been filed on the time.
The swimsuit goes on to allege that the Physician Odyssey Props Division underneath the supervision of the Pattons was “an illegal den of sexual harassment and retaliation” from Tyler Patton and male buddies. In accordance with this declare, the harassment took the type of sexual jokes, feedback, innuendos, feedback, gestures, photographs, and undesirable touching. Tammi Patton is alleged to have ignored the harassment in addition to retaliated in opposition to the plaintiffs for his or her complaints. Third-party witnesses reportedly can corroborate claims made by the three girls.
Tyler Patton was in the end fired, resulting in Tammie Patton allegedly ramping up retaliation in opposition to the ladies. Disney and twentieth are claimed to have taken the “‘straightforward’ method out selecting to get rid of not solely the wrongoers” – a.ok.a. each of the Pattons – but in addition “the entire remaining staff within the Props Division” in late August 2024 underneath the guise of layoffs. Their positions had been reportedly then full of new hires, except Don Bracken, who had been introduced in to interchange Tyler. Moreover, the ladies who filed the swimsuit declare to have been blacklisted from initiatives at Disney and twentieth.
In accordance with Deadline on the night that information of the lawsuit went public, representatives for each Disney and twentieth declined to touch upon the state of affairs. On the time of writing, it isn’t clear how (or if) the lawsuit will have an effect on the way forward for Physician Odyssey itself. The medical drama is at present ABC’s solely scripted present to not be renewed or cancelled, with the primary season streaming in full with a Hulu subscription.