The manufacturing of Physician Odyssey has hit uneven waters. Three former crew members from the ABC sequence have sued twentieth Tv and Disney over alleged sexual harassment on set.
Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland, and Ava Steinbrenner filed the swimsuit on Friday, Might 30, in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, based on Selection. They alleged that former Physician Odyssey assistant prop grasp Tyler Patton would topic them to “sexual jokes, innuendos, feedback, sexual gestures, and pictures,” and so they accused him of “undesirable touching,” together with “overtly grabbing a visiting feminine worker’s buttocks.”
In a single instance listed within the lawsuit, Patton allegedly despatched prop division workers a hyperlink that appeared to result in a political information story however as a substitute led to a sexually specific photograph. Patton additionally allegedly informed one of many plaintiffs, “Come over right here and open your mouth, right here’s the worm.”
The plaintiffs claimed Patton’s alleged habits would occur “every day and regularly within the presence of administration.” They usually alleged that Disney and Tammie Patton, Tyler’s spouse and the lead prop grasp on the present, employed him with “data that prior allegations of sexual harassment had been lodged.”
Selection notes that Tyler was beforehand accused of sexual harassment and undesirable pertaining to the set of Home in a 2010 lawsuit towards Common Community Tv.
On one event on the Physician Odyssey set, Tyler allegedly mentioned, “If I wasn’t f***ing the boss, I’d be fired,” based on the lawsuit.
Tyler in the end was terminated after the plaintiffs complained about him to human assets, the swimsuit says. However then Tammie allegedly “started to interact in retaliatory habits,” the plaintiffs mentioned.
Later, your complete Physician Odyssey props division was laid off in what the plaintiffs mentioned was an effort by the defendants to “keep away from having to cope with any remaining 27 employee-relations points tied to Tyler Patton’s and Tammie Patton’s misconduct,” based on the swimsuit.
The lawsuit additionally alleges that Disney “blacklisted” the plaintiffs “in retaliation for bringing ahead their good-faith complaints.”
Representatives for Disney and twentieth TV declined to touch upon the lawsuit when contacted by Deadline.
Physician Odyssey premiered final fall on ABC, with Joshua Jackson enjoying a luxurious cruise ship’s onboard medic. ABC has but to announce whether or not the medical drama has been canceled or renewed for a second season.