Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe showrunner of “Key & Peele” filed a class action lawsuit on Thursday accusing the Writers Guild of America of agreeing to a secret deal that shorted him out of streaming residuals from the show.Shortly after the show ended its five-year run in 2015, Comedy Central made the entire series — more than 300 sketches — available on its website.In the lawsuit, showrunner Jay Martel alleges that Viacom systematically underpaid residuals — or paid nothing at all — from those streams, and from streams on other ad-supported platforms.
The complaint alleges that the company did the same thing with other Comedy Central shows, including “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” and “Tosh.0.” The Writers Guild of America has.
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