February 8, 2025
Actress Gina Rodriguez co-hosted the failed sport present with Shaq.
ABC might be paying over $460,000 to contestants who had been listed as a part of the sport present “Fortunate 13,” hosted by basketball star Shaquille O’Neal and actress Gina Rodriguez. The payout is ready to happen after the corporate heading the sport present declared chapter.
“Fortunate 13” debuted final July with Shaq and Rodriguez as hosts, airing on ABC underneath unconventional circumstances. The UK-based manufacturing firm, Studio 1, funded the present upfront earlier than its success, in trade for a share of ABC’s promoting and product placement income tied to the present.
Each the contestants and prize winners, in addition to Rodriguez and Shaq, had been by no means paid for his or her time on “Fortunate 13.” In accordance to the Impartial, 13 contestants are owed prize cash, with particular person totals starting from $3,750 to $125,000, totaling round $461,500.
Nevertheless, “Fortunate 13” fell wanting expectations and didn’t usher in almost as a lot income as Studio 1 needed. It was not renewed for Season Two after the conclusion of the primary season. Studio 1 and the opposite two holding firms concerned, Fortunate 13 Holdings and Studio 13 Leisure, declared chapter quickly after.
Legally, ABC is underneath no obligation legally to pay the contestants after the manufacturing firm goes bankrupt, however the community has introduced that the contestants might be getting their earned prize cash regardless of the circumstances.
After Studio 1 filed for chapter on the finish of final 12 months, the CEO — Adrian Woolfe — defined to Deadline, “We’re within the strategy of taking proactive protecting steps to restructure the Studio 1 enterprise and to unlock and shield the worth of the now-proven Fortunate 13 IP.”
He continued, “Moderately than it being a direct fee, the distinctive industrial mannequin on which the debut collection was launched within the US was underpinned by promoting revenues which given well-publicized market circumstances regrettably, however unavoidably, fell acutely wanting forecasts.”
The premise of “Fortunate 13” featured contestants being requested 13 completely different true or false trivia questions after which predicting what number of appropriate they obtained out of the 13. The ABC present had a $1 million jackpot.
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