A television executive who said he helped Emmy Award-winning producer Mark Burnett re-pitch the concept for “Survivor” after major networks snubbed it is fighting to collect millions of dollars of the reality show’s profits, the Wall Street Journal reported today. In court papers, Layne Leslie Britton says that he is owed at least $14 million in TV show revenue — an amount that was supposed to flow from entertainment consultant Conrad Riggs and his company, Cloudbreak Entertainment Inc. Riggs, who was getting a cut of Burnett’s “Survivor” profits, broke his promise to share some of that money, Britton’s lawyers said. The legal battle, waged in state court since 2012, is now in the hands of a bankruptcy judge after Mr. Riggs put Cloudbreak into chapter 11 protection on Dec. 1, just a few hours before a trial on the dispute was scheduled to start.
