CBS warns ABC not to air Big Brother clone The Glass House

CBS has sent ABC a cease-and-desist letter warning them not to air The Glass House this summer.

It turns out that The Glass House is being run by former Big Brother staff who the letter states are "privy to trade secrets and other confidential, proprietary information and signed broad and binding non-disclosure agreements in connection with Big Brother." I mean, the show obviously is a Big Brother knock off, so what did ABC expect?

That being said, I love controversy, so I hope ABC still airs it.

From THR:

CBS lawyers are threatening ABC over a recently announced reality show called Life in a Glass House, which is allegedly a direct rip-off of the long-running hit Big Brother.

In a cease-and-desist letter sent Friday to top ABC executives Anne Sweeney and Alan Braverman and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, CBS lawyer Scott Edelman of the Gibson Dunn firm says Glass House is "strikingly" similar to Big Brother, which CBS has aired since 2000. "In the strongest possible terms, we must admonish ABC and anyone involved in the development or production of Glass House that they will be acting at their own peril if they continue to proceed in this manner," Edelman writes, "and that CBS has instructed us to pursue all available remedies if this course of conduct continues."

CBS also claims that the new ABC series is being produced by Big Brother veterans who might reveal private information about the inner workings of the show. Specifically, ABC alternative development executive Corie Henson is a Big Brother alum, and both Kenny Rosen and Mike O'Sullivan worked on the show. THR has learned that those individuals also received similar cease and desist letters,
"Even worse, CBS is informed that Glass House is being produced by a team of at least 18 former members of CBS' Big Brother production staff — all of whom were privy to trade secrets and other confidential, proprietary information and signed broad and binding non-disclosure agreements in connection with Big Brother," the letter reads.