$60 Million Suit Over Short-Lived Reality Show Gets Judge’s OK to Proceed

September 3, 2010

Remember the TV reality show "Making the Band," which spawned the short-lived boy band O-Town? The show's revenue is at the center of a $60 million suit pitting the bankruptcy estate of a film production company once run by Lou Pearlman -- the infamous boy band manager now in prison for orchestrating a $300 million Ponzi scheme -- against Viacom, MTV and the Sean "Diddy" Combs-controlled companies Bad Boy Films and Bad Boy Records. A Florida federal judge has ruled the suit can go forward.