"Apprentice" executive producer says he can't release show footage
The creator of Donald Trump’s former reality show “The Apprentice” says he can’t legally release footage from the show.
In a joint statement released by MGM and the producer, Mark Burnett, they said that there are legal requirements that prevent them from releasing video.
“MGM owns Mark Burnett’s production company and ‘The Apprentice’ is one of its properties. Despite reports to the contrary, Mark Burnett does not have the ability nor the right to release footage or other material from ‘The Apprentice,’” the statement said, according to multiple reports.
They also denied reports that Burnett had threatened to sue if any of the material were leaked.
“Various contractual and legal requirements also restrict MGM’s ability to release such material. The recent claims that Mark Burnett has threatened anyone with litigation if they were to leak such material are completely and unequivocally false. To be clear, as previously reported in the press, which Mark Burnett has confirmed, he has consistently supported Democratic campaigns,” it said.
This comes less than a week after a video surfaced showing Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005 in a conversation with then-host Billy Bush of NBC’s “Access Hollywood.” A number of Republicans have either condemned Trump, withdrawn their endorsements of him or have called on him to drop out of the presidential race.
Burnett has been the executive producer of Survivor, The Voice and Shark Tank, according to his IMDB biography.