According to the complaint filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the Crichton estate spent nearly a year unsuccessfully negotiating with Warner Bros. for the right to reboot the celebrated medical drama that ran on NBC. Read more: Warner Bros. Discovery puts Channing Dungey in charge of TV networks When the parties did not reach an agreement, the studio "simply moved the show from Chicago to Pittsburgh, rebranded it 'The Pitt,' and has plowed ahead without any attribution or compensation for Crichton and his heirs," the lawsuit alleges.