Worst Network Show Ever?

What a cesspool.

A former “Criminal Minds” camera operator settled a lawsuit alleging that the show’s longtime director of photography subjected him to ongoing sexual harassment, including inappropriate touching.

An attorney for plaintiff Todd Durboraw filed a notice of settlement July 13 with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green.

No terms were divulged.

Durboraw brought the complaint in July 2019 against former “Criminal Minds” director of photography Greg St. Johns, CBS Corp., ABC Studios, Entertainment Partners Enterprises LLC, and Warner Bros. Entertainment.

Warner Bros., CBS and Entertainment Partners were later dismissed as defendants.

Durboraw was a second assistant cameraman on the show and alleged St. Johns often touched him in a sexual manner. The plaintiff also alleged that other employees were victimized in a similar manner and that St. Johns retaliated against those who objected.

St. Johns also discriminated, harassed and retaliated against the plaintiff for taking days off work for his daughter’s birth and health issues, the suit stated.

“Criminal Minds” was a police crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 2005 through February 2020. ABC Studios produced the series.

It kills me this weasel kicked a producer; today I learned he shoved an A.D. as well. (Not nearly as big an affront to Hollywood sensibilities as kicking a writer-producer.)

It was the third strike in five years that led to Thomas Gibson’s ouster from “Criminal Minds” on Friday, according to multiple industry sources with knowledge of the situation.

The actor was fired by “Criminal Minds” producers ABC Studios and CBS Television Studios following an internal investigation of an on-set fight in which Gibson allegedly kicked writer-producer Virgil Williams during production of an episode that Gibson was directing.

The incident that took place about two weeks ago was the last straw for the studios, after two prior flare-ups. In January 2013, Gibson pleaded no contest to alcohol-related reckless driving after being arrested on suspicion of DUI. And in December 2010, he allegedly shoved “Criminal Minds” assistant director Ian Woolf during a late-night location shoot. That led the production studios to mandate that Gibson take eight hours of anger management classes.

[CalNews Inc./Vanity Fair]