Posted on 07/05/2026 10:15:34 AM PDT by PROCON
Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe has filed a lawsuit against Discovery, claiming that the network owes him over $2 million for narration work he did on Deadliest Catch.
According to People, Rowe and his production company, Lab Rat, filed the lawsuit against Discovery Talent Services on Wednesday, July 1. The suit claims that the company breached its contract by refusing to honor Rowe’s “pay-or-play” agreement for his work on Deadliest Catch and its spinoff series.
Rowe, who has narrated the reality series since 2005, allegedly signed an agreement in 2020 that would pay him $40,000 per episode. His lawyers also claim that Rowe is to be compensated for the episodes he does not narrate. The filing notes that Rowe was not used as a narrator for five episodes of Season 21.
Additionally, the lawsuit claims that episodes that aired internationally are “materially different” from the episodes aired in the United States and should be considered “originally produced episodes.” Therefore, the suit states that Rowe’s “pay-or-play” agreement should also apply to those episodes.
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