A judge has shut down Netflix's early efforts to get its Baby Reindeer defamation suit kicked out of court
, winning for Best Series, Best Actor and Writing for creator Richard Gadd, and a Best Supporting Actress win for co-star Jessica Gunning—all involved might have hoped it would now be smooth sailing for the series. Not so much, turns out, as, which claims that Gunning’s Martha character in the series—who spends years stalking Gadd, playing a fictionalized version of himself as a struggling comedian—was based on her.
The judge did trim out some of the claims in Harvey’s suit, taking out claims for negligence, right of publicity and punitive damages, while leaving in a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The biggie is the defamation charge, though, and that one’s sticking: Netflix’s first steps to get the suit tossed out as a matter of course have now run straight into a legal wall.
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