Brad Kern, the longtime CBS producer who was investigated twice for alleged harassment that he harassed and bullied female employees, has been fired by producers CBS Television Studios.
A CBS Television Studios spokesperson confirmed that the former show-runner of NCIS is no longer working for the network as of Monday.
“We have ended Brad Kern’s role as consulting producer on ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ and his overall deal with the studio,” a spokesperson for CBS Television Studios said in a statement.
After being appointed the drama’s showrunner CBS launched a pair of internal investigations, with the first beginning in June 2016 and ending a month later. The second launched after a female writer went to human resources later that year, and ended in February 2017.
In a December story, multiple NCIS: New Orleans sources said they told CBS HR that Kern harassed and unfairly penalized women, repeatedly bullied a nursing mother and made racially insensitive statements, among other allegations.
“I believe they will get to the truth. Everything is investigated and the result is to find the truth. I believe both in our HR department and any outside counsel’, said CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl told the Television Critics Association at the Summer Press Tour back in August.
Kern was accused of discriminating against working parents, making racially insensitive comments, and sexual harassment that included “sexualized remarks about women, giving them massages without asking, and [mocking] a nursing mother in front of her colleagues”.
Brad is the fourth high-profile figure to be fired from CBS in the last year. In November, veteran talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose was fired amid mounting sexual harassment claims.
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