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When Nigel Bellis went to work as a show runner for Bellum Entertainment in 2017, a friend gave him a warning: They have a habit of not paying on time."

Bellis spent the next several months in New Orleans, helping churn out more than 50 episodes of a true-crime TV show called Murderous Affairs. Though his payments came late, they always arrived. So when the company's owner, Mary Carole McDonnell, offered him a new role in Los Angeles, he took it.