Personally, that’s where I’d aim if I wasn’t part of the big 3. The show will be on for decades in syndication.
They don’t need to make that much money. They were getting paid more per episode than most people make in three years, and now that’s gone up to more per episode than most make in ten years. That’s more than anybody needs, let alone deserves.
The success of a show should be reflected on its entire creative and production team, and its profits should be shared fairly around amongst them all, cast and crew alike. Then the excess, lets say 60% of the profits, should be used to make more stuff, employing even more people and giving them more opportunities to make popular shows.
You don’t just give it all to the lead actors, who showcase no more or less talent than anyone else in the show but who just by chance were lucky enough to be the ones who read the dialogue in a silly enough voice to get the laughs.
I accept that as leads they get the privilege of earning more than their co-cast members, but that means an extra $10k per ep, maybe, not an extra $600k, a single episode’s worth of which could conceivably pay for ten crew members annual wage, let alone a whole season’s worth for three actors (that would be enough to pay around 600 people for a year).
It’s an extreme imbalance that has just got more extreme, and it’s wrong.
Somebody is a dedicated little Marxist.
If they didn’t give it to the actors, the studio executives would just use it to light cigars, or whatever rich people to with their excess wealth. (Not that the actors will do any different, but the actors getting more money doesn’t mean that the crew members aren’t getting well deserved wages.)
I know. It needs a system-wide change, which is what I’m really upset about; not specifically this show. It’s just the latest example.
I’m not ranting in the expectation things would actually change, I just don’t like the status quo.
Yeah, freedom blows. No one needs more than like two cabbages a day anyways.
I trade my two cabbages for some Keystone Light.
I thought Keystone Light was made from cabbages. Sure smells like it.
The argument that the talent is making too much money is one I hear frequently as a listener of sports-talk-radio. Billy-Bob says, “those dumb ass, over paid thugs can’t live on just a million a year. They need to hold out for more.” So who do you wish would get the money generated rather than the show people come to watch? The owner?
So if you don’t want the actors/talent to get any/more/too much of the $$$ generated from a profitable show, who gets it? Producers? network shareholders?
In the game of who I root for athletes vs owners. I’m mostly for the athletes. Same with actors vs shareholders. I’m for the actors.
And as one who has watched Ms. Cuoco-Sweetings (Go Gator, BTW) development carefully I knew for sure those sweater-puppies got enhanced.
Again, what do you think happens with the excess money? More television shows and movies are being produced today than have ever been produced at any time in history. And that’s because production companies are plowing all the money they make into creating new productions.
Even fifth-tier networks like WEtv are producing their own scripted shows now. And that is all able to happen because big hits like The Big Bang Theory make a metric shit-ton of money for everyone. That’s just science.
And in addition to the broadcast and cable networks creating shows, you have entities like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. also creating new shows.
Even Chuck Lorre was rooting for them to get more money. He wants them all to be multimillionaires, because they are making him even more than that.
My answer:
And? The guy who created the show should get a bigger piece of the pie. But he takes part of that piece (and another piece that goes to the production company he runs) and uses it to create new shows. Don’t you think the actors and crew on Mom are happy that Lorre had extra money lying around from BBT to create their show? They’ve got jobs and money now too, isn’t that exactly what you want?
I’ve said my piece. You know my side of things. I know it doesn’t sit well with the capitalist culture, but the disparity between the low paid and the highly paid is widening at a disgusting rate at the worst time, and every example of it sickens me.