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From: fn62@dial.pipex.com
"Daniel Forrest" wrote in message
news:6a4puibaxd.fsf@yoda.lmcg.wisc.edu...
> "Alison Hopkins" writes:
>
>> wrote in message
>> news:1160057065.416853.194040@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>> > Podkayne Fries wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:32:13 +0100, "Alison Hopkins"
>> >> > Let's not forget that jms still got paid his full whack.
>> >> >jms and John had no real interest in looking after the actors' fees,
>> >> >they
>> >> >believed that they had them over a barrel.
>> >>
>> >> Are you saying that the actors took a pay cut when B5 moved to TNT,
>> >> but JMS did not?
>> > .
>> >
>> > Nobody took a paycut. They all got the same amount of money from WB
>> > for season 5, as they received for seasons 1-4. They were all working
>> > under the exact-same contract as before. It had been designed for a 5
>> > year span, and was still in effect for the TNT episodes.
>> >
>>
>> Wrong. They got less. They were told to accept less, and had no choice.
>>
>> Ali
>
> While technically correct, you are being disingenuous. They got less
> because they would be getting residuals based on the basic cable formula
> as opposed to the network formula, but those were the terms already
> existing in their contracts. And they had to accept that as contracted,
> or there would be no season 5.
That is not what was said by the cast members in the back of my car, I can
assure you.
>
> I don't understand why you and Paul are grinding this particular axe. The
> rest of the cast found those terms acceptable, Claudia didn't. Move on.
>
The rest of the cast didn't have jobs to go to. (Bruce, btw, was not crapped
on.)
Ali
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