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   From: paul@harper.net   
      
   On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 19:33:44 +0100, "Alison Hopkins"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Well, he wrote 100 plus episodes. On your figures, that makes one and a half   
   >million dollars. On mine, 2.8 million. Babylonian paid production expenses,   
   >including publicity and  other things - and that was from people on staff.   
   >He also made money from his own merchandising and from conventions, of   
   >course.   
   >   
   >And I've not said he had money to throw away. What I will say is that the   
   >financial deal at the end of Season 4 was built so as to pay the actors the   
   >SAG minimum and to optimise the cash that went to the production company.   
      
   Well, he's not done badly. 2.8 mil from writing B5, another 400k from   
   Crusade, say another quarter mil from the movies, two seasons of   
   Jeremiah, so that's another 35 episodes or another million or so   
   there. Then there's the conventions, each probably well into five   
   figures, plus direction fees, executive producer fees, profits from   
   selling tat on eBay, book profits.   
      
   Nice work if you can get it.   
      
   Of course, now he's on the a-stands-for-arsehole-list, the fees will   
   be considerably higher.   
      
   Paul.   
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