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Paleyfest 2013, in a darken movie theatre is when I came over to the dark fandom side  It's like I had an epiphany there in the theatre during all those precious Majim moments.......

 

I also watched it in a theater with a handful of other people.  After a while I totally forgot the others were there and I was laughing my head off and having a good time.  I still have the ticket stub! :)

 

I wonder, though, if that didn't really pay off for them.  I don't remember hearing about any theaters that were at all full, so maybe it didn't make enough money for them to do it again.  Still, it was really great for those of us who would never otherwise be able to go to Paley.

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KCAs are great for a drinking game. Play "have a shot every time there's someone on the stage you have never heard of" and you'll be totally drunk in about 15 minutes, I promise.

15 minutes is rather generous! :icon_biggrin:  But I'm totally pouring myself a glass of wine now...

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Response to user:Phatagrae's reply on Page 93, at post #1846 (sorry, unable to quote posts in this forum):

 

Yeah, but I know cast salaries higher than $1 million per episode might make any series more expensive to produce than it looks. In my initial post, I kinda took this one-million-per-episode thing as a bad sign rather than a good one.

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Response to user:Phatagrae's reply on Page 93, at post #1846 (sorry, unable to quote posts in this forum):

 

Yeah, but I know cast salaries higher than $1 million per episode might make any series more expensive to produce than it looks. In my initial post, I kinda took this one-million-per-episode thing as a bad sign rather than a good one.

I think CBS/WB can afford just about anything at this point, but since the cast salaries are set, it's not really an issue. There is an option on the studio's side to possibly do at least one more season after the 10th that they're currently contracted for, and that's an option they could use if they feel the show is still getting high enough ratings and making enough money (advertisers, syndication, etc.). I don't know if that option has the salaries set or if excercizing that option means that they'd have to up the salaries, but I'm sure WB wouldn't do it if they didn't think they could afford that 11th season.

The studio won't hang onto the show if it is no longer making money, but that won't be considered until the end of the 10th season. They obviously felt they could afford to go through the 10th season at his point or they wouldn't have set up the contracts. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some kind of salary bump for any season past the 10th, but I don't remember if anything about that was mentioned back when they set the contracts for Jim, Johnny, and Kaley.

I think they all know they're almost done with the show and if the studio felt like going longer they would be willing to pay for it.

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Phanta, this isn't for you, but more for Jim.

It's not Warner Brothers who will make the call. Another season would be gravy for WB, as they are the ones that would reap the benefit of syndication. If it drops 20% per year for the next two years(it's dropped 13% this year), it will still have a demo of almost 2.9 (the rating for demo viewers THIS year is under 1.7), so at that point, it would still make money for CBS and they would pull the trigger on the 11th year. If it dropped another 20% during the 11th year, it would still be above a 2.4 demo at the end of the 11th year. That would still be in the top 15 this year. A 30% drop each year would give it a 1.6 demo, almost the average for this year.

CBS is paying in the vicinity of 4-5 million per episode for the license fee for 24 episodes, and at the current estimated ad rate, it's bringing in about 6.5 million for 31 episodes(as a average, higher for new episodes, lower for repeats, but then the license fee is lower also, not to mention they may have sold ad time for another cancelled show that TBBT was put in to cover). Even at a reduced ad rate as the demo goes down, it will still be making money (with the above assumptions) into it's 11th season, and possibly into it's 12th.

You're right that as the salaries rise for the actors, the show becomes more expensive. However, WB may give CBS a break on the price of the license, to get another season for syndication. That happens all the time for shows going into their fourth season. Some production companies will almost underwrite the show on a negative basis for that fourth season, just so they can get enough episodes for syndication. It's not quite like that for a twelfth season, as the rewards, and hence a reduced price, for one season aren't as great as for getting a four season run out there, but there is some wiggle room.

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Phanta, this isn't for you, but more for Jim.It's not Warner Brothers who will make the call. Another season would be gravy for WB, as they are the ones that would reap the benefit of syndication. If it drops 20% per year for the next two years(it's dropped 13% this year), it will still have a demo of almost 2.9 (the rating for demo viewers THIS year is under 1.7), so at that point, it would still make money for CBS and they would pull the trigger on the 11th year. If it dropped another 20% during the 11th year, it would still be above a 2.4 demo at the end of the 11th year. That would still be in the top 15 this year. A 30% drop each year would give it a 1.6 demo, almost the average for this year.CBS is paying in the vicinity of 4-5 million per episode for the license fee for 24 episodes, and at the current estimated ad rate, it's bringing in about 6.5 million for 31 episodes(as a average, higher for new episodes, lower for repeats, but then the license fee is lower also, not to mention they may have sold ad time for another cancelled show that TBBT was put in to cover). Even at a reduced ad rate as the demo goes down, it will still be making money (with the above assumptions) into it's 11th season, and possibly into it's 12th.You're right that as the salaries rise for the actors, the show becomes more expensive. However, WB may give CBS a break on the price of the license, to get another season for syndication. That happens all the time for shows going into their fourth season. Some production companies will almost underwrite the show on a negative basis for that fourth season, just so they can get enough episodes for syndication. It's not quite like that for a twelfth season, as the rewards, and hence a reduced price, for one season aren't as great as for getting a four season run out there, but there is some wiggle room.

So if I understand this correctly, the writers will really have to write really bad crap and the network is really going to have to ignore it for the show not to go to eleven season. OR the actors will not have to want to due more seasons.

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Just saw Aarti Mann in a MasterCard Commercial. It's a bunch of short clips on where people would go for a vacation. Her clip is offering "backstage passes", for the vacation.

Lol...I saw that too. My husband even noticed and said, "Isn't that Priya?"

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