L&O Signs Vet, Intent Stars....
TVGuide.com, 6.12.07
By Matt Webb Mitovich
Jesse L. Martin has renegotiated his contract to return to Law & Order for a minimum of 13 episodes, says the New York Post . Similarly, FoxNews.com says that Criminal Intent 's Vincent D'Onofrio and Chris Noth (and Ms. Erbe, I have to imagine) have agreed to the previously reported salary freezes, keeping their haul at $350K for each of the 11 episodes they shoot. More.
posted by thereel @ 5:32 PM
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This makes me very happy-I like Jesse L. Martin a lot and glad to have him back and of course, Vincent, Kate and Chris, it goes without saying-I don't appear to no anything about actors salaries thought I remember the five person crew of "Friends" getting 1 million apiece per episode for the last season of a half hour ensemble comedy-so........
Regi.
If someone posted my salary, I'd be extremely annoyed. No one's business but theirs afterall - and it's still peanuts compared to what some on TV/Sports earn.
anyway, welcome back to C.I's 'A' Team (and half of the 'B' Team too). Does anyone know what's happening with Julianne? Being pregnant didn't stop Kate doing the show, and she barely seemed to be gone any time at all thanks to clever (Hmmm, did I just imply someone at NBC was clever?!) episode timing.
At least they are coming back so I'm a happy camper. $350k per episode....that's a nice haul! But they do work very hard for it.
Actually it's not peanuts on a per episode basis, it ties them with Zach Braff who is listed as # 10 in salaries (of course he makes more because he does 22 episodes), it's also mre per episode than either Meloni or Hargitay. As to someone knowing what they make, there are certain occupations where what you make is public knowledge. I'm not a star, I'm not running for public office but because I'm a lowly educator in a public college my salary is public knowledge (BTW I only make a fraction of what Noth and D'Onofrio make for an episode for a years worth of teaching and I had to earn a PhD to do my job - but you know what? I don't begrudge them their paycheck, they do what few people can do)
I'm so glad Jesse is staying. In my opinion, if he, Epatha, and Waterston left the mothership, the show would sink fast.
I'm glad they replaced Govich with Jeremy Sisto, because the show works better with two male detectives, in my opinion. Hopefully Govich gets work somewhere else in NBC's family, like Sisto now has with L&O -- he was on the canceled Kidnapped.
And of course, our CI buddies are back! Don't think I forgot about that! I'm so happy that they're returning!
I'm surprised, though. If Erbe and D'Onofrio worked all 22 episodes, then they'd definitely be making more than NBC's favourite child (SVU) stars.
They do make more per ep. then SVU. When SVU renegotiated salaries this year it came out that they got moved up to 300K/ep.
We have soccer players in the UK that earn this much every WEEK, for 90 minutes prancing up and down a field for a few months each year and the C.I. cast are a LONG way short of the reputed $1M an episode once paid to David Duchovny for the 'X Files'.
Anyway, since Vincent is pricless, it's all academic.
Welcome back C.I. cast!! anyway ;0)
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