[ SECRET POST #3862 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3862 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[FunkoPOP]


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03.
[Game of Thrones]


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04.
[Power Rangers 2017, Erica Cerra]


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05.
[Legend of Korra]


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06.
[Peter Capaldi]


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07.
[Gerard Way in "Ghost of You", Harry Styles in Dunkirk]

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08.
[Fargo Season 3]












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Comments

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I don't know. Only a handful of actors can demand more than $10 million for a job. For The Force Awakens, only Ford got paid that much. Hamill and Fisher reportedly got paid more than a million, the rest of the primary cast were in the mid-low six figures.

A quarter million U.S. for a short season seems middling.

[(Anonymous)]

I would call 200K per episode middling to good. 200K to play the lead in an incredibly famous and well established series for an entire season? That's absurdly low, by American standards.

This list of highest paid primetime salaries starts to give you the picture. Naturally, the comedy actors tend to make more - that's basically just how it is. But just off of that list, we've got the actors who played House, Tony Soprano, Rick Grimes, Daryl Dixon, Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, and a bunch from Game of Thrones - all of them making 500K+ per episode.

Forgot the actual link!

[(Anonymous)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_paid_American_television_stars

Derp

Re: Forgot the actual link!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Yep, apples to oranges.

1. different revenue model
2. different market
3. picking the top 1% of earners.

Re: Forgot the actual link!

[(Anonymous)]

DA

O...kay? None of this actually negates what AYRT or the OP are saying, which is that other leads in far less famous and well-loved TV shows are making a dozen times the money Capaldi is making. Regardless of why that is, it seems insultingly unfair to Capaldi.

Re: Forgot the actual link!

[cbrachyrhynchos]

While Doctor Who is a fandom darling, it's not pulling the numbers of American primetime. More importantly, it's not pulling the advertising revenue. That's entirely due to primetime taking the best time slots on the networks with the broadest reach.

[(Anonymous)]

it still perturbs me that fucking judge judy is the highest paid person on american tv

[cbrachyrhynchos]

This list of highest paid primetime salaries starts to give you the picture.

American "primetime" has the historic advantage of a limited-competition cartel with guaranteed national distribution. It's called "primetime" because it's an advertising cash cow for traditional American networks. I'd argue that American primetime budgets have been historically inflated by artificial scarcity. Game of Thrones is a curve-busting anomaly in the industry with 3X the budget of an American show and 6X the budget of a Doctor Who episode.

The BBC, in contrast, is largely a tax-funded public television network and they're still third-tier cable in many international markets. So it strikes me as an apples to oranges comparison.