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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndyB2008" data-source="post: 289940" data-attributes="member: 26097">With Richmond Hill, Grundy were so confident it would be renewed they extended the contracts on the key cast.When it was axed by Ten though, Grundy still had to honour the contracts so the actors got paid although it had ceased production.(The 2003 version of Crossroads had the same thing - the cast were on a year long contract as ITV had commissioned the show for a year until 2004, but when the ratings were dire,  the contract was cut in half and the show ended early. However the actors still had to be paid by Carlton/Yvon Grace for the rest of the run.Lucy Pargeter, when she became an Emmerdale cast member, was in Crossroads and mentioned this in an interview where she was paid the whole contract).</blockquote>