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<blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 374760" data-attributes="member: 495">One of the news shows tried to position her dispute as an equal pay issue with John Ritter. The reality is that Suzanne Somers was paid between 25-30K an episode, Ritter (a more established actor) was getting 50K per episode, and Somers was demanding 150K an episode, plus 10 percent of the back end. Ritter had a favored nations clause in his contract, meaning that he wouldn’t be paid less than the others. The numbers Somers was looking for weren’t going to work. Her negotiating while the show was in production (rather than during hiatus, which is cutomary) was very disruptive to the show and pissed off her colleagues. And, as you mentioned, she had a “creative approach to the truth” according to Joyce DeWitt.Still, I believe the actors all deserved a percentage of the syndication profits. That show made over a half billion dollars in syndication revenue, and as an independent production, there was no big studio to take a cut. It’s too bad Suzanne didn’t band together with Ritter and DeWitt a la the Friends cast did nearly 20 years later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris2, post: 374760, member: 495"] One of the news shows tried to position her dispute as an equal pay issue with John Ritter. The reality is that Suzanne Somers was paid between 25-30K an episode, Ritter (a more established actor) was getting 50K per episode, and Somers was demanding 150K an episode, plus 10 percent of the back end. Ritter had a favored nations clause in his contract, meaning that he wouldn’t be paid less than the others. The numbers Somers was looking for weren’t going to work. Her negotiating while the show was in production (rather than during hiatus, which is cutomary) was very disruptive to the show and pissed off her colleagues. And, as you mentioned, she had a “creative approach to the truth” according to Joyce DeWitt. Still, I believe the actors all deserved a percentage of the syndication profits. That show made over a half billion dollars in syndication revenue, and as an independent production, there was no big studio to take a cut. It’s too bad Suzanne didn’t band together with Ritter and DeWitt a la the Friends cast did nearly 20 years later. [/QUOTE]

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