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<blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 438664" data-attributes="member: 495">Suzanne admitted that 150K was a starting point in the negotiations, and that she hoped they’d end up somewhere in the middle. A independent production company could not afford the deficit financing that six-figure salaries for the leads would have entailed. What the lead trio needed to negotiate was back-end points (profit participation) as Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams did a few years earlier. And they would have gotten it had they banded together. There was no way Taffner and associates would have risked the golden goose that was about to lay those huge syndication eggs. They could have afforded to give the trio a half percentage point each.They should have spun off Three’s a Crowd a year earlier than they did, before the parent show dropped so drastically in the ratings. People were tiring of Three’s Company and the leads seemed too old to be living together at that point. Add to that the poorly-drawn new characters and the miscasting, and you’ve got a flop on your hands. Ritter never had to carry Three’s Company the way he did Three’s a Crowd, because he had a strong ensemble in the original series.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris2, post: 438664, member: 495"] Suzanne admitted that 150K was a starting point in the negotiations, and that she hoped they’d end up somewhere in the middle. A independent production company could not afford the deficit financing that six-figure salaries for the leads would have entailed. What the lead trio needed to negotiate was back-end points (profit participation) as Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams did a few years earlier. And they would have gotten it had they banded together. There was no way Taffner and associates would have risked the golden goose that was about to lay those huge syndication eggs. They could have afforded to give the trio a half percentage point each. They should have spun off Three’s a Crowd a year earlier than they did, before the parent show dropped so drastically in the ratings. People were tiring of Three’s Company and the leads seemed too old to be living together at that point. Add to that the poorly-drawn new characters and the miscasting, and you’ve got a flop on your hands. Ritter never had to carry Three’s Company the way he did Three’s a Crowd, because he had a strong ensemble in the original series. [/QUOTE]

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