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JMS (and coproducer George Johnsen) Usenet messages for August 1997.
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Date: 25 Jul 1997 02:25:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Likelihood of CC guest appearance in S5?
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I don't think it's a matter of reconciliation, though a number of folks in
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the cast are more than a bit upset with her decision. But that aside....
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In fifth year terms, given the situation, and contractual problems in
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bringing a departed regular in to guest star...my guess is that the odds
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are slim and none. It'll almost certainly have to wait for either the
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third TNT movie or feature projects.
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jms
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Date: 25 Jul 1997 02:25:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: My last word on CC (hopefully)
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I've already stated that we will keep the door open for the third TV movie
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and the feature, should that happen.
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jms
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Date: 25 Jul 1997 20:57:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia'n'residuals
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Claudia's statement that the actors were asked to give up their
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residuals now makes sense ... to me, anyway, and I'm writing to ask
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where or if I'm wrong in this deduction ... in that the actors *were*
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asked to give up residuals that might be able to cover their rent for
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a month in exchange for residuals that might be able to cover lunch.
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Her statement about "giving up residuals" could be taken as a bit
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of exaggeration, as, by the previous scale, the basic cable residuals
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*are* pretty much nonexistent on a making-a-living basis."
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Prior to getting the S5 renewal, we called in as many actors as were
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present and explained that shows made for basic cable are, according to
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the Screen Actors Guild Basic Agreement, different in many ways from
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syndication, as syndication is different than network, in terms of
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residuals.
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In network, the fees generally start higher, and the residuals start at a
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higher percentage of that fee as well . In syndication, the fees are
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smaller, and the residuals start at a lower percentage. (For writers, for
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instance, I think the going fee for a network script is about $26-30,000
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and the first rerun gets a high percentage of that back to the writer; in
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syndication, the script fee is about $15-16,000 and the first rerun starts
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at an even lower percentage of that fee.)
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For basic cable, things get more complicated. The fees paid stay the same
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as syndication, so across the board actors' fees, directors and writers
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don't get touched. But the various Guilds gave basic cable a break in
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terms of encouraging original production, and in rerunning
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network/syndication fare. For instance, there's one formula for something
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made for network/syndication and later run on cable, and another for
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something made *specifically* for basic cable.
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And it's the latter that we had to explain to the actors, because under
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SAG regs, again as part of the various guilds' decision to give cable a
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break to get it up and viable (so that it can later be brought up to par
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with syndication), the formula is that the amount paid to an actor above
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double-scale is credited against residuals. Once that is burned through,
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residuals accrue to the actor again.
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That was the ONLY item mentioned in terms of residuals. Bear in mind in
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ALL this that we *cannot* make ANY deal that contravenes what is
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established by the various guilds, so asking any actor to give up
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residuals forever, as some have suggested, cannot be done by us or ANYone
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because we are Guild signatories.
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jms
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