Peak TV may be over, but peak TV salaries haven’t gone away. The streaming revolution changed the game when it came to recruiting A-listers to appear in topline series on the small screen, and the biggest stars are still nabbing impressive paychecks.
\n\nThe downturn in original series production has tightened up the marketplace overall. But with the right project arriving at the right moment, marquee names are still making bank in TV. The film business, on the other hand, has been in a state of limbo for most of this year as the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger has unfolded. The recent shake-up of Netflix’s content leadership has also put a crimp in dealmaking, at least temporarily, even as the film sector celebrates the buoyancy of the box office this year.
\n\nSome of the eye-popping salaries for TV series have been well documented, including the packages that brought Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon to Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” at around $2 million an episode. More recent TV recruits include Sylvester Stallone, who’s believed to be clearing about $2 million an episode for his work on Paramount+’s Taylor Sheridan-produced drama “Tulsa King.”
\n\nOthers who have negotiated a pretty payday are “Only Murders…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/