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Warner Bros. Television has filed a massive lawsuit against CBS over "Two and a half Men."
According to the suit filed Tuesday in L.A. County Superior Court, W.B. claims CBS owes it more than $49 million. The suit claims W.B. and CBS struck a deal -- that CBS would pay a lower-than-marketplace fee in seasons 5 and 6, but if the show was a hit CBS would reimburse W.B. for certain losses.
Here's the deal. According to the suit, CBS paid W.B. a fee of $750,000 per episode in the first season, with modest increases thereafter. That amount wasn't enough to cover the cost of production. W.B. claims the average cost per episode for the first season was $1,219,894. W.B. claims during the first four seasons it incurred a loss of $61,097,418.
W.B. alleges CBS was obligated to reimburse the company for some or all of the deficits, depending on the national ranking of the show. W.B. claims in spite of the fact that the show is a success and currently in season 6, CBS refuses to pay more than $49,000,000 it's owed.
CBS could not immediately be reached for comment.
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3rd but it's really only cool to comment first on stories people care about.
... had comments re grammar... now... just... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
BTW... I LOVE THE SHOW.. re this topic though, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
21 minutes of show for 1.2 million bucks. It's a good show but not THAT good.
I love the show but I cannot fathom why it would cost over a million bucks to produce ONE half an hour episode. Must be Sheen and Cryer are making some huge bank per show and that is included in this ridiculous cost?
Show sucks, Same jokes. The actors suck. Very predictable and boring..
The costs are high because of the salaries, BUT CBS makes a killing on the advertisers...it's THE hit show, so it's going to be costly...look at friends those last few seasons.
This a non-story for the fly-over states. It's only news in LA and NY. It should be on Variety's or Hollywood Reporter's sites. The masses aren't into this kind of "inside baseball" reporting.
I think this show is funny, keeps us all cracking up. Even the reruns are hysterical. A lot of money though. They will have to takes cuts in pay like everybody else has.
i luv the show and the epsidoes keep gettin better but the price to make one epsiode i mean come on
