…Because money, you know, has always had kind of a loud voice:
Who Earns What: TV’s Highest Paid Stars – by Stephen Battaglio and Michael Schneider
Drama (per episode)
Mark Harmon (NCIS): $500,000
Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy): $350,000
Kevin Bacon (The Following): $175,000
Lucy Liu (Elementary): $125,000
Stephen Amell (Arrow): $30,000
…Sorkin, that is. Looks like everyone’s after him these days, and not in a good way.
And a short while ago he was such a golden boy. Screenwriting Oscar winner! Beloved creator of THE WEST WING! Toast of what we used to call “the Intelligensia” with his cult fave SPORTS NIGHT.
We like this article because it pays attention to the rest of the writing staff Clyde’s brought in. Oh, and also because Clyde looks so much like TVWriter™ pal Stan Berkowitz, another formidable slinger of words. (Maybe that’s why Stan and Clyde are such good friends?) But we digress…
Clyde Phillips Inks New Deal With Lionsgate TV, Talks About Rebooting ‘Nurse Jackie’ – by Nellie Andreeva
Not munchman, Munch. John Munch, played by Richard Belzer. We thought he was just another TV cop. Turns out he’s the glue that holds the entire television world together. For reals:
From TVTropes.Org:
Danny Boyle’s ‘The Beach’ Being Developed as a TV Drama at Fox – by Allison Willmore
The 2000 Leonardo DiCaprio film “The Beach” may be considered one of the lesser entries in Danny Boyle’s filmography, but does it have the makings of a decent television show?
Fox seems to think so — Deadline is reporting that the network has signed on to develop a TV series based on the movie and the 1996 book written by Alex Garland from which it was adapted (Garland also scripted Boyle’s 2007 sci-fi drama “Sunshine”).