That's because this isn't a complete list, just the salaries that where released. I personally know that on Smallville a couple of our leads make well more than some on that list, my buddy on Supernatural would also be up there too if his salary was released.

also expect Ashley Tisdale's salary to be bumped up when WB gives us the official order for a full 22. Everyone on Hellcats were all basically on pilot deals and half 1st season deals.

Just as an FYI, it usually takes approx 10-15 shooting days per episode, so those salaries are per approx 2 weeks work.

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you work with the cast for smallville? thats cool, i wanna meet them.. one of my fav shows.. where do they usually shoot?

wtf... holy crap.

Yup, on Smallville and Hellcats. The SV studio is in Burnaby just of Gilley.

Jim Parsons only makes 40k/episode?

His character IS the show. wtf. underpaid.

for me it's hard to believe the average show would take that long to shoot..considering many shows they start the season with only half of it filmed..especially the new series that start with 8 episodes and they continue on shooting depending on the viewership of the pilot.

if i'm not mistaken, oprah makes more than the entire reality, news and comedy categories combined lol

hahha yeah buddy

Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (Jersey Shore) $30,000 per episode

Really? wow.
But who am i to say anothing, i watch that show. Go VInnY!

ryan seacrest, 15 million for doing nothing?

whata sweet job

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Doesn't work that way, no show on a regular fall schedule would have half their season shot before it airs. We are currently on production of episode 3 and 4 for Smallville and episode 4 and 5 for Hellcats and then post-production still needs to work on it. Our writers I believe are only on episode 6 of Smallville right now. To give you an idea, we began shooting the fall season of Smallville and Hellcats mid and early July for early and late September airing dates respectively.

At times there are also last minute re-shoots, I've seen shows shot and post delivered just 2 days before airing date. Not all things go according to plan either, like on Supernatural right now, they are on production on episodes 1 and 2, but have completed episode 4 and will actually air episode 4 first as the season premiere. Confussed yet lol

^ thanks for the clarification
wow 2 days before airing date...that's cutting it pretty close!

What happens if a show misses its deadline, lol. Does it/has it ever happened?

CHARLIE SHEEN!!

Not really, usually when its running that close to ship date, its just the post production that needs to be done, bascially VFX doing rig removal, matte paintings and other effects, so the post guys would work OT until its done.

Tried crashing one of the Smallville sets last night out by the Boundary Bay airport. Chatted with the PA that was blocking the road for a while (I forgot how shitty of a job that is) before me and my friend turned around. She wanted to watch meteors more than chat with a lowly PA, though she did share a story about how she rejected the actor that plays Lex Luthor (forgot his name ATM) after he hit on her at a club. :lol

I remember one episode of Dark Angel that I was helping on that wrapped filming 36 hours prior to the scheduled release day, thanks to about 48 hours worth of extra reshoots that needed to be completed. Oh how the post production crew hated the director for that one...

holy fuck oprah

Gordan Ramsey?

How can people get paid soooo fucking much!! Someone needs to fucking regulate where money goes and how much someone should REALLY get!

Yea, from what I recall, DA was notorious last minute rewrites and reshoots. Our post crew had a fit last season when 48hrs before air date, our director decided that a scene that we shot in the day on a sunny day would look better if it was at night, so the post crew had to be pulled in on their days off to convert everything into night time haha.

I hate to sound like a snob, but in all honesty, any actor getting paid under 150k per episode on TV isn't really getting paid much by industry standards.

^ A little off topic but 7seven if you don't mind me asking what's your role at work or what crew are you a part of? Definitely sounds like you've got some cool perks from work! And I understand if you'd rather not disclose any information about what you do lol.

Where is does all this money come from when paying for the actors? I mean it seems the actors get paid more than the whole production.

I deal with mostly private security for the actors. My clients include actors, studios, etc.., sometimes, my client(s) who are actors are more comfortable working with me, so in those situations they request the studio or production to hire me on and I deal with all aspects from their personal security, accomdations, logistics, locations, transport, etc... in short I'm a glorified babysitter :D

From the only reason why TV shows are made, not to entertain, but to sell products. A 30 second ad spot on a primetime show goes from anywhere from $150,000 to $300,000, depending on the shows ratings. Product placements in shows & dvd sales also brings in revenue, but by far the #1 revenue generator are the syndication & licensing rights for the show to air in other countries and to other networks for reruns after the show ends.

Examples, for our show Hellcats, the studio just sold the Canadian airing rights to CTV's A Channel network to air the show in Canada. Those Seinfeld and Office reruns that you see airing, NBC sold those syndication rights to the networks airing them.

So the TV shows basically make their revenue through selling their rights to a tv network to air the show. What happens to some of the shows that are not able to get a channel network to air their show?