ATTN JMS: Possible strike by writers and actors

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From: "Shaz" <hypatia at Dial.pipex.com>
Date: 14 Sep 2000 18:58:45 -0700
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"Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote in message
news:20000914180442.28152.00000303 at ng-bg1.aol.com...
> >Uh, my understanding of it was that (at least partially), she didn't want
> >to be *on contract* for the whole season--JMS gave her a gentleman's
> >promise that she'd be written out as necessary, but she'd still have to
> >sign for all 22 eps--TNT rules and the like, I believe. That wasn't good
> >enough--she wanted contractural assurance, which JMS couldn't give.
>
> The reason for this is very simple: if you contractually pay someone 22
> episodes worth for 18 episodes, that is a de facto per episode salary
increase,
> which would violate our agreements with all the other actors who had
favored
> nation status.  Some of the cast came to me privately and said that if she
were
> to be allowed to do that and come back, *they* would leave the show.
>
>  jms

Hmm. So when you wrote out Stephen Furst so he could do that film, but he
was still contracted to do the whole of the season, did people threaten to
walk then? Or is this situation different?

Shaz




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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 14 Sep 2000 19:56:49 -0700
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>Hmm. So when you wrote out Stephen Furst so he could do that film, but he
>was still contracted to do the whole of the season, did people threaten to
>walk then? Or is this situation different?

No, it's totally different.  Stephen said he'd really like to do this sitcom,
and could we let him out of his contract enough to do it?  We said yes, and he
told us he'd be available for x-number of episodes.  We said great, and he was
paid for the number of episodes in which he appeared.  So we were always
willing to work that out.  

 jms

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