Cote, sources say, wanted pay parity with scene partner and on air love interest Michael Weatherly.
And now Cote de Pablo is gone from “NCIS.”
“She was asking for $225,000, closer to what Michael is making per episode,” says a source. “And the show wouldn’t do it. It wasn’t going to happen. She was being offered about $200,000, which is pretty good, and was up from what she had been making.” Indeed, that would come to over $4 million a season. You can’t beat that with a stick.
“Mark Harmon was urging her to take it,” says my source. “And she waited and waited, figuring they’d cave in.” But it didn’t happen. “NCIS” is a show with a big cast. Harmon gets the big money, Weatherly follows, then Cote de Pablo. Pauley Perrette and the rest of the cast follow including David McCallum, formerly but always Illya Kuryakin.
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And now Cote de Pablo is gone from “NCIS.”
“She was asking for $225,000, closer to what Michael is making per episode,” says a source. “And the show wouldn’t do it. It wasn’t going to happen. She was being offered about $200,000, which is pretty good, and was up from what she had been making.” Indeed, that would come to over $4 million a season. You can’t beat that with a stick.
“Mark Harmon was urging her to take it,” says my source. “And she waited and waited, figuring they’d cave in.” But it didn’t happen. “NCIS” is a show with a big cast. Harmon gets the big money, Weatherly follows, then Cote de Pablo. Pauley Perrette and the rest of the cast follow including David McCallum, formerly but always Illya Kuryakin.
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Should have fucking given it to her. That would have been fair to making what Michael makes.
ReplyDeleteGreed. It's what moves America.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not greedy. It's only fair to be making close to what Michael, her sort of love interest, makes. CBS does this with their female actresses all the time.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened with Criminal Minds AJ Cook and Kristen wanted equal pay and CM executives were smart enough to pay NCIS wasn't. I don't blame her for wanting equal pay and when ratings start to drop (though for NCIS this would make it like 17 million) they will regret it.
ReplyDeleteMichael has seniority and has a longer more impressive resume than she does, so in my opinion she should not be making what he makes, I have to say this just seems greedy to me. Getting equal pay is one thing, but it needs to be earned and you can't play chicken with CBS you'l loose as she has.
ReplyDeletei agree that it is not greedy, but i think it is odd that telivision actors earn from 100 000 dollars and up only for one episode that is odd and a little sick because think about actors who earn 100 000 dollars + for one episode if they could earn 50 000 dollars or a little moore for one episode witch is also verry good for one episode the other half could probably help 100 + homeless and starving children.
ReplyDeletebeing in hollywood must make some people lose their sense of perspective.
ReplyDelete4 million a season is a hell of a lot better than nothing..and now that's what she has, a big nothing...What a shame..,
ReplyDeleteNcis should give it to her.she is worth it
ReplyDeleteI agree with her wanting something closer to what Michael is making, because they both have about the same on-screen time per episode and are the most relevant characters on the show after Gibbs. Now if she wanted the same as Michael I wouldn't agree because he directs some episodes too from time to time.
ReplyDeleteHer exit will have a big impact on the show, and I don't think it will last much longer. I hope I'm wrong because I've been watching it since the beginning and plan on watching after Cote leaves, unless her exit makes the show too unbearable to watch.
At the risk of getting hate, if she had been in the show for as long as Michael, i'd be all in for her to get the same pay. If what i understand is correct, Michael gets 225,000 or a bit more, so 200,000 seems fair to me. Alas, she didn't take it and now i'm just here crying cause that means no more ziva or tiva :( Apart from that, i find it wrong that Pauley and Sean get less. I didn't expect that idk why.
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to say she didn't deserve equal treatmeant, but 200.000 is a very good salary, specially in comparison to what she has now. And specially since they were giving her a rasie, just not the amount she wanted. I don't know, that's what think.
ReplyDeleteI agree. This was her first acting job. Harmon and Weatherly have been in this business for years and have worked their way up the ladder. So have Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray, and David McCallum, but they have all indicated in various interviews that their contracts are for less pay because they want to work fewer hours on the show. Cote de Pablo was being paid well, she just got greedy and left.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the pay discrepancy. What they offered her was on par with Weatherly, minus the amount of time de Pablo has been with the show compared to Michael. She should have accepted but instead tried to call their bluff and lost it all. All she accomplished was saving CBS about $150,000 an episode because they'll end up paying her replacement about 75% less than she was being offered.
ReplyDeleteThat's because on CM it's ABC who writes the checks and on NCIS it's CBS, who is known for mistreating their women. And I too believe the ratings will drop.
ReplyDeleteThis story seems believable enough but I have to take it with a grain of salt because I have a hard time believing something as high-interest as this would be and exclusive broke by "Showbiz 411." Maybe if it was reported by Deadline or a similar outlet I'd have an easier time accepting it as fact.
ReplyDelete4 million...I can't even imagine being in a position where I would think 'that's not enough'.
ReplyDeleteActually, she has always been the lowest paid of the cast. And if this were season 3 or even season 5 I would agree with you. But it's not. And I don't. She is the lead actress in the number #1 show on television and she has been for 8 seasons. Yet she is not paid a lead's wage. Resumes are great to take into account when you first get a job. But after eight years her pay should be closer to secondary male lead's pay than to the supporting cast. She and her agent have a right to demand more. CBS has the right to say no. They did. Whether or not that was the right decision by them remains to be seen. They should pay close attention to the backlash now. NCIS may survive this or .... CBS may very well have shot the number one show on TV in the head.
ReplyDeleteIf that were true, I really don't think she would have come back for any season 11 episode.....not even to finish her storyline.
ReplyDeleteBut she isn't the lowest paid,she is the 3rd highest.
ReplyDeleteShe has lived with this character for eight seasons. In spite of any contract dispute it's likely she's returning to wrap things up out of respect for the character and the viewers who have supported her for the greater portion of a decade.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of crazy, I know but we are talking about a billion dollar industry. NCIS makes millions for CBS; if it didn't they would have it on the air. Advertisers know that 20 million ppw watch the show and it's a gold mine because of that. So asking for fair pay in this industry well... it's all relative.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't on par with Weatherly, but it was closer than she has now. More on par with Pauley actually, who as much as we love her, is a supporting actress. The lead actress should be paid more. At least after 8 years she should. But we will see who fairs better with the outcome. If CBS hires an unknown to replace her they may die in the ratings if they replace her with someone with a name to try and save the ratings they may end up paying more in end than it would have cost to keep her.
ReplyDeleteActually if you look up the articles from the last time she resigned (a year after her costars did btw) I believe they stated that she would get a signing bonus and a salary that would bring her up closer to what Pauley and Sean make. So that puts her at 5th ish.
ReplyDeleteIf this is true it's sad... On her part.
ReplyDeleteShe has not been on the series as long so she has no case to be paid as much as Weatherly.
The offer was more than fair. Monetarily it honestly may have been acceptable to her, but the principal of not being paid as much as her co-star made her hold out for something she did not deserve.
Plus for all we know Weatherly could have a contract clause to technically be the "second lead"/ "lead co-star" or second highest paid actor on the series. In which case they could not raise her to equal pay without giving him a raise and then she would just be upset again. XD
I did the math. The offer was almost exactly on par with Weatherly. Factoring in the traditional 5% pay bump actors get after every season throughout a contract, after an additional 2 seasons (bringing her to 10 seasons, like Weatherly is at now) her pay would be, wait for it...
ReplyDelete$225,000, the exact amount Weatherly is making per episode after 10 seasons.
If you look at the show Mark, Michael, and Cote get the most screen time. If I were her I would want the same thing. Yes, Michael has been on two years more than she has, but in terms of now Cote is equally as important to the show as Michael is. She's one of the main characters. She's had season finales,and multiple episodes centered around her character. You take her character away and you ruin the show. Risking the downfall of the number one show on your network over an extra $25,000 is stupid. When you take away a huge part of why the show is so successful expect the downfall to start happening. Letting her go is a huge mistake. It's not going to be as good when she's gone. It's just not.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Funny enough child and I were discussing this in the car on the way home (he's taking economics and we wandered into crazy pay from a taxation discussion). It is all relative but I do think some that get caught up in this pay wars in Hollywood need to step back and have a little bit of perspective. As someone else mentioned, 4 million is better than zero. :/
ReplyDeleteIt seems a wrong move from her... :( it's not that they weren't raising the pay. God now i'm really upset if i wasn't already
ReplyDeleteI don't think it works quite that way. I know the longer an actor is with a series the higher their pay, hence some characters are 'killed off' so they can bring in a replacement at a fraction of the cost.
ReplyDeleteI just said what i read but you could very well be right. I do not have first hand knowledge,so i cannot dispute it..
ReplyDeleteWell what they did offer was pretty close, considering she's been in the show over two years less than him and he is second on the call sheet.
ReplyDeleteLook I'm the first to demand equal pay (and I was very upset over the issue when it came up on Criminal Minds because THAT was unacceptable) but in this case, because I do feel that Tony as a character is more integral to the show than Ziva what they offered was more than fair.
It's too late in the series to introduce new people. I feel like next season is going to be the last season so why not just do whatever you need to do to keep her until then. At this point I wish they would've ended it last season. You want to end a show while you're still on top. You don't want to wait until you've lost half of your viewers. And I fear that's exactly what's going to happen.
ReplyDeleteIf next season is the last season it makes no difference then.
ReplyDeleteEven if the ratings tanked (which they will not) CBS would be making the same amount off ads and saving the money of paying a new actress less money. I guess by your logic it makes double the sense to let her go.
I'm not sure the ratings will drop much anyway honestly. The show's format lends itself to new blood quite nicely honestly. The female agent was already replaced once and the popularity only grew.
As much as I love Sasha Alexander her character brought nothing to the show. The ratings are going to drop. Especially since the new show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D is going to be on at exactly the same time. Factor that in with the loss of Cote, and The Voice being on the same time as well and it's not good. We'll have to wait until September to see what happens. After Cote leaves I may stick around for one or two episodes and then I'm done. Change is not always a good thing.
ReplyDeleteAlways bout that all mighty dollar but seriously $25k is what they were fighting over. I know thats cheap to these ppl they could have made the deal. Guess they thought she was replaceable. Camt hate on Cote, you gotta know ur worth specially in Hollywood.
ReplyDeleteIf it were as simple as the five percent we wouldn't need agents. Agents take 15% of an actors salary(managers take 25-30%) If you have both that's 40+% of your salary that you never actually see. If the networks automatically gave actors a 5% raise every season we would all be 40% richer cos we could fire our agents and managers. Agents push for more on various issues for various reasons. When contracts are up for renewal they negotiate another pay bump then and there + the raise every season. Some raises are 5% some are more depending what your agent can negotiate for you. They can get you more money, they can get you more freedom to do other projects, they can get you a production credit(Producer/Executive Producer etc).
ReplyDeleteHollywood is notorious for not paying women and men the same rate in all fields. I don't know if you can remember the huge pay discrepancy between the X-files leads. Anderson, although she worked the same hours and although she won all the awards, was paid considerably less than her co-star. Chalk it up to agent power and simple network sexism. It happens all the time.
If this article is true then dePablo took a stand and lost. Ultimately it was down to her agent misjudging the situation. I'm sorry to see her go.
Agreed!
ReplyDeleteWhile not her first acting job, it was her first successful series. And when it is a question of money, experience counts. To be fair, she should have the lowest salary based on her CV and her time on the series (even Brian Dietzen has been there longer). I won't get into her character's popularity here, but it has been divisive among the NCIS fanbase and probably would be another consideration in negotiations.
ReplyDeleteThe female / male pay discrepancy has nothing to do with this because CBS offered de Pablo a salary that was exactly on par with her male counterpart. Furthermore, almost every actor has an agent for representation (except in the rare case where an actor represents themselves) and an agent's job is to advocate for what their client wants. Whatever the agent was doing was at the behest of Cote de Pablo and if he/she wasn't then de Pablo needs to fire that agent. Either way, that would not be CBS' problem. That's a problem on de Pablo's end.
ReplyDeleteIf this article is to be believed (and that's a big "if" as far as I'm concerned), the bottom line is that CBS gave Cote de Pablo a very fair offer which she declined. That's on her.
Every union I've ever dealt with had pay and job based on seniority. Not sure how the SGA operates. That $20,000 per episode is more than some households make in a year so no pity party for her.
ReplyDeleteYep. She should come here and hand out food in Gary, Indiana for a week. See how these people survive on less than her raise for an entire year.
ReplyDeleteHopefully she put it in a savings account so she can earn 9/10 of 1 percent interest!
ReplyDeleteBrian only became a regular this past year,you can't use him as an example.While i don't think she deserved equal pay as some feel,she has the 3rd highest exposure on the show.Her storyline is more involved than all the others (except of course Mark and Michael). If one thinks about the show more than likely one would say Gibbs, Tony, Ziva, Tim, Abby, Ducky and Palmer, in that order..
ReplyDeleteThat's an $80,000 per episode raise from her contract 2 years ago. I wonder if she regrets holding out now. Actor salary news, along with sports stars, always depress me. As a teacher, I would be ecstatic to make $80,000 a year much less twice a month.
ReplyDeleteThat's how teaching works too. The longer you've worked in the district the more you get paid.
ReplyDeleteThe show held out on what she wanted (whether fair or not); now they're gonna have to rewrite their plans as a consequence.
ReplyDeleteIt was obvious they were building up the Tiva thing ever so slowly. Now they need to abandon it.
Yeah,can you imagine her living paycheck to paycheck like the rest of us!
ReplyDeleteDO NOT BELIEVE THIS STORY!!!!
ReplyDeleteEntertainment Weekly on August 17 2012 said that Michael Weatherly was making $157,000 per episode. I think someone is trying to make CDP look bad. She played in a show for 8 years and wanted to move on like most people.
ReplyDeleteNo, they did not offer her a salary on par. They offered her 200,000 which is not par to Weatherly who makes, even by your calculations, 225,000. (Probably more tho, by mine.) I have an agent; I know how they work. Yes, agents advocate for you but they also advise and sometimes tell you what you want and what you should ask for. If you really want something, like a big pay bump, they will go to bat for you BUT agents make more money when you make more money and that is big incentive for them to get the most money they can whenever they can. They need to competent enough to read the situation and advise their client accordingly. Blind faith in what your agent tells you can be a killer too.
ReplyDeleteIF(I agree it is a big if) this article is true, then somebody screwed up. Who screwed up the most remains to be seen. If it really did come down to 25,000 an episode then I'm thinking the onus is on CBS. It doesn't seem like a lot of money to keep the cast of their #1 show together. They are going up against 'The Shield' this fall and without the powerhouse that it 'Tiva' (God, I hate that word) they may very well lose in the 18-49 ratings.
And that's fine by me..
ReplyDeleteSince she has the right to take her agent's advice or not, the decision and the outcome are on her. Period. I can choose to take a broker's advice, but if I lose my money it is on me, no one else.
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that Bruce is using "on par" to mean money per season on the show, whereas you are using only the amount of pay. Again IF this article is correct, Weatherly makes $225,000 an episode and de Pablo would make $200,000 an episode. By your standards, that is not par. However, given that Weatherly has 2 more years of experience and looking at typical salary increases these actors have been seeing every two years, which is more in line with Bruce's meaning, then de Pablo is actually doing very well. She also got the same percentage raise (about 60%) if your calculations of $157,000 for Weatherly in his previous contract is correct. In fact, de Pablo's was slightly more.
A 60% raise is outstanding. In fact I don't know anyone who has ever been given a 60% raise for the same work at the same company within 2 years. I understand why it is hard to feel sympathy when people read about these kinds of salaries.
"No, they did not offer her a salary on par."
ReplyDeleteCote de Pablo has been a regular on NCIS for 2 fewer seasons than Weatherly. Therefore, I believe the offer she received to be on par and completely fair. It's clear that we disagree on this point which renders everything else moot and brings us to an impasse.
Plus my guess is that she is being paid big time for these guest spots.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, declining to come back in order to wrap Ziva's story might end up reflecting badly on her. At the very least, it would generate a helluva lot of discussion.
ReplyDeleteAbandoning it may actually be better creatively for the show. They can dump a lot of baggage and fan demands and instead concentrate on telling a fresh story. I actually think shows are much better off usually when they don't cater to fan factions, especially since no 1 online faction ever makes up the majority of the people watching the show as a whole. The internet only makes it look like that because online fandom is an infinitesimal portion of the whole.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. The difference wasn't much considering all she would make in the season and Michael. This is not a Criminal Minds situation at all.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! She's going to depend on her fan base to keep here name out in conversation since she's already missed pilot season for this year. I would expect to hear of some guest roles, maybe a movie. All of which she needs loyal fans to support.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm gonna believe TV Guide over you. Too bad you can't get your story straight. TV Guide's just out salary list has Michael and Pauley earning 175,000 per episode. If your story is half correct, and Cote was asking for 225K, then no wonder CBS said no.
ReplyDeleteHere's the thing, Before Michael's current contract began last year, he was earning 125K per ep, and Cote was at 120K plus a signing bonus. Michael was upped to 175K last year, so if Cote wanted parity, as you say, she'd be asking for 175K. And if she was offered 200K (again, as you say) then she'd be earning more than Michael.
You need new sources. And your story is irresponsible.
Yep. Same here in Indiana.
ReplyDeleteOr.... You want to leave - so you name a price you know your bosses will never go for. They say no, as expected and you can walk away guilt free.
ReplyDeleteThey will wish the had paid her that,ratings will drop
ReplyDeleteFrom s.3 through tot s.8 she was paid the least aMount i heard only 30000 each EP and only in season 8 she got a beter pay up tot 120000 zo Yeah i would also ask for an upgrade the others have been making so much more for so much long er on the hand were will she het paid like this ever again
ReplyDeleteumm Criminal Minds is on CBS not ABC they are on the same station
ReplyDeleteCBS air the episodes but it's ABC who own/produce it.
ReplyDeleteTo be completely honest (this is my own perspective on the case), I would just take the highest money CBS would be willing to offer, and not fight for anything more. If my intention was to leave, I would just say it outright. It may be that Hollywood pays their actors insane amount of money, but it's not like she needs the extra money in order to survive in this world. I wouldn't be able to describe how happy I would've been for $500,000 dollars a year, much less $4 million. These actors in Hollywood are getting too spoiled. I have to say, I think I agree with CBS on this decision. (In addition to the fact that Weatherly has been there for longer than her). Get a regular job and see how much income you get from that. That perspective should be enough to make them step back and realize how happy they should be with their current salaries, but if it's not and they simply demand more money, this is what happens. Sad really...
ReplyDeleteAfter having read the initial source article, I can't trust this. They spelled "Ziva" with an M at the end (Hello? Spell-check anyone?) and the language in the article is written in a personal matter, not a professional from a journalist stand ("Who isn't a fan of Cote de Pablo?") The article ends with "Les Moonves loves him" - I have no idea who that is. An executive producer perhaps? Would be great with at least credentials. And finally, there is no "NCIS airs blah blah at blah blah on the CBS Television Network" - which is actually a big part of articles such as this. Hell, then end the article with "And they’re thinking of new things for him.” - Like what? Anything you'd like to share? "ABC soaps" doesn't help us much, especially since this is a CBS show.
ReplyDeleteJust another screwball website needing some money and therefore writes a big-boy article like this.
She deserves the equal pay. She puts in the same, if not more, work, and Ziva-centric episodes are consistently the highest rated.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/cbs-television-studios-bring-cote-de-pablo-back-to-ncis#share
So fans got screwed because of the selfishness of an actress, well that's just sad.
ReplyDeleteYeah probably... but regardless, the creators seemed to be getting giddy about working the Tiva storyline into their show. In years past there were nods to it; this year it was actually there, and the creators teased it in their interviews as leading somewhere. Now they have to drop it.
ReplyDeleteAlthough if they chose to drop it over paying the $225k or whatever, maybe they aren't that hung up on it.
Criminal Minds is produced by ABC Studios while NCIS is produced by CBS TV Studios.
ReplyDeleteIf she's been there less than him, why should she get the same pay? Think of a stepladder, with each step being a season. He's higher on the ladder than she is. I think that's part of what made him get paid more than her, and I agree with it.
ReplyDeleteIn your comment, you said "she puts in the same, if not more, work" - so guest stars should all make just as much money as the regulars in the episode they are in? If they do the hardest work they possible can and have work enthusiasm out of this world - wouldn't that be the same, if not more, work as the regulars, who might possibly start to get bored with their character year after year? I feel your argumentation is a bit weak at this point.
If she's that desperate to get out, she should just say it outright. It's not like she has been in a single episode and is bored of it - she's been there for a long time. If that is true, I'd have so much more respect for her if she resigned normally and just honestly said she wanted something new without all these disputes.
ReplyDeleteYou got to know your worth in Hollywood - that I agree with. Can't hate on Cote - that I don't agree with. If it's true that she was eager for more money, I'd like to show her the rest of America (not to mention the rest of the world) and what they have in the bank.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that they do kill off long-running characters because of the money issues seems sad to me. The cast and crew must feel like a big family - getting removed from it by being killed on-screen is just a tragic way to go for the fans and for the show. I would take less of a pay and get to be on the show longer, if it was me. (that is, as long as I still wanted to be on, but a steady job that pays well - I'm in! Haha)
ReplyDeleteJust some things to consider.
ReplyDelete1) Anyone notice that Cote's Rep said the numbers didn't sound right? They didn't deny that the basic story was true, just that the numbers weren't spot on. So the I agree this isn't a very journalistic source, but that response itself is very telling.
2) Popular, working actors in Hollywood make crap loads of money across the board. If you're going to be mad at Cote for not taking whatever it is they offered her (and again, we don't really know what that is), then you really should be getting made at the whole Hollywood machine, not just one actress.
3) Pay in Hollywood has very little to do with how long you've been working some place. It has everything to do with how marketable/sell-able/popular you are. So the fact that Michael's been there longer is really irrelevant in this context. Remember, Hollywood isn't like the rest of the normal world, and everything needs to be taken in context.
I thought this would be the reason. Criminal Minds was far worse. I would be more than happy with $4 million a season. It's really hard for me to decide whether I think they should be payed based on seniority or length of time with the show.
ReplyDeleteI've been out of forums and didn't follow up on the news lately (my bad), but is this for real? Wow, I literally can't believe this. The whole time I've been reading about this negotiation, I thought it was just going to lead to one thing: the whole cast is back. I'm shocked. Wow... I'll still watch, for sure, but I can't imagine how the dynamic is going to change.
ReplyDeleteWhy should she get paid as much as MW - is that fair to MW? She only joined in Season 3, and MW is second billing. She and you overestimate the importance of Ziva to the show, Michael, Mark and Pauley are at the heart of it, Ziva is a stepchild.
ReplyDeleteI don't think the ratings will drop.
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
ReplyDeleteYep!!!!
ReplyDeleteBut she comes from Rich folk anyway, she probably thinks herself entitled to what Mark makes.
ReplyDeleteAs long as Mark, Michael and Pauley are around the show will last. And its not fair to other castmembers if she made as much as them, she has less seniority and she is not more important, that was her mistake.
ReplyDeleteSo becouse of the money we won't get TIVA?!? It's so sad... :(((
ReplyDeleteExcept that Pauley and Michael earn the same amount per episode ($175K) according to TV Guide info released just a few days ago. Cote was 5K behind Michael until he signed is 2012 contract. There's no reason to believe that CBS wasn't willing to pull her up to just a little behind MW and PP with her new contract. And if the 200K offer is correct (and I don't think it is), she'd be earning more than Michael, which does not make sense.
ReplyDeleteThe equal pay argument is not really in play here. Michael makes 175K per episode, not 225K as the article erroneously reports. So if Cote was offered $200K (probably also an erroneous report), she'd be earning more than Michael. That just was not going to happen. And if you're thinking CBS just wants to give less money to her than her male co-workers (the Criminal Minds argument), you'd have to explain why Pauley makes exactly the same amount of money as Michael.
ReplyDeleteWell, if CBS is mistreating its women, the network seems to be having no trouble paying Pauley the same salary they're paying Michael.
ReplyDeleteAccording to another article on this subject Cote leaving was CBS firing a warning shot over the bow - letting the rest of the cast know that only Harmon is irreplaceable. Ask for a raise and be shown the door is the message. Not cool CBS. This is the number one show on TV. Remember when Friends was number one and NBC did all it could to keep the cast together for the last couple of years to the tune of 1M each per episode. NBC recognized that the fans wanted the cast whole. Sadly, CBS is not as loyal to us.
ReplyDeleteAlex
TV Guide magazine confirms that it was a contract dispute. Picture isn't super clear, but you can read it.
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Different situation on Criminal Minds. A.J. and Kristen were on the show from the begining so they should have goten equal pay but Cote de Pablo joined NCIS in season 3 so it should be normal for her to get less than Michael!!!! In my opinion it was just pure greed and I'm actually very happy that she'll be gone!!!
ReplyDeleteReally I think if this is true, Cote's Nutz , stupid and a dumb cow. Where the hell does she think she going to make more money?????? There's a lot of cable shows where 250 to 500 thousand dollars is what you make for a 12 episode SEASON!!!!! If this is truly the reason Cote walked she's a dope going from 4 million a year to ZERO this a brain dead decision at best.
ReplyDeleteYep Cote's a rocket scientist 4 million dollars to Zero dollars .Not a wise financial move. If true this a great classic case of short sighted greed on her part , there is absolutely no where in 2013-2014 tv landscape where she can make more money today and possibly in the future especially cbs or Bellisario productions puts a sink on her. Sorry klutzy Cote's a moron if she walk away for this reason.
ReplyDeletePauley makes as much as MW
ReplyDeleteSuch Arrogance on her part!!! What was she thinking, everyone knows that MW and PP are more valued by CBS.
ReplyDeleteCote de Pablo's Utter Arrogance in asking to be paid more than, or even as much as MW - 2 years her senior and second billing....is fitting.....just like her character Ziva...the arrogance is her downfall. I doubt she could land another show at this point, she is so type cast as a shallow example of a woman.
ReplyDeleteGlad with the demise of TIVA it was annoying!!!! Give Tony a woman he can actually be with for the long houl without conflict of interest!!! That's why I liked him with Jeanne in season 4, I know it was undercover but it was the most real relationship he ever had on the show!!! I want to see that again - Tony finally settling down!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is their salary for season 11! You're talking about their salaries for season 10!
ReplyDeleteNo I'm not, Harry. I'm talking about their Season 11 salaries (175K); Michael and Pauley both signed two (2) year contracts for Seasons 10 AND 11 at a salary of 175K per episode for those two years. Last month, TV Guide confirmed those salaries at that level. At the end of Season 11 (if there is a Season 12), they'll renegotiate their contracts again at that time.
ReplyDeletethat ain't calling it fair. Michael has been with NCIS since their spin-off with JAG. you call that not fair? they should have at least, Pauley Perrette and David McCallum increased. but Cote, i don't know.
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