>
>All six cast members of the [Hit TV show Friends]
> are demanding big raises, threatening to
>leave the show immediately if they don't get about $100,000 per show --
>each.
>
>Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow
>and Matt LeBlanc signed five-year contracts for about $22,500 per episode
>when the show started two years ago. All six cast members lived in
>obscurity before the show. All six are now international stars. All six
>now have movie careers and have lined up lucrative television and print
>commercial accounts.
>
>The thinking is -- three more years is a long time to suffer under the thin
>initial WARNER BROS. contract.
>
> [..] WARNERS has sold FRIENDS into syndication for a cool $4 million per
>episode, sure the FRIENDS merchandizing franchise alone is said to have made
>The Shield a hardy eight-digit profit pie ...
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