doubleohfive
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This is totally devil's advocate land but they already pay to use Munch on SVU, don't they?
Chris Noth leaving L&O: CI. :(
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This is totally devil's advocate land but they already pay to use Munch on SVU, don't they?
I was just spewing bullshit by the way. I edited it.
doubleohfive
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Makes you wonder ... did DS9 have to pay Voyager to use the Emh and Dr. Zimmerman? Or did TNG have to pay to use Bashir? How does that work when its an in-house crossover? Did Joss get paid every time Willow or Buffy showed up on Angel?
It goes by creator, not by show, I think. Rick Berman & Michael Piller created Bashir, and they were producing TNG, so he was already their character to do with as they pleased. But the EMH and Zimmerman were created by Berman, Piller, and Jeri Taylor, and of those, only Berman was actively working on DS9 when those characters appeared, so Piller and Taylor would've gotten royalties, I believe. As for Whedon, again, the characters were already his, so I don't think anybody would've gotten an extra payment.
A better example is the Stargate franchise. In Stargate Atlantis, we've never seen Jack O'Neill and/or Daniel Jackson guest star in the same episode with Samantha Carter and/or Teal'c. That's because O'Neill and Jackson were created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich for the original movie, while Carter and Teal'c were created by Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright for Stargate SG-1. So having them all (or one from column A and one from column B) would require paying royalties to three different people (I'm not counting Wright since he's a co-creator of Atlantis). But keeping the two groups separate means they don't have to pay as many extra royalties for a single episode. At least, that's my understanding.
I guess there are some extra royalties being paid for having Munch as a regular on SVU. But CI is being produced by a cable network now and probably doesn't have as big a budget, so I doubt they'd pony up for having Goldblum play the Raines character. Especially since that show flopped and the character would be poorly remembered.
Munch was created by Tom Fontana (on Homicide: Life on the Street), not Dick Wolf. Although, AFAIK, those two are friends - Wolf even named Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina's L&O character) after him - so that may have been a factor in Munch's transfer. Then again, not all of the shows that Munch appeared in were like that.
As for the number of episodes: If that is a factor, then using Raines on L&O wouldn't be that hard - as I said, Raines only lasted for seven episodes. I'm sure they could work something out.
As for the number of episodes: If that is a factor, then using Raines on L&O wouldn't be that hard - as I said, Raines only lasted for seven episodes. I'm sure they could work something out.
You're probably the only one. I much rather have Wheeler stick around forever.
I had forgotten about that episode. But my point still stands. I sincerely doubt that Wolf would down that route.
It doesn't matter how many episodes Raines lasted. It matters on how many episodes of Law and Order that Raines appears in.
Yeah it's always sad to see a detective go. I was a Noth fan ever since his days with the original show. Though to e honest, he hasn't been nearly as much fun since they've made him the 'responsible' one.
Don't think I've ever seen Goldblum play anything besides the nerdy science type. So this should be interesting.
Don't think I've ever seen Goldblum play anything besides the nerdy science type. So this should be interesting.
I don't know that they slashed the per-episode budget, but Season 8 will only be 16 episodes in length, versus the usual 22 episodes.
Too bad. Chris Noth was always the best thing about L&O - even the first time around.
I answered my own question about the budget when I read the Yahoo news story. Goldblum is taking in $250,000 per episode he's in.
There was a quote from Noth up on IMDB during the week where he says there's no chance of an L&O movie franchise especially with it being on 3 nights a week.
Is anyone going to start a review thread for this week's episode?
Yeah, that was because USA is trying to cross-promote as much as possible and drum up viewership for In Plain Sight. At this rate, I'm expecting Mary McCormack to wind up taking a chairshot on WWE Raw or something.
I would rather see her compete in one of those diva contests
God forbid they should ever crossover with Monk...