The Newest Reality Show - The Marketplace

No point in arguing with sucess - brace for an upcoming season of wall-to-wall reality TV.

Victoria Riskin, president of the 8,500 strong Writers Guild of America, said: "Our members are concerned that the plethora of reality programming is impacting them in terms of job opportunities.

Malcolm in the Middle, Jane Kaczmarek - $150,000 per episode

"There is a fair amount of anxiety that these shows are cheap to make and developing new series is too expensive."

Will & Grace, Debra Messing and Eric McCormack - $250,000 per episode

Meanwhile, the Screen Actors Guild is not happy either.

The West Wing, Martin Sheen - $300,000 per episode

Its president, Melissa Gilbert, says: "It's a terrible trend. My concern is that once the networks get comfortable with a certain kind of programme, it becomes very tough to make a trend go away. "

The Friends cast - 1.2 million per episode

Stacie Lipp, who has written for Roseanne and Married with Children, went to pitch an idea to CBS the morning after the first Survivor finale.

Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray Romano - 1.8 million per episode

"Nobody listened," she recalled. "They were buzzing. It could have been the best sitcom ever and we were doomed."

The heart bleeds.

Watching a bunch of highschool and college dropouts learn the rules of supply and demand.

Priceless.

Posted by Kate at June 8, 2004 11:35 PM