Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco and Jim Parsons.
Being on TV in America has serious benefits, like the ability to pull in multi-BILLIONS of rands.
Variety released a listing of the highest earning TV talent this week and the results are a juice-bomb.
They sourced their findings from a survey they did of actors, managers, agents, lawyers etc. and compiled three lists that give an estimate of the highest earners in the industry divided by the categories Comedy, Drama and Reality/Host/News.
The results reveal that the trends haven't changed in over 10 years because the cast of The Big Bang Theory are the toppest most top earners, like the F.R.I.E.N.D.S. cast used to be back in the early 2000s.
They scored themselves a cool $1 million an episode at the time, the exact same salary that the three Big Bang stars earn today. That's $24 million a season or rather, R332 million per season.
Ellen DeGeneres is also making herself a ginormous fortune by pulling in $20 million a year, which equates to over R276 million annually a.k.a. over a billion rand for four years. We know she's been doing her talk show for years and she's not going anywhere soon so her earnings run into a mindblowing billions of rands.
Most surprising on the list are the salaries of the Prison Break cast who are returning for a Season 5 series revival early next year.
Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield), Dominic Purcell (Lincoln Burrows) and Sarah Wayne Callies (Dr Sara Tancredi) are each scoring themselves $175,000 per episode (R2,422,288), which is totally ridiculous when you consider that Sara had her head chopped off in Season 3!
Here's a link to the lists for you to pour over:
Salaries of TV’s Top Talent Revealed.
I'm pleased that Jeff's raking in $4 million (R55 million) per season for Survivor - he deserves it bigtime because he's never at home.