idk, with a sitcom like friends/ seinfeld. its easy to pay your actors a million dollars every ep. most of the action is in an apartment and a Coffee shop.
Hbo has to pay loads for production value.
Im pretty sure Dea made more money from Joey than she did for The Sopranos
I don't think you fully understand the premise of this thread.
yes, sitcoms from networks get rerun and syndicated, or at least they used to. television is dying now to some degree so that's probably becoming less of a thing. so those were definitely considered easy money and good money in the TV industry since forever. especially if you got on a show that aired over 100 episodes or whatever.
it's not about how much she got paid per episode when it aired, or how popular it was tho.
HBO shows, especially the most popular ones, never see syndication. never get re-aired off of the HBO network. there is no residuals for something that airs solely on a network with no advertising.
it's a blessing and a curse to be on those shows in a way, especially the ones that ran a lot of seasons. spend 5-7 television seasons of your life on a show that doesn't really get residuals despite being considered one of the greatest shows of all time, just kind of wild to think about.
