Actors On Dick Wolf NBC Series Reduce Episodes, ‘Bob ❤️ Abishola’ Cast Take Pay Cuts Amid Broadcast Budget Tightening
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: NBC earlier this week picked up all six Wolf Entertainment series, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime, for next season.
The renewals came with an asterisk as casts were told that they will appear in fewer episodes next year, I hear. The development comes on the heels of CBS recently renewing veteran drama Blue Bloods for a fourteenth season after the cast agreed to a 25% pay cut, as Deadline extensively reported.
We can now reveal that the actors on another recently renewed CBS series, comedy Bob ❤️ Abishola, also had to agree to a substantial, double-digit salary reduction for the show to get a Season 5 renewal (According to sources, it was less than 25%).
Blue Bloods comes from CBS sibling CBS Studios, Bob ❤️ Abishola from an outside supplier, Warner Bros. TV. Additionally, as Deadline reported, a S.W.A.T.
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