"Law & Order: SVU" will be returning in the fall with its two stars.
After lengthy negotiations, Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have inked new deals to continue on the crime procedural, which is coming back for an 11th season in the fall. [...]
Sources said Hargitay and Meloni, who regularly negotiate their contracts together, have inked one-year deals with an option for a second year.
And, despite the congloms and particularly NBC Universal being in a cost-cutting mode, both Hargitay and Meloni are said to have received salary increases to their most recent paychecks of about $385,000 an episode. [...]
via THR.com.
I’m definitely in the wrong line of work.
me to dam wish i had that kind of money
I wish them well. They will have a highly competive time slot in the fall against Criminal Minds, Glee, The Beautiful Life and the new ABC Comidies. I look for SVU to bleed viewership with the unsewn good will NBC has created with Leno at 10pm 5 nights a week.
The only competition it has is Criminal Minds. The new ABC comedies are terrible and so Beauitful Life. Glee looks like a bomb.
Since they carry the show NBC is getting them cheap. It wouldn’t be SVU without them.
385,000 per episode is so big!!!
Wow. They’re really overpaid!
Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni deserve their raises and huge paychecks and I am thrilled that they will be back! SVU could not survive without them and they are doing NBC a huge favor by returning! Also, Yes Criminal Minds will beat SVU in total viewers but SVU does very well in the 18-49 category and thats all that really matters
Glad they’re back!!