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Here's the annual list of TV celebs who make more money than you
This annual list from Forbes is half "wow, I didn't know they made that much" and half "oh my God, Oprah made more money in the last minute than I've made in the past five years." But it's a fun way to see who's making what. Some of the people you pretty much assume will be on the list, but there are a few surprises too.
Oprah is indeed on top again. From June 2006 to June 2007 she made $260 million. I could pay off my Visa with that money. Number two isn't even on TV anymore: Jerry Seinfeld. He made $60 million during that year. I won't spoil the rest of the list for you, but let's just say that the top twenty includes two people from American Idol, someone from a reality show featuring models, and a whole bunch of talk show hosts, both daytime and nighttime.
The list is also a TV show. The Forbes TV 20 will premiere on E! tomorrow night at 5pm.
Out of the Blogosphere
So Bob Barker is gone from The Price Is Right. Check out the Best Week Ever tribute to the silver fox. - ABC and CBS try to upstage Matt Lauer's interview with Princes Williams and Harry.
- Tim Goodman has some final (?) thoughts on that Sopranos ending.
- TV Guide has the winners list from The Daytime Emmy Awards.
- Forbes has its annual Celebrity 100 list. How can the "cast of Grey's Anatomy" be counted as one entry?
- Somehow, David Hasselhoff gets sole custody of his kids.
- trivialTV is a blog you should be reading.
TV stars on the Forbes Celebrity 100
Everyone has a list these days, and Forbes is no exception. Judging by a combination of money earning power and "sizzle," the editors have come up with a list of the top 100. Most are movie stars and music stars, but some TV people are on the list too, including Oprah Winfrey (#3), the cast of The Sopranos (#9), Donald Trump (#12), and Ryan Seacrest (#88). I would think that Seacrest would be higher on the list, since he's making a ton of cash right now (in almost every aspect of media) and hosts the #1 TV show.Who do you think should not be on this list, and who's missing?
What happens to pilots that don't make it?
During this upfronts week, you'll not only hear about the shows that make the schedule, you'll hear about pilots that didn't make it. But what happens to the pilots that don't make it? The pilots that are never seen by the public (unless they make it to the internet, which couldn't happen years ago), what happens to them? Forbes has an interesting article about failed pilots (and if you'd like to read a great book on failed pilots, try to track down a copy of Lee Goldberg's two books, Unsold Television Pilots I and II.)Forbe's also lists the Top 10 Failed Pilots, and while it doesn't include Samurai (with Riptide's Joe Penny as a lawyer by day, sword-wielding superhero by night!), it does include Ethel Is An Elephant, about a guy who moves into a NYC apartment with an elephant roommate; Poochinski, with Peter Boyle as a cop who is killed on duty and comes back as a dog; Rewrite For Murder, with George Clooney and Pam Dawber as mystery writers; Wil Wheaton in 13 Thirteenth Avenue, about a kid who moves into a new apartment building and has vampires and werewolves as neighbors (!), and L.A. Confidential, a TV version of the movie, with Kiefer Sutherland! Wow, I actually would have loved to have seen that.
[via TV Tattle]
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