I don't think we know what her stipulations were. They may not have been schedule related. We also don't know what went on backstage as it were or during negotiations with any of these actors. And we never will - because negotiations are confidential. Also, on-set gossip is well like online gossip, school gossip and work-place gossip - 99% of it is false. ;-)
All I know is what the FOX contact we had acurately used for spoilers for the 4 years prior that that said about it at the time, and this person was always right about spoilers even six months in advance (such as Tara's death). But, of course, there's always room for miscommunication.
She most likely did want to do the finale
On she definitely wanted to do the finale. She was on Jay Leno saying so. But contract negotiations with FOX broke down over lines about salary and being prominently featured in the finale, and FOX basically going that they saw no reason to make any concessions for an actor for a show that had been cancelled.
always found the whole bit about oh, Gellar will return the favor of DB showing up in her show - hilarious. First off - DB's didn't do it for Gellar, nor was it a personal favor.
I had never thought it was a personal favor for DB or vice versa. DB and SMG had long passed the point of being chummy with one another. I was talking about it having been an internal understanding of FOX and ME's. Clearly, nothing on paper or it wouldn't have gone down the way it did at the time, but 'understanding' enough that there were several ME people openly ticked off about it.
You know that David Boreanze had a television development deal with Fox outside of Mutant Enemy and that's why he got the Bones gig - right?
Yeah. Basically. And I know that the guy hired to be DB's driver by FOX/WB didn't have anything good to say about the guy. But that's just gossip, and I don't pay much attention to it. I gathered that DB wasn't as a general rule super popular with crew for being somewhat mercurial in temperment. ::shrug::
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All I know is what the FOX contact we had acurately used for spoilers for the 4 years prior that that said about it at the time, and this person was always right about spoilers even six months in advance (such as Tara's death). But, of course, there's always room for miscommunication.
She most likely did want to do the finale
On she definitely wanted to do the finale. She was on Jay Leno saying so. But contract negotiations with FOX broke down over lines about salary and being prominently featured in the finale, and FOX basically going that they saw no reason to make any concessions for an actor for a show that had been cancelled.
always found the whole bit about oh, Gellar will return the favor of DB showing up in her show - hilarious. First off - DB's didn't do it for Gellar, nor was it a personal favor.
I had never thought it was a personal favor for DB or vice versa. DB and SMG had long passed the point of being chummy with one another. I was talking about it having been an internal understanding of FOX and ME's. Clearly, nothing on paper or it wouldn't have gone down the way it did at the time, but 'understanding' enough that there were several ME people openly ticked off about it.
You know that David Boreanze had a television development deal with Fox outside of Mutant Enemy and that's why he got the Bones gig - right?
Yeah. Basically. And I know that the guy hired to be DB's driver by FOX/WB didn't have anything good to say about the guy. But that's just gossip, and I don't pay much attention to it. I gathered that DB wasn't as a general rule super popular with crew for being somewhat mercurial in temperment. ::shrug::