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Jul. 22nd, 2018 09:58 amDon't worry too much about the Buffy Reboot ...if you had any idea how many television shows are being scripted and produced by other people at the same time. Whedon is producing two (Buffy reboot and Pippa, along with show-running/writing one - Nevers), but Shonda Rhimes is doing about seven for Netflix and has three on HBO. And a $150 million dollar deal with Netflix. Keep in mind roughly half of that might make it to the screen. If you had any idea how many television shows were produced and written daily...it would blow your mind. Or how much these people are being paid to do it.
Rhimes has a "base" salary of $150 million plus the money to produce the shows. Base means, that's the amount without the benefits, etc attached. So in reality, she's probably making close to $200 million a year. Think about that for minute. I find it absurd that someone who does nothing but write and produce television shows makes that amount of money. While a person who is responsible for saving lives on a daily basis makes less than $100,000 a year if that. Shouldn't it be the opposite? I think we value entertainment and escape more than we value life or our world.
Super Producer Shonda Rhimes Describes Her Next Amibitions
Rhimes has a "base" salary of $150 million plus the money to produce the shows. Base means, that's the amount without the benefits, etc attached. So in reality, she's probably making close to $200 million a year. Think about that for minute. I find it absurd that someone who does nothing but write and produce television shows makes that amount of money. While a person who is responsible for saving lives on a daily basis makes less than $100,000 a year if that. Shouldn't it be the opposite? I think we value entertainment and escape more than we value life or our world.
Super Producer Shonda Rhimes Describes Her Next Amibitions
1)That was when she came upon an article in New York magazine about a fashionable young grifter, Anna Delvey, who swanned about New York with a beautiful crowd — only to end up in Rikers Island on charges of grand larceny.
“I knew exactly what the show was,” Ms. Rhimes said, “which is a very clear indicator.”
She bought the rights to the story, by a New York magazine staff writer, Jessica Pressler, and started writing almost immediately.
“I felt comfortable,” she said. “I slept differently.”
Betsy Beers, Ms. Rhimes’s producing partner since 2002, said she could tell Ms. Rhimes was onto something.
“What I heard was the excitement,” Ms. Beers said. “What I wait for is a tone in her voice — you hear this level of excitement in her voice, where she can’t stop talking about it.”
In addition to the show about the grifter, Ms. Rhimes has seven other series in the works at Netflix, ranging from period dramas to a documentary.
2) An adaptation of a group of lush romance novels set in Regency England — the Bridgerton Series, by Julia Quinn — that the “Scandal” veteran Chris Van Dusen will turn into a dramatic series.
3)A series based on “Reset,” a book by the former tech executive Ellen Pao about sexism in Silicon Valley. Ms. Rhimes said she was likely to write this one.
4)“The Warmth of Other Suns,” the award-winning 2010 nonfiction book by Isabel Wilkerson on the flight of African-Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North and the West. It will be adapted by the actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith.
5)“Pico & Sepulveda,” a series set in Mexican California during the 1840s.
6)An upstairs-downstairs series called “The Residence,” based on the 2015 nonfiction book of the same title, by Kate Andersen Brower, about the private lives of United States presidents, their families and White House staff.
7)“Sunshine Scouts,” a series that Ms. Rhimes described as a “darkly comic, ironic, twisty show about some foul-mouthed teenage girls who are trapped at the end of the world.” The writer and director Jill Alexander will be in charge of this one.
8)“Hot Chocolate Nutcracker,” a documentary centered on the dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen and her reimagining of the holiday ballet.