A long read from The Hollywood Reporter, with a court arbitrator concluding that Fox Studios deliberately accepted lower than market rate license fees from Fox Broadcasting for episodes of Bones. "Hollywood accounting" practices made the show "unprofitable" meaning that the stars and creators didn't share in potential profits that they were contractually entitled to. There are suggestions of lying, cheating and double-dealing.
What's really interesting is the Hulu aspect, suggesting that Hulu severely underpaid Fox for episodes of the show. Since Fox is a shareholder in Hulu, it was in the corporate's overall interests to make the service more valuable, and that could be done in part by providing cheap programming. The outcome could be that other shows examine how studios and networks sold their shows to Hulu. If Hulu was getting lots of sweetheart deals, then that could have consequences for the service long term. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/fox-rocked-by-179-million-bones-ruling-lying-cheating-reprehensible-studio-fraud-1190346 Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
