In the last several episodes of "Friends," NBC paid the key *seven* actors ***one million dollars EACH... per EPISODE!*** That's **7 million dollars a week**, just for the performances! Not counting all of the *other* production costs associated with the show! And that was a few years ago, so a million dollars isn't worth quite as much today as it was back then. That network was spending BIG bucks on a mere HALF-hour-long show!
Fast-forward to today. We have the possibility of a contestant winning a million dollars on "1 vs. 100" -- but ONLY if he can get questions right until ALL 100 members of the "Mob" have missed them. Like THAT's ever gonna happen!
If you know the mechanism by which "Deal or No Deal" works, you know, too, that NO one will ever win a million dollars *there*, either -- unless they start having cases routinely containing more than a million dollars.
And "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" OBVIOUSLY accepts people who score *average* at best on their test.
2007-08-14
08:34:51
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