"things make sense."" According to ""Forbes"" magazine, Seinfeld's cumulative earnings from ""Seinfeld"" as of 2004 was $267 million, placing him at the top of the celebrity ""money rank"" that year. He reportedly turned down $5 million per episode, for 22 episodes, to continue the show for a 10th season. Seinfeld earned $100 million from syndication deals and stand-up performances in 2004, and $60 million in 2006. He also earned $10 million for appearing with Bill Gates in Microsoft's 2008 advertisements for Windows. Between June 2008 and June 2009, Seinfeld earned $85 million, making him the world's highest-paid comedian during that"
"Despite the enormous popularity and willingness of the cast to return for a tenth season, Seinfeld decided to end the show after season nine, believing he would thereby be able to ensure the show would maintain its quality and go out on top. NBC offered him over $100 million for a tenth season, but Seinfeld declined. A major controversy caused in this final season was the accidental burning of a Puerto Rican flag by Kramer in ""The Puerto Rican Day"". This scene caused a furor among Puerto Ricans, and as a result, NBC showed this episode only once. Jerry Seinfeld"
"defused the protestors by not letting this episode continue in syndication, as revealed in ""Inside Look"" on DVD. However, the episode would be added to the syndicated rerun package several years later uncut. After nine years on the air, NBC and Jerry Seinfeld announced on December 25, 1997, that the series would end production the following spring in 1998. The announcement made the front page of the major New York newspapers, including the ""New York Times"". Jerry Seinfeld was featured on the cover of ""Time"" magazine's first issue of 1998. The series ended with a seventy-five-minute episode (cut to 60"
"million total, to continue the show into a tenth season. The offer NBC made to Seinfeld was over three times higher per episode than anyone on TV had ever been offered before. Seinfeld told the network that he was not married nor had children, and wished to focus on his personal life. As reported in July 2007, he was the second-highest earner in the TV industry, earning at the time $60 million a year. The show became the first TV series to command over $1 million a minute for advertising–a mark previously attained only by the Super Bowl. According to"
"who was earning $578,000 at the time, asked for $1 million for the next five years, but took his lawyer's advice and declined the station's final offer of $650,000. The deadline to accept having passed, Martling twice attempted to accept the offer but was declined. He has since added other reasons to his departure, including his inability to sleep and perform effectively for the show, having to announce his failing marriage on the air, and the inability to address his alcohol abuse had he continued. In August 2001, a newspaper reported his wish to return, but Stern declined, partly due"
"watched regular series finale in U.S. TV history, behind ""M*A*S*H"", ""Cheers"" and ""The Fugitive"". However, the finale received mixed reviews from critics and fans of the show. The finale poked fun at the many rumors that were circulating, seeming to move into multiple supposed plots before settling on its true storyline—a lengthy trial where the gang is prosecuted for violating a ""Good Samaritan law"" and sentenced to prison terms. According to ""Forbes"" magazine, Jerry Seinfeld's earnings from the show in 1998 came to US$267 million, including syndication earnings. He refused NBC's offer of $5 million per episode, or over $100"
"The Finale (Seinfeld) ""The Finale"" is the two-part series finale of the American sitcom ""Seinfeld"". They are the 179th and 180th episodes of the show and the 23rd and 24th episodes of the ninth season. It aired on NBC May 14, 1998 to an audience of 76 million viewers. Its initial running time was 1 hour and 15 minutes. The fake working title for this show was ""A Tough Nut to Crack"" to throw off outsiders about the contents of the episode. For the first and final time since the end of season seven, Jerry performs a stand-up comedy routine."
"worth was $900 million. However, the estimate according to a former Reuters reporter does not take into account the divorce. David also disputes the figure, saying he has nowhere near that amount. Larry David Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American comedian, writer, actor, director, and television producer. He and Jerry Seinfeld created the television series ""Seinfeld"", of which David was the head writer and executive producer from 1989 to 1997. David has subsequently gained further recognition for the HBO series ""Curb Your Enthusiasm,"" which he also created, in which he stars as a semi-fictionalized version of"
"watched episode of this season with 37.3 million viewers. The Money ""The Money"" is the 146th episode of the sitcom ""Seinfeld"". This was the 12th episode for the eighth season. It aired on NBC on January 16, 1997. Jerry's parents sell the Cadillac to Jack Klompus for $6,000 in order to give Jerry some money to help him out (since he bounced a check in ""The Little Jerry""), which disappoints Jerry. They, along with Kramer, suggest that Jerry might try a career move. Elaine talks about her J. Peterman stock options and buys George coffee; this makes George think she"
"unless production costs were cut, Shearer and the other cast members accepted a 30 percent pay cut, down to just over $300,000 per episode. On May 13, 2015, Shearer announced he was leaving the show. After the other voice actors signed a contract for the same pay, Shearer refused, stating it was not enough. Al Jean made a statement from the producers saying ""the show must go on,"" but did not elaborate on what might happen to the characters Shearer voiced. On July 7, 2015, Shearer agreed to continue with the show, on the same terms as the other voice"
"network executives had decided not to pick up ""The Seinfeld Chronicles"" for a first season, some of them were reluctant to give up on it, as they felt the series had potential. Rick Ludwin, one of the show's greatest supporters, eventually made a deal with Tartikoff, giving up some of his own development money and cancelling a Bob Hope special, so that the entertainment division could order four more episodes of ""The Seinfeld Chronicles""; these formed the rest of the show's first season. Although this was a very low order number for a new series (the smallest sitcom order in"
"was watched by nearly 11% of American households, and received generally favorable reviews from critics, who reacted with disappointment that NBC did not order a first season. Convinced that the show had potential, and supported by the positive reviews, NBC executive Rick Ludwin managed to convince his superiors to order a four-episode first season (the smallest order in TV history), by offering a part of his personal budget in return. The show, renamed ""Seinfeld"", would go on to become the most successful sitcom in television history. The series opens with Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld) and George Costanza (Jason Alexander) seated"
"its first season the summer of 1990, NBC ordered thirteen more episodes. Larry David believed that he and Jerry Seinfeld had no more stories to tell, and advised Seinfeld to turn down the order, but Seinfeld agreed to the additional episodes. Season two was bumped off its scheduled premiere of January 16, 1991, due to the outbreak of the (Persian) Gulf War. It settled into a regular time slot on Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. and eventually flipped with veteran series ""Night Court"" to 9:00. TV critics championed ""Seinfeld"" in its early seasons, even as it was slow to cultivate a"
"of ten episodes lasting from 7 to 25 minutes each. Season 2 (2013) had six episodes, with guests including Don Rickles and David Letterman. In June 2013, he appeared on rapper Wale's album ""The Gifted"", on the song ""Outro About Nothing."" Seinfeld received coverage for his speech at the 2014 Clio Awards ceremony, where he received an honorary award, as media reporters said that he ""mocked"" and ""ripped apart"" the advertising industry; his statement of ""I love advertising because I love lying"" received particular attention. On February 15, 2015, Seinfeld made a special appearance as a presenter on ""SNL 40"","
"popularity and lacked freshness in the script; it was canceled in the middle of the 1965–66 television season. Eastwood made his first attempt at directing when he filmed several trailers for the show, although he was unable to convince producers to let him direct an episode. In the show's first season Eastwood earned $750 an episode. At the time of ""Rawhide""s cancellation, he received $119,000 an episode as severance pay. In late 1963, Eastwood's co-star on ""Rawhide"", Eric Fleming, rejected an offer to star in an Italian-made western called ""A Fistful of Dollars"", to be directed in a remote region"
"The Money ""The Money"" is the 146th episode of the sitcom ""Seinfeld"". This was the 12th episode for the eighth season. It aired on NBC on January 16, 1997. Jerry's parents sell the Cadillac to Jack Klompus for $6,000 in order to give Jerry some money to help him out (since he bounced a check in ""The Little Jerry""), which disappoints Jerry. They, along with Kramer, suggest that Jerry might try a career move. Elaine talks about her J. Peterman stock options and buys George coffee; this makes George think she is ""sticking it"" to him that she makes more"
"head of late night and special events for NBC, however, diverted money from his budget by canceling a Bob Hope television special, and the next 4 episodes were filmed. These episodes were highly rated as they followed summer re-runs of ""Cheers"" on Thursdays at 9:30 p.m., and the series was finally picked up. At one point NBC considered airing these episodes on Saturdays at 10:30 p.m., but gave that slot to a short-lived sitcom called ""FM"". The series was renamed simply ""Seinfeld"" after the failure of short-lived 1990 ABC series ""The Marshall Chronicles"". After airing the remaining four episodes of"
"turn her down. Also in Series 11, husband and wife team Roger and Leslie rejected a combined offer from Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne of 50% of their wool bedding company Baavet, for £130,000. In the final episode of Series 11, after accepting Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden's offer of £50,000 for 40% (later dropping to 30%) of his company Bobo Buddies, James Roupell turned the deal down after filming. Instead, he found the financial help he required elsewhere, without giving up any equity of his company. In series 12, Daniel and Mat of Pure Pet Food turned down both"
"episodes were ""The Cadillac"" in which George plans to date award-winning actor Marisa Tomei and ""The Bottle Deposit"" with Elaine and Sue Ellen participating in a bidding war to buy JFK's golf clubs in an auction. The show's ratings were still going strong in its final two seasons. Larry David left at the end of season seven, although he continued to voice Steinbrenner, so Seinfeld assumed David's duties as showrunner, and, under the direction of a new writing staff, ""Seinfeld"" became a faster-paced show. The show no longer contained extracts of Jerry performing stand-up comedy—Jerry had no time or energy"
"was a minor success at the box office. ""I'm not studying,"" said Byrnes at the time. ""Why should I? I get all my experience in front of the camera. You get in front of the camera every day and you've got to learn."" Byrnes walked off the show in the second season, demanding a bigger part and higher pay. In November 1959 Warners put him on suspension. They eventually offered $750 a week but he refused. In April 1960 they came to terms and Byrnes went back to work. Owing to restrictions in his Warner Brothers television contract, Byrnes was"
"given him a salary of any more than $5 million)–would be cut in the wake of his declining ratings, license fees, and advertising revenues. Ratings for ""Judge Joe Brown"" were declining during its last several seasons on the air. In the 2013 February sweeps, the show was down 20% to a 2.4 live plus same day rating from a 3.0 last year according to Nielsen Media Research. Brown refused to do the show under the new terms. Rather, he shopped his program to other distributors. Station executives told ""Broadcasting & Cable"" they were less than happy to be learning about"
"proper series finale would not be done because it would be too expensive, also confirming the show's cancellation. A retrospective episode was to be aired on ""The CW Network"" to conclude the eight-year series. However, the characters' storylines would receive no resolutions as the retrospective/series finale did not come to pass. The network offered the actors only half of their usual episodic salary to take part, and the actors collectively turned them down. Jill Marie Jones left the show at the end of Season 6. Akil stated, ""I would love for her (Jones) to come back, but Jill doesn't want"
"during a national television interview in his home, Sheen publicly demanded a 50% raise for the show. Already the highest-paid actor on television, Sheen demanded $3 million per episode, claiming that in comparison to the amount that the series was making, he was ""underpaid."" He later retracted that demand. A March 3, 2011, telephone survey of 1,000 people found that 71% of them had an unfavorable impression of Sheen and 16% had a positive opinion of him. On March 7, 2011, CBS and Warner Bros. officially fired Sheen from the show after eight seasons. The official statement read: ""After careful"
"in production"". An entire season's worth of episodes which could reportedly fill six months of schedule are left unaired, following the cancellation of the show. Upon hearing of the show's cancellation, Vivid Entertainment president Steven Hirsch sent a letter to June Shannon, offering her and her former live-in partner, Mike Thompson, US$1 million to appear in a pornographic film. Hirsch stated that the studio's BBW themed productions have become a very popular genre on Vivid.com and VividTV, and he would make the couple's experience ""enjoyable"" for them both, as well as give them creative input. But June refused, explaining, ""I"
"Jerry Seinfeld, was killed. Charles's episodes also covered such controversial topics as Nazis (in ""The Limo""), a psychotic stalker (in ""The Opera"") and a hospital patient committing suicide (in ""The Bris""). A season two episode he wrote, ""The Bet"", concerning Elaine buying a handgun to protect herself, was never filmed because NBC, some of the cast and the show's director felt the gun content was too provocative. Charles claimed that his writing on ""Seinfeld"" was heavily influenced by ""Dragnet"", ""Superman"" and Abbott and Costello. Charles said he was instrumental in the development of Cosmo Kramer; he felt that ""Jerry and"
"Jerry never made copies of the many receipts that he had collected over the years, and the episode ends with him tracking them down individually by phone. The Truth (Seinfeld) ""The Truth"" is the 19th episode of ""Seinfeld"". It is the second episode of the show's third season, first airing on September 25, 1991. Directed by David Steinberg, this is the first episode of the show (other than the pilot) not directed by Tom Cherones. In 1985, Kramer manages to persuade Jerry to donate to a fake relief fund for the Krakatoa eruption (which actually erupted in 1883, 102 years"
"Seinfeld Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City, the show features a handful of Jerry's friends and acquaintances, including best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), friend and former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is often described as being ""a show about nothing"", as many of its"
"J."" Tartikoff kept the lunch box on display in his office. Jerry Seinfeld credited Tartikoff with saving ""Seinfeld"" from cancellation during its first four years of struggling ratings. Johnny Carson broke the news of his retirement in February 1991 to Tartikoff at the Grille in Beverly Hills. For several days only Tartikoff and NBC Chairman Bob Wright knew of the planned retirement. Tartikoff wrote in his memoirs that his biggest professional regret was cancelling the series ""Buffalo Bill"", which he later went on to include in a fantasy ""dream schedule"" created for a ""TV Guide"" article that detailed his idea"
"to 15 due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The season finale aired on May 8, 2008. After Liz broke up with Floyd in the summer, she is looking for ways to rebound. When Jerry Seinfeld confronts Jack about a new marketing campaign which featured clips of Seinfeld's sitcom, ""Seinfeld"", in all NBC shows, he has a chance encounter with Liz that gives her some much-needed advice. During the ""TGS"" summer hiatus, Jenna becomes overweight due to performing in the Broadway show ""Mystic Pizza: The Musical"" (based on the real 1988 film ""Mystic Pizza""). Tracy has encountered some"
"8-year-olds behind. This is purely an adult show."" Each episode cost an estimated $2 million to $2.5 million to produce, making it at the time of its release one of the most expensive half-hour television comedies ever. Long before its broadcast, the series was nearly cancelled, following the near-death of Roy Horn in October 2003; but after his condition improved, Siegfried & Roy urged NBC to continue production. Katzenberg recalled, ""There was a short period of time where we all just rocked out on our heels and couldn't be particularly creative and certainly not very funny. But Siegfried kept saying,"
"Barry Meyer, chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment, ""Seinfeld"" made $2.7 billion through June 2010. the show has made an estimated $4.06 billion in syndication. Steve Bannon, who invested in the show, later said, ""We calculated what it would get us if it made it to syndication. We were wrong by a factor of five"". ""Seinfeld"" began as a twenty-three-minute pilot titled ""The Seinfeld Chronicles"". Created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, developed by NBC executive Rick Ludwin, and produced by Castle Rock Entertainment, it was a mix of Seinfeld's stand-up comedy routines and idiosyncratic, conversational scenes focusing on mundane aspects"
"his decision to retire in 2007, and several networks and studios including ABC, Fox, Sony, and Tribune expressed interest in his services after leaving ""Tonight"". Jeff Zucker, then-President and CEO of NBCUniversal, sought to keep Leno from defecting to a competitor. Leno rejected several NBC offers for broadcast network daytime slots or subscription TV slots, a series of recurring specials, and a half-hour show at 8 pm five nights a week featuring Leno's ""Tonight"" monologue. The network had in 1981 considered moving ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" to 10 pm; Zucker, who in 2007 offered Oprah Winfrey an hour"
"rejection, MTV purchased the program in May 2001. All the original character designs were much different from what they would become even though the characters kept the same physical attributes and appearance. Each episode was budgeted at approximately $750,000. Despite being an MTV/Teletoon Co-production, the show was co-produced with Touchstone Television, marking as Disney's third adult animated series after ""The PJs"" and """". In forming the show's central cast, they found themselves limited in the number of historical figures they could depict, in consideration with avoiding ""litigious estates"" (such as the families of Albert Einstein or Marilyn Monroe) and keeping"