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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 438483" data-attributes="member: 495">Ritter would have been better off banding together with DeWitt and Somers to get profit participation (i.e. backend points) in the show. It made over $500 million in revenue in its initial syndication cycle. The three leads deserved a piece of that. And the producers ddn’t have to share it with a studio either, since TC was an independent production.But I believe that John and Joyce were a naive in terms of the money the show was making and didn’t do anything about it. Suzanne wasn’t, but she didn’t have savvy representation to position herself for success in the negotiations. They absolutely should have banded together; it’s amazing to me that none of their agents made that happen.I won’t blame John all that much for not telling Joyce about the spinoff; he was an employee, not a manager. And she was a colleague, not a friend. He naively trusted the producers of the show to handle the situation. And she was naive if she didn’t realize that they were going to eventually spin off the main character of the show, as they did with the British original. The lion’s share of the blame lies with producer Don Taffner and associates - they’re the ones who exploited the naïveté of their young cast, treated the women as disposable, and enjoyed humiliating Suzanne with her tiny part in the fifth season.</blockquote>

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