Modern Family Cast Suing To Get Big Raises
The six lead actors of Modern Family have filed a lawsuit to try and void their contracts. They are claiming that the contracts run for longer than the seven year maximum for personal services contracts. Considering that they run from 2009-2016 that would make them 7 years. What they are trying to do here is to get bigger raises. Ed O'Neill makes the most by far of everyone but he joined in on the lawsuit. The rest of the cast is being offered $150,000 per episode and they want much more. They want numbers approaching what the Friends cast made. Not quite $1M, but way more than $150K an episode. There are about 26 episodes in a season, so you can see they are not exactly hurting for money, but they want to share in the good fortune of the show. Production was supposed to start yesterday with a table reading but that has been delayed and no one is going to work until all of this salary stuff is settled. With all six lead cast members on board and united, they will probably get whatever they are asking.
