Pete is the latest and biggest hit on TV. Premier with a 95% rating of rotten tomatoes And an average of 10 million viewers Through its 14 episodes season, the play is a sincere cut according to all metrics. It is also Extremely complicated show to doWith a wide team of characters that make up the whole team of the emergency room in the hospital.

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In many ways, the show is the return of the network medical drama "Air" (which was the source of A. Court procedure for many conversations), but innovated with certain modern touches to bring in 21st century medical drama. The brightest examples are his hard realism, which creates tension with exactly the reflection of what Being inside the emergency room is really similarIs, despite the antiquity of the soap opera on other medical plays.

The play is also an innovation behind the scenes in how it pays its crew members. Normally, the actors audition for the role and after being accepted for part, a gentle dance of negotiations between the production and the agents of the actor and the lawyers are taking place. It is a battle of will that is as old as the time between studies trying to pay as little as possible and the actors trying to extract the maximum value for their work. Pete feels that with an unusual strategy that could be the future of Hollywood casting.

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Instead of negotiating individually with each acting article, Pete has made a fixed two -stage salary, where the key roles are allegedly collected at 50k USD per episode, while smaller parts are offered 35K CC per episode without negotiations. According to The deadlineThis would position Pete in the "low-to-level TV wage range", with a warning that the Starwear and Executive Producer Noah Will is not marked at this pay limit, making an exception to the rule.

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Sources close to production say this model is the only circumstance of Pete production that requires a break in typical salary negotiations. For a show as "Pete", which boasts a spray team and "every hour is in real -time structure" that everyone needs to be available at any moment, every repetitive part has the potential to see in the background of a scene, even if they have no lines. Traditional acting salaries in these circumstances could ballon and make a grounded, real project as a "pete" impossible for a funding studio. It also speeds up the casting process, allowing production to quickly shed roles without the risk of negotiations to break down and send them all back into the drawing board in search of a new actor.

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However, these same problems with production also result in that actors have to work much more than a typical show. Pete actors reportedly work for seven out of eight days of shooting, which is higher than the average, despite the lower than the average salary.

Sources say similar models are traditionally used for the anthology and roles of "Crime of the Week" in shows such as Fox's "Defendant", "Elsbet" and "Poker Face" of Peacock, where guest roles have a fixed salary related to them that is consistent during the season. But if this model had to be expanded, it could radically resort how the actors are paying for its work on television, which was traditionally one of the safest ways to make a living in the industry.

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In all the examples listed above, the show's leadership is not tied to a salary, while their support and re -team are. In a world where the studio produces fewer emissions with less episodes and lower budgets, this model threatens to create a two -level future for Hollywood, where the name talent becomes part of the privileged 1% capable of negotiating their fair share in the profit of the show, with everyone else struggling for a constant number. If you do not accept the salary offered, production will simply move to someone else.

In the words of one representative quoted by "Deadline": "It is more about the budget than for the person." Let's hope this model remains quarantine in the emergency room.

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