"Grey's Anatomy" players score $200,000 bonuses

By Nellie Andreeva
Fri Jun 2, 3:07 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After a red-hot second season, the
"Grey's Anatomy" cast is getting a little extra green from the show's
producer.

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Enjoy the money while it last. Since the writers blew up the show in a
season and a half, it will burn out like C in C -only not quite as quickly.

Sources said Touchstone Television recently handed out $200,000 bonuses
to each of the show's principal cast members, including Ellen Pompeo,
Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh, Katherine
Heigl, Chandra Wilson, Isaiah Washington, Justin Chambers and Kate
Walsh.

But sources close to key cast members say the bonus is not likely to
head off pressure from the actors for the Disney-owned studio to
renegotiate their original series deals at a higher pay rate in light
of the show's meteoric ratings spike this past season. Indeed, ABC
hopes the medical drama will reinvigorate the network's fortunes on
Thursday with its bold move of the show to the 9 p.m. slot in the fall.

Touchstone TV, which declined comment on the "Grey's" bonuses, has a
history of giving cash bonuses to the ensemble casts of its hit series.
In early 2005, the studio rewarded the principal cast members of
"Desperate Housewives" with bonuses said to be about $250,000 each four
months into the run of the show. The "Desperate Housewives" actors also
received salary bumps. Meanwhile, in January, the "Lost" gang received
salary increases, with Matthew Fox also getting a bonus.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter