Here’s How Much Actors are Really Get Paid For Reruns, It’s Crazy!

Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance & William Frawley – I Love Lucy, $4K per episode & complete rights

I Love Lucy is one of the last black and white series that aired on CBS, ending in 1957. As the show was a huge success, decades later, the sitcom still has its reruns on CBS and reportedly, it is earning big money to the network’s executives. According to some sources, I Love Lucy is raking in $20 million annually, though, at the time that the show was airing, each actor was reportedly receiving a paycheck of $4K per episode. Lucille Ball, who played the main character in the show, died back in 1989.

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