First of all: I'm terribly sorry if this has already been posted. I tried looking for it and used the search feature, but it came up blank.

I was wondering if anybody knows for what amount of time Nathan & Stana's contracts are going.

The reason: I'm also a SVU-fan, but with all the drama going on around the lead actors with expiring contracts and not renewing it, evil TPTB and a failing showrunner/team of writers, that killed off a lot of my fun.

Since Castle is the only series that hasn't let me down so far, I've gotten quite anxious about when Nathan and Stana's contracts are up for possible renewal. Does anybody know for what amount of time their contracts were signed? Or should we be getting worried about those aswell?

Thanks in advance!

I think nobody here wants to know the contract word for word because that's really personal information, but the length of it shouldn't be a problem. For example Thomas Gibson from Criminal Minds, his contract is renewed for 2 more years, you can read it everywhere on the web. I don't know if it's ok for him but sometimes you can't hide such things when you're famous. Despite everything we've to respect their privacy, so if there's no information available we've just bad luck.

@BEBU and MissWanderer, thank you, that's exactly what I meant!
I really don't need to know any details about the contract, but it would be nice to have some indication about it's length so we know for how long we don't have to wonder if they will still be there for the next season (and I know they will be there for season 4, but I'm talking about in the long run).

Like I said, with SVU there's been a lot of anxiety among fans because the contracts were very short, so each time we had to go through the "will they quit the show or still be there next season" thing, until it eventually all exploded and we lost one of the lead characters and are on the verge of losing the other one next year after season 13 :(

I just hope we can enjoy the main cast of Castle for a long time, but I can't help but be slightly anxious about it lol.

KalliopePL said:

halaci said:

General length of the first contract is for 7 seasons, probably this is the case with Castle as erll.

7? 5 seasons contract seems to me much more probable and then a renewal discussions.

I read somewhere and would have to search again to track it down, but the first contract for a tv show (and it's principals) is usually 3 years.  After that it is anyone's game.  Could be renewed year by year or 20 years if they want.

I recall it use to be 7 year start up contracts with renegotiation at 5 years (this was back in 70's and 80's Paid more attention back then).  Also in one of the last TV guides they had the highest paid actors and Nathan was listed at $100,000 per esp but none of the rest of the cast was listed (went down to $35,000 per esp) so they all receive less then the $35,000 so if they renegotiates there could be a lot of raises in store which means more expense to ABC. Who knows what will happen after S4 going into S5 as TPTB may want to hook up Nathan and Stana to longer term contracts.  As long as the ratings stay up then we should be good to go but TV is a very fickal business.  Guess we will have to wait and see. 

Just one note to the per episode salary lists: those are never full. Not everybody gives out these details. The higher the salary it's obviously more publicised partly because it has a news value partly because it is the interest of the actors, preparing the grounds for their next negotiations. In the "average" category one can decide to show it ("look how worthy I became"), or just the opposite, hide it if they feel they could get a significantly higher salary based on the current success. (Plus of course there can be a lot of people who thinks it's none of our business.) A lot of well known names are missing from the lists from the lower categories, so just because Stana was not on it, it doesn't mean she gets less than 35k.