According to Variety, the last hurdle to TBBT getting a two-season renewal is finalizing the contracts for Mayim Bialik (Amy Farrah Fowler) and Melissa Rauch (Bernadette Rostenkowski). The actresses both joined the CBS show in Season 3 and became series regulars in Season 4. Their characters have had more screen time recently, with Amy as Sheldon's (Parsons) live-in girlfriend and Bernadette married to Howard (Helberg).
Sources told Variety the five original stars offered to take a salary cut of $100,000 for the prospective 11th and 12th seasons to free up $500,000 raises for Bialik and Rauch. The actresses are currently said to make in the $200,000-per-episode range, compared to their co-stars $1 million-an-episode.
All of this $$$ talk is way out of the leagues of The Rest Of Us, but TBBT's big piles of cash will be going somewhere, so you could argue they should go to the stars who have been asked to do increasing amounts of work over the years to keep the show such a hit.
"The Big Bang Theory" Season 10 airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
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