Per Entertainment Weekly: Fox, in keeping alive the corpse of That ’70s Show following the exit of the inexplicably popular Ashton Kutcher and, far worse, Topher Grace (an actor with possibly the deftest comedy chops of his generation), has offered co-star Danny Masterson a 15 Million Dollar salary to return for the series’ final year. I repeat: $15,000,000.
Trying to keep something as delicately balanced as an ensemble series going after key players leave (or die, as with Phil Hartman in the until-then superlative New Radio) almost never works. I’m sure Masterson appreciates it, though.
