Subject: Re: Various Info.
From: giovin@medr3.ecs.umass.edu (Rocky J Giovinazzo)
Date: 1991-06-12, 19:40
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <P2XF43w164w@darkside.com> mikul@darkside.com (Bronze Tooth) writes:

> >Also, don't be holding on to your breath about Twin Peaks being picked
> >up by Fox (tm) or some other cable channel.   Twin Peaks sported a 
> >crew of over 250 which, salaryWise, is unatainable by anyone other
> >than a major network.    This isn't Airwolf, ya'know.

I'm not an expert on this, but my understanding is that Twin Peaks is
produced by Lynch/Frost productions and sold to ABC at some price that
both ABC and L/F productions agreed upon.  If L/F decide to hire 10 new
people for their crew, they don't go to ABC to ask about it, they just
cover their costs however they can.  In other words, a network's ability
to carry a show is not dependent on the salaries of 250 people but
rather is dependent on whatever price a show is set at.  (Of course,
this price per episode is probably high for TP anyway.)

Rocky Giovinazzo